or any of them," among those officers being "the bishops and archdeacons of Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay."

Sect. 3. "It shall be lawful for the Secretary of State in Council of India from time to time to fix and alter the salaries, and to fix, alter, or abolish the allowances of the bishops and archdeacons of Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay, or any of them: Provided that nothing in this section shall affect the salary or allowances of any person who is such bishop or archdeacon at the passing of this Act."

6 Geo. 4, c. 87.

Provision for support of

churches, &c.,

in foreign places where chaplain appointed; consuls may advance a

amount

subscribed.

CHAPTER V.

CHURCHES ATTACHED TO CONSULSHIPS.

6 GEO. 4, c. 87, an act which regulates the payments of salaries and allowances to British consuls at foreign ports, and the disbursements at such ports for certain public purposes, contains various provisions relating to churches and chaplains attached to consulships. For by that act the whole management of the funds and the regulation of the expenditure is under the control of the consul-general or consul, and not of the ambassador; and, by a strange anomaly, if there should be any foreign court where there is an ambassador and not a consul-general or consul, there is no legislative provision for any chaplain at all.

Sect. 10 recites, "And whereas churches and chapels for the performance of divine service, according to the rites and ceremonies of the united church of England and Ireland, . . . have been erected, and proper grounds have been appropriated and set apart for the interment of the dead, in divers foreign ports and places, and chaplains have been appointed for the performance of divine service in the said churches and chapels, and are now sum equal to resident in such foreign ports and places;" and enacts "that at any foreign port or place in which a chaplain is now, or shall at any future time be, resident and regularly employed in the celebration of divine service, according to the rites and ceremonies of the united church of England and Ireland, . . . and maintained by any voluntary subscription or rate, levied among or upon his majesty's subjects resorting to or residing at such foreign port or place, or by any rate or duty levied under the authority of any of the acts hereinafter repealed, it shall and may be lawful for any consul-general or consul, in obedience to any order for that purpose issued by his Majesty through one of his principal secretaries of state, to advance and pay from time to time, for and towards the maintenance and support of any such chaplain as aforesaid, or for and towards defraying the expenses incident to the due celebration of divine service in any such churches and chapels, or for and towards the maintaining any such burial grounds as aforesaid, or for and towards the interment of any of his Majesty's subjects in any such burial grounds, any sum or sums of money, not exceeding in any one year the amount of the sum or sums of money, which during that year may have been raised at such port or place for the said

secretary of

several purposes or any of them, by any such voluntary subscription or rate as aforesaid; and every such consul-general or Consuls to consul shall, once in each year, transmit to one of his Majesty's transmit to principal secretaries of state an account, made up to the thirty-state annual first day of December in the year next preceding, of all the sums accounts of of money actually raised at any such port or place as aforesaid, money raised. for the several purposes aforesaid, or any of them, by any such voluntary subscription or rate as aforesaid, and of all sums of money by him actually paid and expended for such purposes, or any of them, in obedience to any such orders as aforesaid, and which accounts shall by such principal secretary of state be transmitted to the lord high treasurer, or the commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for the time being, who shall give to any such consul-general or consul as aforesaid credit for all sums of money not exceeding the amount aforesaid, by them disbursed and expended in pursuance of any such order as aforesaid, for the purposes before mentioned, or any of them."

contributions

where consuls

a sum equal

butions.

Sect. 11. "In case any of his majesty's subjects shall by Where voluntary subscriptions among themselves raise and contribute voluntary such a sum of money as shall be requisite for defraying one-half towards erectpart of the expense of erecting, purchasing or hiring any church ing churches, or chapel or building, to be appropriated for the celebration of hospitals, or providing divine service according to the rites and ceremonies of the united burial church of England and Ireland, . . . or for defraying one-half grounds, in part of the expense of erecting, purchasing or hiring any build- any place ing to be used as a hospital for the reception of his Majesty's are resident, subjects, or for defraying one-half of the expense of purchasing such consuls or hiring any ground to be used as a place of interment for his may advance majesty's subjects at any foreign port or place wherein any to amount of consul-general or consul appointed by his Majesty shall be resi- such contrident, then and in any such case it shall and may be lawful for such consul-general or consul, in obedience to any order to be for that purpose issued by his Majesty through one of his principal secretaries of state, to advance and pay, for and towards the purposes aforesaid, or any of them, any sum or sums of money not exceeding in the whole in any one year the amount of the money raised in that year by any such voluntary contribution as aforesaid; and every such consul-general or consul as Annual aforesaid shall in like manner once in every year transmit to one transmitted to of his Majesty's principal secretaries of state an account, made secretary of up to the thirty-first day of December in the year next preceding, state. of all the sums of money actually raised at any such port or place as aforesaid, for the several purposes aforesaid, or any of them, by any such voluntary subscription as aforesaid, and of all sums of money by him actually paid and expended for such purposes or any of them, in obedience to any such orders as aforesaid, and which accounts shall by such principal secretary of state be transmitted to the lord high treasurer, or to the lords commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury, for the time being, who

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accounts

His Majesty's approbation

be first obtained.

shall give to such consuls-general or consuls credit for all sums of money not exceeding the amount aforesaid, by him disbursed and expended in pursuance of any such order as aforesaid, for the purposes before mentioned or any of them."

