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 Canons, Rules ,and Regulations 
 
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 Revised in 1892. 
 
 HALIFAX, N. S. : 
 
 HOLLOVVAY BROS., PRINTERS, 69 GRANVILLE ST., 
 
 1892. 
 
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 Original Declaration of Principles 
 
 (AnOPTKD OCTOBKR, 18M.) 
 
 We, tho Bishop and Clerg}', and Representatives of the 
 Laity of tho United Church of England and Ireland, within 
 the Diocese of Nova Scotia, assembled together, and intending 
 under God's blessing and guidance, to consider and determine 
 upon such matters as shall appear necessary for the welfare 
 of the Church in this Diocese, desire, in the t^rst place, for 
 the avoiding of all misunderstanding and scindal, to make 
 a declaration of the principles upon which we propose to- 
 ])roceed. 
 
 We desire tliat the Church in this colony may continue-, 
 as it has been, an integral portion of the United Church of 
 England and Ireland, 
 
 We recognize the true Canon of Holy Scriptures, as re- 
 ceived by that Church, to be the rule and standard of faith ; 
 we acknowledge the Book of Common Prayer and Sacra- 
 ments, together with the Thirty-nine Articles of Religion^ 
 to be the true and faithful declaration of the doctrines con- 
 tained in Holy Scriptures ; we maintain the form of Church 
 Government by Bishops, Priests, and Deacons as Scriptural 
 and Apostolical ; and we declare our firm and unaniaious 
 resolution, in dependence on Divine aid, to preserve those 
 doctrines and that form of Church Government, and to- 
 transmit them to our posterity. 
 
 We uphold the ancient doctrine of our Church, that the 
 Queen is rightly possessed of the chief government or su- 
 premacy over all persons within her dominions, in all causes 
 whether ecclesiastical or civil ; and we desire that such 
 suprenuicy may continue unimpaired. 
 
 It is our earnest wish and determination to confine our 
 deliberations and actions to matters of discipline, to the 
 teinporalities of the Churcli, and to such regulations of order 
 as may tend to Her efficiency and extension. 
 
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CONSTITUTION OF SYNOD. 
 
 1. Periodical meetings shall be held, composed of the 
 Bishop, Clergy and Laity of this Diocese ; and their assembly, 
 constituted as hereftfter provided, shall be called "The Dio- 
 cesan Synod of Nova Scotia." 
 
 2. Every Clergyman in the Dioce.se, duly licensed by the 
 Bishop, shall have a seat in the Synod, Presbyters alone 
 having the right of voting. The Laity shall appear by their 
 Representatives. 
 
 3. An election of Representatives shall take place at the 
 Easter meeting held in each Parish or Ecclesiastical ])istrict 
 next before each ordinary meeting of the Synod, and on the 
 same <lay in each District, which may be entitled to elect 
 Representatives under Clause 9. Within 30 days after 
 election the Chairman shall send the names of the Repre- 
 sentatives to the Lay Secretary. The Parishes shall have 
 the liberty of choosing their Representatives from any part 
 of the Diocese. 
 
 The following Resolution was adopted at the Eighth 
 Session: — 
 
 " That attention be directed to tlie difficulty which has arisen in some 
 cases in consequence of the election of the same person by two or more 
 Parishes, and that the Chairman of every meeting at which a non-resident 
 may be elected should take care to communicate the election immediately 
 to the person so elected, with a request that he will state without delay 
 •whether he can undertake to perform the duties of the office to which he 
 has been appointed." 
 
 4. In any Parish or Mission where in consequence of a 
 vacancy in the incumi^ency or the absence of the minister, 
 no Easter meeting has been held, it shall be lawful for the 
 Church Wardens, or three membei's of the Ve.stry, to sum- 
 mon a meeting, giving due notice of the same, for the [jur- 
 pose of electing Representatives for the next Session of the 
 Diocesan Synod. 
 
 5. At the regular election of Synodical Representatives 
 provisional Representatives may be elected. 
 
 G. The Representatives of the Laity must be at least 
 twenty-one years of age, having been communicants for the 
 twelve months preceding the election : and every adult male 
 parishioner may vote for the Parish or District of which he 
 
'd of the 
 The J)io- 
 
 IH a incinher upon subscribing the following dt'olamtion (if 
 rtMjuiied by the Chairman or any parishioner present) : "I 
 do declare that I am a member of the Church of England 
 and belong to no other religious denomination." 
 
 7. Kach Representative shall receive from his Minister 
 a certificate that he is qualified as above, and frotn the 
 Chairman of the meeting at which he is elected, a certificate 
 of his (ilection.and shall continue in office until his successor 
 h'i appointed. 
 
 NoTK. — At the Second Session the Synod resolved that the words " Ids 
 Minister," in the above clause, shall mean the Minister from whom he re- 
 ceives the Holy Communion, or any Clergyman of the Church of England 
 who can certify that he is a communicant. 
 
