BULLETINS. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE of JANUARY 1, At the Court at Buckingham-Palace, the 8th day of December 1840, PRESENT, The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. WHEREAS the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England have, in pursuance of an Act, passed in the last session of Parliament, intituled "An Act to carry into effect, with certain modifica"<tions, the fourth report of the Commissioners of "Ecclesiastical Duties and Revenues," duly prepared and laid before Her Majesty in Council a scheme, bearing date the seventeenth day of November one thousand eight hundred and forty, in the words and figures following, that is to say: "To the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. "We, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, in pursuance of an Act, passed in the last session of Parliament, intituled "An Act to carry "into 1841. B 66 into effect, with certain modifications, the fourth report of the Commissioners of Ecclesiastical "Duties and Revenues" have prepared, and now humbly lay before your Majesty in Council, the following scheme, respecting the disposal of the residence house attached to the tenth canonry in the Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of Christ, in Canterbury, in the precincts of the said church: "Whereas the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral Church of Canterbury have submitted to us a plan, duly approved by the Visitor of the said. church; which plan is in the words and figures following, that is to say: "Whereas by an Act, passed in the last session of Parliament, intituled "An Act to carry into effect, with certain modifications, the fourth report "of the Commissioners of Ecclesiastical Duties and "Revenues," it was enacted, that, so soon as conveniently might be, measures should be taken by the deans and chapters of the several cathedral and collegiate churches for the disposal of such residence houses then under their controul, and houses attached to any dignity, office, or prebend, in the precincts of the respective cathedral and collegiate churches as might no longer be required, in such way as they should deem fit, according to plans to be, from time to time, prepared by the respective chapters, and, when approved by the Visitors, submitted to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, and confirmed by the authority thereinafter provided; and whereas the residence house attached to the tenth prebend or canonry of the Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of Christ, Canterbury, in the precincts of the said church, is no longer required, the said prebend or canonry being vacant and suspended under the provisions of the said Act: 66 And whereas, by the Statutes of the said church, the Auditor, who, it is thereby provided, shall be also also Chapter Clerk, is required to be constantly resident within the precincts of the said church, and there is no other house within the said precincts which is or can conveniently be appropriated to the residence of such Officer, save the prebendal house above mentioned : "We, the Dean and Chapter of the said church, have, in pursuance of the said Act, proceeded to take measures for the disposal of the prebendal house aforesaid, and have agreed to appropriate the same, henceforth, as a residence for the Officer who, for the time being, shall hold the united offices of Auditor and Chapter Clerk; and we humbly submit such appropriation, as the most convenient plan for the disposal of the said house, to the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Visitor of the said Church, for the approval of his Grace, and to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, in order that the same may be confirmed, according to the provisions of the Act above mentioned. "In witness whereof we have hereunto set our common seal, the first day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty. 66 Approved by us, "W. Cantuar, Visitor, (Common Seal.)" "Lambeth-palace, 8th September 1840. "We therefore humbly recommend and propose to your Majesty in Council, that the said plan should be confirmed. "All which we humbly recommend and propose to your Majesty in Council. "In witness whereof we have hereunto set our common seal, this seventeenth day of November one thousand eight hundred and forty." And whereas the said scheme has been approved by Her Majesty in Council, now, therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her said Council, is pleased hereby to ratify the said scheme, and to order and direct, that the same, and every part thereof, shall take effect immediately from and after the time when this Order shall have been duly published in the London Gazette, pursuant to the said Act; and Her Majesty, by and with the like advice, is pleased hereby to direct, that this Order be forthwith registered by the Registrar of the diocese of Canterbury. C. C. Greville. St. James's, December 22, 1840. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland has been pleased to appoint the Reverend George Hulme, jun. M. A. to be Domestic Chaplain to His Royal Highness. In pursuance of the directions of an Act, passed in the twenty-fourth year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third, intituled "An Act "to repeal so much of two Acts, made in the tenth "and fifteenth years of the reign of His present "Majesty, as authorises the Speaker of the House " of Commons, to issue his warrant to the Clerk of " the Crown for making out writs for the election " of Members to serve in Parliament, in the manner "therein mentioned, and for substituting other pro“visions for the like purposes:" I do hereby give notice, that the death of Robert Ferguson, Esq. late a Member serving in this present Parliament for the burghs of Dysart, Kircaldy, Kinghome, and Burntisland, hath been certified to me in writing, under the hands of two Members serving in this present Parliament, and that I shall issue my warrant to the Clerk of the Crown to make out a new writ for the electing of a Member to serve in this present Parliament for the said burghs, at the end of fourteen days after the insertion of this notice in the London Gazette. Given under my hand the 31st of December 1840, CHARLES SHAW LEFEVRE, Speaker. |