Sect. 12. ". . . . no such order shall be issued as aforesaid through any of his Majesty's principal secretaries of state, authorizing the expenditure of money for the erection, purchase or hiring of any such new church or chapel or hospital as aforesaid, or for the purchase or hiring of any such new burial ground as aforesaid, unless and until such consul-general or consul shall first have transmitted to his Majesty, through one of his Majesty's principal secretaries of state, the plan of such intended church or chapel, hospital or burial ground, with an estimate, upon the oath of some one or more competent person or persons, stating the probable expense of and incident to the erection, purchase or hiring of any such church, chapel, hospital or burying ground as aforesaid, and unless and until his Majesty shall have signified, through one of his said principal secretaries of state, his approbaProviso as to tion of the said plan and estimate: Provided also, that no money an actual dis- shall actually be disbursed by any such consul-general or consul as aforesaid, for any of the purposes aforesaid, unless and until the money to be raised by any such voluntary subscription as aforesaid be actually paid up and invested in some public or other sufficient security, in the joint names of such consul-general or consuls and two trustees appointed for that purpose by the persons subscribing the same, or unless and until two or more of such subscribers shall enter into good and sufficient security to his Majesty, by bond or otherwise, that the amount of such subscriptions shall actually be paid for the purposes aforesaid, by a certain day to be specified in every such bond or security, and which bond or security shall be preserved in the office of such consul-general or consul, and shall by him be cancelled and delivered back to the parties entering into the same, their heirs, executors or administrators, when and so soon as the condition thereof shall be fully performed and satisfied."

bursement of money by consul.

Salaries to

to exceed sums herein mentioned.

Sect. 13. 66

... the whole salary of any chaplain heretofore chaplains not appointed or to be appointed to officiate in any church or chapel in any foreign port or place in Europe, shall not exceed in the whole five hundred pounds by the year; or in any foreign port or place not in Europe, eight hundred pounds by the year: Provided also, that all such chaplains shall be appointed to officiate as aforesaid, by his Majesty, through one of his principal secretaries of state, and shall hold such their offices for and during his majesty's pleasure, and no longer."

Regulations Sect. 14. "All consuls-general and consuls appointed by his for meetings Majesty to reside and being resident at any foreign port or place of subscribers wherein any such church or chapel, or other place appropriated for the celebration of divine worship, or hospital, or any such burial ground as aforesaid, hath heretofore been or shall hereafter be erected, purchased or hired, by the aid of any voluntary

to churches, chapels, &c.

subscription or rates collected by or imposed upon his Majesty's subjects, or some person or persons for that purpose duly authorized by any writing under the hand and seal of any such consul-general or consul, shall, once at the least in every year, and more frequently if occasion shall require, by public advertisement, or in such other manner as may be best adapted for insuring publicity, convene and summon a meeting of all his Majesty's subjects residing at such foreign port or place as aforesaid, to be holden at the public office of such consul-general or consul, at some time, not more than fourteen days nor less than seven days next after the publication of any such summons; and it shall and may be lawful for all his Majesty's subjects residing or being at any such foreign port or place as aforesaid, at the time of any such meeting, and who shall have subscribed any sum or sums of money not less than twenty pounds in the whole, nor less than three pounds by the year, for or towards the purposes before mentioned, or any of them, and have paid up the amount of such their subscriptions, to be present and vote at any such meetings; and such consuls-general or consuls shall preside at all such meetings; and in the event of the absence of any such consuls-general or consuls, the subscribers present at any such meeting shall, before proceeding to the despatch of business, nominate one of their number to preside at such meeting; and all questions proposed by the consul-general, consul or person so nominated as aforesaid to preside in his absence, to any such meeting, shall be decided by the votes of the majority in number of the persons attending and being present thereat: and in the event of the number of such votes being equally divided, the consul-general, consul or person so presiding in his absence, shall give a casting vote."

establish

&c. subject to

shall transmit

same for his

Sect. 15. "It shall and may be lawful for any such general General meetmeeting as aforesaid to make and establish, and from time to ings may time, as occasion may require, to revoke, alter and render such rules for general rules, orders and regulations, as may appear to them to management be necessary for the due and proper use and management of of churches, such churches, chapels, hospitals and burial grounds as aforesaid, sanction of or for the proper control over and expenditure of the money consul, who raised by any such subscription as aforesaid, or otherwise in relation to the matters aforesaid, as may be necessary for carrying majesty's into execution the objects of this act, so far as relates to those approbation. matters, or any of them: Provided always, that no such rule, order or regulation as aforesaid shall be of any force or effect, unless or until the same shall be sanctioned and approved by the consul-general or consul for the time being, appointed by his Majesty to reside and actually resident at such foreign port or place; and provided also, that the same shall, by such consulgeneral or consul, be transmitted by the first convenient opportunity for his Majesty's approbation; and . . . it shall and may be lawful for his Majesty, by any order to be by him issued through one of his principal secretaries of state, either to confirm