 8. If a vacancy should occur in the number of Repre- 
 sentatives, the minister shall proceed to appoint a new 
 election with as little delay as possible after due notice ; an<i 
 in case there be no Minister, then the Church Wardens or 
 three members of the Vestry, or if there be no Wardens or 
 Vestry, then any five parishioners may summon a meeting 
 to HI! up the vacancy. 
 
 9. Each Parish or district within a Parish that may have 
 been placed under the charge of a Clergyman other than the 
 Rectoi may send tw(j Representatives. 
 
 10. Each Parish or district represented in this Synod shall 
 be assessed tor the purposes of this Synod. The Finance 
 Committee, one member of which shall be a representative 
 of a pai-ish or district in Prince Edwards Island shall, subject 
 t(j the supervision of the Executive committee, be the 
 assessment committee. The assessment shall be made early 
 in each year in which a regular meeting of the Synod 
 is to be held and communicated to the Rector or officiating 
 Minister of each parish or district not less than four weeks 
 before Easter. The amount assessed shall be due and shall 
 be remitted to the Treasurer of Synod imine<liately after 
 the Easter Meeting; and no Repre.sentative shall be allowed 
 to take his seat at the ensuing Session of the Synod until 
 the sum so assessed shall have been paid, together with any 
 arrears that may thereafter become <lue. 
 
 11. The Chairman at the meeting in each Parish for the 
 election of Repre.sentatives to the Synod shall, upon the 
 election of such representatives, forthwith transmit? to the 
 
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 Lay Secretary the certificate of electiun and also the certi- 
 ficate of (]ualification. 
 
 The Treasurer and the Lay and Clerical Secretaries simll 
 be a Standing Counnitiee on Credentials, whose duty it shall 
 be to examine such certificates, and also ascertain what 
 Parishes, if any, have not paid the assessment for which 
 they have been respectively liable, and report thereon to the 
 Bishop on the day before the duy of the meeting of the 
 Synod. Said report to contain the names of those Representa- 
 tives only whose qualifications have been completed five days 
 before the meetintif ot the Syno<l. The Bishop shall, immedi- 
 ately upon the opening of the Synod, lay such report upon 
 the table. 
 
 If any objection be made to such report on behalf of any 
 pel son claiming seats in the Synod as lay representatives, 
 the same shall be referred to a Special Committee on Creden- 
 tials of seven members, of which the Standinsr Committee on 
 Credentials shall be c.t; o^ci.) members, togeth;.r with four 
 lay members, whose right to a seat in the Synod is un- 
 questioned. 
 
 No representative whose right to a seat in the Synod is 
 questioned, shall be a mend^er of or vote for members of the 
 Special Connnittee on Credentials. 
 
 In case the certificates of election and qualification have 
 •not been transmitted as hu.ein before provided, the Synod 
 may, for good and sufficient cause, permit an_^'^ representative 
 at any time to take his seat who produces sufficient proof of 
 election and qualification. When the precedence of pro- 
 visional Representatives is not regulated by the certificate of 
 tappointment it shall be regulated as follcjws : 
 
 If more than one person is named in any certificate, then 
 in the order in winch they are named. 
 
 If there is more than one certificate, then according to the 
 Alphabetical order of the initials of the surnames. 
 
 When a provisional Representative shall have been called 
 and taken his seat, he shall retain it during the se.ssion to tlie 
 exclusion of the regular Representative ; but if the Synod 
 adjourns for over a week, the Representatives shall be 
 entitled to take their seats after the adjournment as at the 
 commencenient of a new session. 
 
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 12. The quorum re(|nired to constitute a Session of the 
 Synod shall consist of not less than one-fourth of the whole 
 number of qualified Presbyters in the Diocese, and of the 
 Lay Representatives whose election shall have been certified 
 to the Lay Secretary ; but no vote of the Synod shall be 
 taken unless in the presence of at least three-fourths of those 
 forming the (juorum, with the Bishop or his commissary 
 presiding. 
 
 13. The vote of each order shall be taken separately, 
 such vote being determined by the majority of the members 
 present and voting in each order. And no act or resolution 
 of the Diocesan Synod shall be valid which shall not have 
 received the concurrent consent of the Bishop, the Clergj^ 
 and the Laity. 
 
 NoTK. —At the Second Session the Synod resolved thiit all the membera 
 of the Synod present be rec^uired to vote on every ({uestioD. 
 
 14. The Clergy being under the obligation implied in 
 their subscription to the Thirty-nine Articles, it is not com- 
 petent for the Diocesan Synod to make alteration.s in those 
 formularies, or in the method of interpretation laid down in 
 the Declaration prefixed to the Thirty-nine Articles, or in 
 the Book of Common Prayer of the United Church of 
 England and Ireland, or finally in the authorized version of 
 the Holy Scriptures. With these exceptions, the Diocesan 
 Synod may deliberate and decide, by a majority of votes 
 taken as specified in Art. 13, on all matters affecting the 
 interests of the Church in the Diocese, 
 
 15. There shall bo two Secretaries — one chosen by the 
 Clergy, the other by the Laity — who shall keep regular 
 minutes of all proceedings of the Synod. 
 
 16. The ordinary meetings of the Synod shall be biennial, 
 but the Bishop (or in his absence the Archdeacon) shall have 
 power to snr. ..on additiona' meetings at his discretion. 
 The ordinary place of meeting shall be in the City of Halifax 
 but if an invitation be given from any town in the Diocese 
 by re.sidents of such town willing to make themselves re- 
 sponsible for the due accommodation of the Synod, and if the 
 accepting of such invitation be recommended by the Execu- 
 tive Committee the Synod shall be at liberty to accept it. 
 
 17. Any proposition for an alteration of the Constitution 
 or Canons shall be introduced in writing and considered at 
 
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 the meetinof at which it was proposed, and if approved by a 
 majoi'ity .shall lie over to the next meeting of the Synod, 
 and if tnen again approved by majorities consisting of not 
 less than two-thirds of both Clergy antl Lay Representatives 
 present and voting and by the Bishop, it shall be adopted ; 
 bnt no vote in confirmation of an alteration in the Constitu- 
 tions or Canons of the Synod shall be taken except at an 
 ordinary meeting of the Synod. An}^ proposition standing 
 over for confirmation which shall not have been brought 
 before the Synod for two consecutive regular sessions shall 
 lapse. 
 
 18. Members of the Church may be present at meetings 
 of the Synod, on the understanding that they must be sub- 
 ject to the directions of the Chairman ; and they must be 
 required by him to withdraw upon the application of any 
 three members of the. Synod. 
 
 19. 
 
 The Bishop is recommended by the Synod to adopt 
 the following Declaration, suggested by the Lambeth 
 Conference : — 
 
 Declaration to he made (in addition to any declaration 
 required by the rides of the Province or Diocese as to 
 doctrine and worship) by persons to be admitted to Holy 
 Orders, and by Clergymen to be adAiiitted to the ciire of 
 souls, or to any other ofice or trust in the Church : 
 
 " I, A. B., do declare that I consent to be bound by aU the 
 rules and regul.<,tions which have heretofore beer made, or 
 which may from time to time be aiade by the Synod of the 
 Diocese of and the Provincial Synod of 
 
 or eithev of them [and in consideration of being appointed 
 I hereby undertake immediately after final 
 judgment to resign the said appointment, together with all 
 the rights and emoluments appertaining thereto, if sentence 
 re(|uiring such resignation should at any time be passed 
 upon me, after duo examination held by the tribunal ap- 
 pointed by the Synods of the aforesaid Province and Diocese 
 for the trial of a clergyman ; saving all rights of appeal."] 
 
 [The part in brackets to be omitted when there is no 
 appointment to a cure of souls, or office, or trust.] 
 
 20. Every Parish or Mission in the Diocese is expected 
 to make at least an annual ofiTering both to its Home and 
 
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 'entatives 
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 Foreign Missions ; and not later than on the second day of 
 each Session of this Synod, at such hour as the Bishop or 
 Chairman shall see fit, the Secretary shall read out the 
 names of all parishes and Missions, with the amount (if any) 
 paid by them into the respective Treasurer's hands. 
 
 21. The following regulations shall be observed in the 
 election of Delegates to the Provincial Synod : — 
 
 If more than the required number of delegates has been 
 nominated, then the Clergy shall ballot for the Clerical Del- 
 egates and the Laity for the Lay Delegates. The required 
 number of candidates havini; the highest number of votes 
 shall then be put — the Clerical Delegates to the Laity and 
 vice versa ; and each Order must accept or reject the election 
 of the other as a whole. 
 
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 lambeth 
 
 The Substitutes shall be elected in the .same way, after 
 the declar.vtion of the names of the Delegates elect. 
 
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 ORDER OF PROCEEDINGS. 
 
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 1. The business of every day shall be preceded by 
 special prayer for the Divine guidance and blessing accord- 
 ing to a form authorized by the Bi.shop. 
 
 2. On the first day of the Session, after this prayer, 
 the Bishop shall lay on the table the report of the Com. 
 mittee on Credentials. 
 
 3. The Clerical Secretary shall call over the roll of the 
 Clergy, to be furnished by the Bishop, and the Lay Secre- 
 tary shall call over the list of Parishes and Districts entitled 
 to send Representatives when the names of the Clergy 
 and Laity present shall be marked by their respec*:ive 
 Secretarie.s. 
 
 4. The election of new Secretaries .shall then be made by 
 the Clergy and Laity respectively, which ofiicers shall hold 
 their offices until their successors .shall be appointed. 
 
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 The appointment of the Lay Secretary shall be a 
 permanent one and he need not be a member ot the Synod. 
 
 5. The order of business shall be as follows : — 
 
 Reeding, correcting and approving the minutes of the 
 previous meeting. 
 
 Appointing Committees. 
 
 Presenting, reading and referring memorials and petitions. 
 
 Presenting reports of Committees. 
 
 Giving notices of motions. 
 
 Taking up unfinished busine.ss. 
 
 Consideration of motions. 
 
 6. All notices of motion given by a Presbyter or a 
 Representative of the Laity for proceeding at a subsequent 
 meeting, shall be read over at such meeting, and may be 
 taken up by any member present at such meeting, in the same 
 manner as if he had himself given the notice. 
 
 7. Before the final adjournment of the Session the 
 minutes of the last day shall be read and approved. 
 
 RULES FOR THE PRESERVATION OF ORDER. 
 
 1. When the Bishop or other person presiding has taken 
 the chair, no member shall continue .standing. 
 
 2. When any member is about to speak for the infor- 
 mation of the Synod, he shall an.se and address himself to the 
 Chair. 
 
 3. No motion or amendment shall beconsidereil as before 
 the Synod (excepting such as may be proposed by the Bishop 
 or Committee ) unless seconded and reduced to writing. 
 Every member giving notice of a motion may at the same 
 time announce the name of the person by whom it shall be 
 .seconded. 
 
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 4. No member shall speak more than twice on the same 
 question without asking and receiving permission- from the 
 Chair.* 
 
 5. When a question is under consideration no other 
 motion shall be received unless to adjourn, to lay it on the 
 table, to postpone it to a certain time, to postpone it indefin- 
 itely, to commit it, to amend it, or to divide it ; and motions 
 for any of these purposes shall have precedence in the order 
 here named. 
 
 6. Motions to adjourn, or to lay on the i/able shall be 
 -<3ecided without debate. 
 
 7. When a motion has been read to the Synod by the 
 Secretary, it cannot be withdrawn by the mover without the 
 consent of the Synod. 
 
 8. Each member shall have the right to require at any 
 period of the debate that a question in discussion be read 
 for his information. 
 
 9. A member called to order whilst speaking shall sit 
 down unless permitted to explain. 
 
 10. All questions of order shall be decided by the 
 Chair. 
 
 11. All amendments to a motion shall be considered in 
 the order in which they are moved. 
 
 12. When a proposed amendment is under considera- 
 tion no amendment to such amendment shall be in order ; 
 yet a substitute tor the whole matter may be proposed and 
 received, provided it deals directly with the subject in hand. 
 
 13. All amendments to any question shall be decided 
 on before the question or motion On which they arise is pro- 
 posed for deci.sion. 
 
 14. A resolution proposed for confirnirttion cannot be 
 amended, but must be accep'ad cr rejected as a whole. 
 
 *The following resolution has been adopted at each of the late sessions : 
 — •• No member of the Synod shall occupy the time of the house for more 
 than ten minutes in any one address, except the mover and seconder of a 
 motion, who shall be allowed twenty minutes. 
 
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 15. Whilst any (|ue.stion is being put from the chair 
 the members shall continue in their seats, and shall not hold 
 any private discourse ; and when a motion is so put, no 
 member shall retire until such motion is disposed of. 
 
 16. In voting, those who vote in the affirmative shall 
 first rise, and then those who vote in negative. , 
 
 17. A question being once determined shall not again 
 be drawn into discussion in the same Session without the 
 special sanction of the Bishop. 
 
 18. No protest or dissent shall be entered on the 
 minutes of the proceedings ; but when recjuired by any one 
 member, the number of affirmative and negative votes shall 
 be recordeil. 
 
 19. When the Synod is about to rise, every member 
 shall keep his seat until the Bishop or other person presiding 
 has left the chair. 
 
 20. Unless called upon by any member of the Synod, 
 to do so, it shall not be the duty of the Chairman of the 
 House, to ascertain the number of Clergy or Lay Represen- 
 tatives present. 
 
 RULES REGARDING COMMITTEES. 
 
 1. The names of members of Committees shall be pro- 
 posed by any members of the Synod, and if no more than the 
 number" of members of such Committee be proposed, then 
 that shall be such Committee, but if a greater number, then 
 a ballot shall be tuken for such Committee. 
 
 2 The reports of Committees shall be in writing, 
 signed by the chairman, and shall be received in course. 
 
 3. The chairman of the Couiinittee. or some member 
 deputed by him, shall explain to the Synod the bearing of 
 any portion of the report, if recjuested by any member of 
 the Synod. 
 
 4. All reports of Committees reconmiending any action 
 or expre-ssion of opinion shall be accompanietl by a resolution 
 for the action of the Synod thereon. 
 
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 le Synod, 
 'in of the 
 Ele pre.se n- 
 
 L'( 
 
 l)e pro- 
 lan the 
 then 
 I', then 
 
 ntiny, 
 
 |se. 
 
 Miiber 
 ng' of 
 )er of 
 
 ction 
 ition, 
 
 o. It shall be imperative for all Committees appointed 
 at any Session of the Synod to report at its next Session, 
 and not later, unless by consent of the Synod a longer time 
 to do so be granted. 
 
 6. All vacancies in Committees having charge of trust 
 funds shall be filled by the Synod and the Synod shall have 
 
 power to remove from such Committees any members for 
 ■cause deemed sufficient by the Synod. 
 
 A list of nominations of members to fill such vacancies 
 shall be prepared by a Committee of seven appointed by ttie 
 Synod, and laid on the table at the first meeting or opening 
 •iay of the Synod. 
 
 All other committees shall be appointed at each meeting 
 of the Synod. 
 
 7. The Committee on Education .shall report at every 
 regular Meeting of the Synod on the general condition of the 
 •^educational establishment in connection with the Church in 
 this Diocese especially Kings College and the Collegiate 
 School at Windsor. 
 
 8. Any Committee appointed by the Synod shall be 
 ^considere 1 a standing C'ommittee until discharged by the 
 usual vote. 
 
 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 
 
 Whereas, by the Act of the Provincial Legislature (26 
 Vic, Cap. 77), this Synod was incorporated with full power 
 to receive and hold real and personal estate, and to let, sell, 
 convey, or otherwise dispose of and manage the same or any 
 part thereof : — 
 
 I. The Powers thus granted shall be exercised by a 
 Committee consisting of the Bishop, nine Clerical and nine 
 Lay members of this Synod, to be called " The Executive 
 Committee." 
 
 II. At each ordinary meeting of the Synod the Clerical 
 and Lay member of the Committee whose names respectively 
 
14 
 
 shall stand at the head of the list shall go out of office, also 
 the Clerical and Lay member whose attendance shall have 
 been least frequent at the meetings of the Committee ; but 
 all such members shall be eligible for re-election. If any 
 vacancy shall occur between the Sessions of the Synod it 
 shall be tilled up by the Clerical or Lay members, as the 
 case may be, such nomination to be subject to the approval 
 of the Synod. 
 
 III. The Executive Committee may, at their discretion 
 accept on behalf of the Synod, real and personal estate to 
 be,at the dii«posal of the Synod, or to be held in trust for 
 any religious or charitable object, and may affix the corpo- 
 rate seal of the Synod to any document which they may be 
 recjuired to execute with respect to such property. 
 
 IV. The Execuiive Committee shall be also the Business 
 Committee of the Synod. They shall have their report 
 printed and circulated among the Clergy and Lay Represen- 
 tatives in the Diocese at least two weeks before the time 
 appointed for meeting of Synod. 
 
 V. The Executive Con)mittee shall publish in any 
 Church paper that may be established in the Diocese, at 
 least three months before each meeting of the Synod, the 
 business to be proposed by them. 
 
 ACT OF INCORPORATION 
 
 (Passed April 29, 1863.) 
 
 Whereas, it is deemed just and expedient to incorporate 
 the Diocesan Synod of the United Church of England an<\ 
 Ireland of this Province, for the purpose of enabling them 
 to hold, acijuire and manage real and personal estate for 
 religious purposes ; 
 
 Be it therefore enacted by the Governor, Council and. 
 Assembly, as follows : — 
 
 I. The Synod, consisting of the Bishop, Clergy, and 
 Representatives of the Laity of the United Church of Eng- 
 
 X 
 
15 
 
 • office, also 
 shalJ have 
 '"ittee ; but 
 '"• If any 
 ' Synod it 
 ers.as the 
 ' approval 
 
 tliscretion 
 I estate to 
 trust for 
 he corpo- 
 y may be 
 
 Business 
 |r report 
 ^epresen- 
 fche time 
 
 m any 
 
 ce.se, at 
 nod, the 
 
 )orate 
 and 
 
 them 
 for 
 
 and 
 
 and 
 
 land and Ireland in this Province shall be a body politic and 
 corporate by the name of " The Diocesan Synod of Nova 
 Scotia," and by that name may take, receive and hold real 
 and personal estate ; und may Ut, sell, convey or otherwise 
 dispose of and manage the same or any part thereof. 
 
 II. Nothing in this Act contained shall extend to abridge 
 •r affect in any way the rights or privileges of any person 
 or persons not being members of the said Synod, nor of any 
 corporations, nor shall extend in any manner to confer any 
 spiritual jurisdiction or ecclesiastical rights whatsoever upon 
 the said Synod or their successors. 
 
 An Act declaratory of the Act to Incorporate the Diocesan 
 Synod of Nova Scotia. 
 
 (Passed the 7th day of May, A. D., 1874.) 
 
 Section I. — Nothing in Chapter 77 of Acts 1863 to 
 interfere with property of Churches in the Diocese of Nova 
 Scotia. 
 
 Be it declared and enacted by the Governor, Council and 
 Assembly as follows : 
 
 I. Nothing in Chapter 77 of the Act of 1863, entitled 
 " An Act to Incorporate the Diocesan Synod of Nova Scotia," 
 shall be construed to interfere with, alter, or circumscribe 
 in any way the property, whether I'eal or personal, which 
 may now, or which may hereafter belong to the several 
 respective Parishes, Church Corporations or Church Congre- 
 gations in the Diocese of Nova Scotia, or other rights secured 
 to such Parishes, Corporations or Congregations, or any of 
 them, by any Act of the Legislature of this Province, or 
 otherwise howsoever. 
 
 An Act to amend the Act to Incorporate the Diocesan 
 Synod of Nova Scotia. 
 
 Be it declared and enacted by the Governor, Council and 
 Assembly as follows ; — 
 
 I. Notwithstanding anything contained in the Act to 
 
la 
 
 incorporate the Diocesan Synod of Nova Scotia, the Clergy 
 and Laity of the Church of England in the Province of 
 Prince Edward Island (who before the passing of such Act 
 ■of Incorporation were represented in the Synod of Nova 
 Scotia) may, so long as they continue to be under the juris- 
 diction of the Bishop of Nova Scotia, be admitted as mem- 
 bers of such incorporated Synod, and may enjoy and 
 exercise the same rights and privileges therein as the Clert^y 
 and Laity of the Church of England in this Province. 
 
 11 So much of Chapter 77 of the Acts of 1863, entitled, 
 " An Act to Incorporate the Diocesan Synod of Nova Scotia," 
 or of any other assisting enactment as is inconsistent with 
 this Act, is repealed. 
 
 A71 Act to constitute the Bishop of Nova Scotia a Ooi-por- 
 
 ation sole. 
 
 (Passed the 4th Day of April, A.D., 1876.) 
 
 Whereas, The Bishop of Nova Scotia has been consti- 
 tuteci a corporation sole by Royal Letters patent, and has 
 in that capacity received, held, and conveyed real estate : 
 
 Be it declared and enacted by the Governor, Council and 
 Assembly as follows: — 
 
 1. The present Bishop of Nova Scotia is, and he and his 
 successors in office duly elected or acknowledged by the 
 Sync^l ()f the Diocese of Nova Scotia, shall be a corporation 
 sole, with perpetual succession, retaining the name of the 
 Lord Bishop of Nova Scotia, heretofore used, and all real 
 estate conveyed to, or vested in the Bishop of Nova Scotia, 
 whether in trustor otherwise, .shall be ve.sted in the .said 
 corporation sole, subject to all existing trusts. 
 
 2. Nothing within this Act contained shall extend in 
 any manner to confer any spiritual jurisdiction or ecclesias- 
 tical rights whatsoever upon the said Episcopal corporation 
 hereby continued or created. 
 
tia, the Clergy 
 ' Province of 
 g of such Act 
 'no(i of Nova 
 'fJer the juris- 
 tfced as mern- 
 «njoy and 
 as the Clergy 
 covinee. 
 
 863, entitled, 
 'Ova Scotia," 
 "sistent with 
 
 -* « Oorpor- 
 
 876.) 
 
 en consti- 
 t, and has 
 estate : 
 
 'uncil and 
 
 e and his 
 by the 
 Iporation 
 of the 
 all real 
 Scotia, 
 'he said 
 
 |fcend in 
 Jle.sias- 
 >ration 
 
 17 
 
 CHURCH ACT. 
 
 (Passed in 1876, and Amended 1879.) 
 
 Be it enacted by the Governor, Council and Assembly as 
 follows : — 
 
 1. No person shall officiate as a Minister of the Church 
 of England within the Province of Nova Scotia but such as 
 shall be duly licensed or instituted to the cure of souls by 
 the Bishop of the Diocese, having previously subscribed to 
 such declarations of assent and conformity to the doctrines 
 and discipline of the Church of England as may be enjoined 
 in Englaud at the time of making such subscriptions, except 
 so far as they, or any cf them, may be contrary to or incon- 
 sistent with the Canons or Regulations of the Provincial or 
 Diocesan Synods. And no license or institution shall be 
 refused without the reasons therefore being duly signified 
 in writing and delivered to the applicant within three 
 months from the date of application for such license or letters 
 of institution. 
 
 2. The Pari-shes already established shall remain as here- 
 tofore, and when any church shall be erected for Divine 
 Service, according to the rites of the Church of England, the 
 Bishop of the Diocese may allot a district which snail be the 
 parish of such church. The Bishop may also divide and 
 sub-divide any Parish now established or hereafter to be 
 established ; but no Parish shall be divided or sub-divided 
 unless on the application of the majority of the parishioners 
 present at any public meeting of the Parish called for the 
 consideration of such a measure. 
 
 8. When any rectory shall be vacant a meeting of the 
 parishioners shall bo summoned either by the Church 
 Wardens or by any five parishioners, either by notice given 
 in the church, or churches if there be more than one, during 
 the time of Divine Service, or if there be no public service 
 in the Parish, then by notice aflixed to the door or doors of 
 the church or churches, such notice to be given in any case 
 not less than 15 nor more than thirty days before the day 
 of meeting, at which meeting a clergyman in full orders of 
 the Church of England, or of any branch of the Church of 
 
i 
 
 18 
 
 England, may be elected Rector by a majority of the parish- 
 ioners then present. A copy of the resolution containing the 
 name of the person elected shall be forthwith forwarded to 
 the Bishop, attested by the signatures of the Chairman and 
 two other parishioners ; and the Clergyman so elected, when 
 he shall have obtained the Bishop's Letters of Institution, 
 shall be inducted by the Bishop into the said Parish. If no 
 election be made within twelve months after the occurrence 
 of a vacancy, the Bishop shall be at liberty to appoint a 
 Rector 
 
 4. The Rector, or Clergyman officiating as Rector, and 
 the parishioners of every Parish, shall meet annually on 
 Monday in Easter week, notice of the hour and place of 
 meeting having been first given by the Rector or officiating 
 Clergyman, at which meeting two Church Wardens and 
 twelve Vestrymen shall be chosen by the parishioners, 
 and any parish business may be transacted. The Rector, 
 With the Church Wardens and Vestry so elected, in all mat- 
 ters connected with the Church and persons usually attend- 
 ing its services and ordinances within their respective 
 Parishes, shall have the like powers as they have heretofore 
 exercised in this Province. In the absence of the Rector, or 
 Clergyman officiating as Rector, or as a duly licensed Curate, 
 the parishioners may at any meeting elect their own Chair- 
 man. Where there are two or more churches in one Parish, 
 the congregation of each Church other than the Parish 
 Church may meet together annually to appoint two Chapel 
 Wardens, who, subject to the control of the Rector, Wardens 
 and Vestry, shall have the charge of said Church or Chapel ; 
 and the exercise of this right shall not mterfere with the 
 right of the parishioners included in the said congregation 
 or congregations, to take part in the Easter meeting for the 
 election of Church Wardens and Vestrymen for the whole 
 Parish. 
 
 5. If in consequence of a vacancy, or for any other reason 
 no Easter meeting shall be held in any Parish, the Church 
 Wardens and Vestry of the previous year shall continue in 
 office, provided that any Warden or Vestryman may resign 
 his office, by notice in writing sent to the Bishop or to his 
 Commissary administering the Diocese, who, upon the receipt 
 of any such resignation shall communicate the same to the 
 Parochial authoritie.s. In case of the refusal to act of any 
 person elected to the office of Church Warden or Vertryman, 
 
nty of the pansh- 
 'lon containing the 
 mth forwarded to 
 he Chairman and 
 n so elected, when 
 rs of Institution, 
 itl Parish. If no 
 er the occurrence 
 '^^ty to appoint a 
 
 ? as Rector, and 
 eet annually on 
 ir and place of 
 tor or officiating 
 » Wardens and 
 'e parishioners, 
 • The Rector,' 
 '<;ed, in all niat- 
 usually attend- 
 leir respective 
 'ave heretofore 
 the Rector, or 
 censed Curate, 
 »• own Chair- 
 in one Parish, 
 ^ the Parish 
 ,t two Chapel 
 tor, Wardens 
 ^1 or Chapel ; 
 •I'e with the 
 congregation 
 etingforthe 
 
 r' the whole 
 
 Ither reason 
 
 the Church 
 
 Continue in 
 
 lay resign 
 
 or to his 
 
 |he receipt 
 
 |nie to the 
 
 2t of any 
 
 [rtrynian. 
 
 
 19 
 
 or of any vacancy or of vacancies in either of the said offices 
 (l)y death or resignation) the vacancy or vacancies may be 
 filled at a meeting held at any time of the year, as hereafter 
 provided, after due notice.>s Either at the Easter meeting, /( 
 or if so ordered at the Easter Meeting, at a meeting of the 
 Vestry held not later than three weeks after the Parish 
 meeting or adjourned Parish meeting, the out-going Wardens 
 shall present their accounts, and shall transfer to the newly 
 elected Wardens the books and all documents, monies or 
 other property belonging to the Parish which shall be iu 
 their possession. 
 
 6. The Rector, Church Wardens and Vestry of each 
 Parish shall together be a body politic and corporate with 
 the style of " The Rector, Wardens and Vestry of the Parish. 
 
 of ," with power to sue and be sued, to receive grants 
 
 of real and personal estate for the use of the Church and all 
 Parish purposes, to improve the same and receive the rents 
 thereof for the like use, and with the approval of the Bishop 
 to sell and convey such real and personal property, and to 
 have a common seal and to make by-laws and regulations, 
 consistent with the laws of the Province, for the management 
 of the temporalities of the Church and the due and orderly 
 conducting of the affairs ; provided, nevertheless, that if at 
 any time the Parish be without a Rector the same rights and 
 privileges shall be vested in the Wardens and Vestry until 
 the appointment of a Rector, except so far as relates to the 
 permanent alienation of any property. All the real and per- 
 sonal property belonging to any Parochial corporation, shall 
 hereafter be and become vested in the Rector, Wardens and 
 Vestry of that Parish in their corporate capacity, subject 
 to any existing rights or trusts therein. 
 
 7. The outgoing Wardens of each Parish shall prepare 
 and submit to the annual meeting of parishioners, a return 
 of the property of the parochial corporation, whether real or 
 personal, and of all monies that may have been invested by 
 or on behalf of the corporation during such year, and a 
 schedule of the securities and the rate of interest upon which 
 such investments have been made, which return the incoming 
 Wardens shall within three weeks forward to the Registrar 
 of the Uiocese. And if at any time the Bishop has reason 
 to believe, in consequence of information received, that the 
 property of any Parish is not rightly administered, he may 
 institute legal proceedings against the corporation, or any 
 
 J. 
 
20 
 
 officers of the said Parish, throuj^h whose default or neglect 
 any loss may have been occasioned. 
 
 8. The following persons shall be entitled to vote at all 
 meetings of Parishioners of any Parish of the Church of 
 England : — 
 
 (1.) Men of full age who are, and who have been for not 
 less than six months, communicants in the said Parish. 
 
 (2.) Men of full age who are, members of the Church of 
 England, habitually attending the services thereof, within 
 the parish for which they claim to vote, except when tem- 
 porarily hindered by absence from their ordinary residence 
 or any other unavoidable impediment, such attendance hav- 
 ing commenced not less than three months previous to the 
 day of meeting, being pew-holders, or otherwise contributors 
 towards the funds for the maintenance of the ministrations 
 of the said Church of England, in any Church or Chapel, 
 subject to the control of the corporation of the said parish, 
 and who are not more than six months in arrears in respect 
 to such contributions. 
 
 Provided always that any person voting, may be required 
 by the chairman of the meeting or any parishioner present 
 to sign the following declaration ; — " I do declare that I am 
 a member of the Church of England, and belong to no other 
 religious denomination, and am qualified as required by 
 clause 2, section 8, of the Church Act." And also, when not 
 voting as a communicant, to produce a receipt or certificate 
 from the Church or Chapel Wardens, or one of them, or the 
 Vestry Clerk, showing that he is such pew-holder or contri- 
 butor, and that he is not more than six months in arrears 
 as aforesaid. 
 
 The parishioners may, from time to time, at any regular 
 annual parish meeting, define what contributions shall be 
 deemed necessary to qualify a person not a pew -holder to 
 vote at any subsequent meeting, and the mode and time of 
 payment of such definition of qualification shall not take 
 efiect at any meeting held within six months. 
 
 9. The Rector, or Clei'gyman officiating as such, and the 
 Church Wardens and Vestry, may meet for the transaction 
 •of business as often as occasion may require at the instance 
 of the Rector, or the Church Wardens, or on the requisition 
 of the majority of the Vestry, made to the Rector or Churcu 
 
It or neglect 
 
 » vote at all 
 I Church of 
 
 been for not 
 Parish. 
 
 e Church of 
 reof, within 
 
 when tein- 
 y residence 
 uiance hav- 
 ious to the 
 ontributors 
 inistrations 
 
 or Chapel, 
 mid parish, 
 s in respect 
 
 ^e required 
 ler present 
 
 that I am 
 to no other 
 quired by 
 
 when not 
 
 certificate 
 em, or the 
 
 or contri- 
 m arrears 
 
 ly regular 
 
 shall be 
 
 holder to 
 
 d time of 
 
 not take 
 
 1, and the 
 ansaction 
 instance 
 jquisitiojj 
 r Churcjj 
 
 21 
 
 Wardens, a majority of the whole number of members of 
 the Corporation being a (|uorum for the transaction of busi- 
 ness ; and; the Rector or Clergyman officiating as such, 
 Church Wardens, Vestry and Parishioners, may assemble for 
 business connected with the parish as often as it may be 
 considered necessary, either at the instance or upon the 
 application of the Rector, or Clergyman officiating as such, 
 or the Church Wardens, or the Parishioners, provided that 
 ten at least of the latter sign a recpiisition to that eti'ect, 
 notice of such meeting and of the business to be transacted 
 thereat having been given during Divine Service in the 
 Parish Church on some Sunday , at least thre e days pjeviousjy, 
 by the minister of the Parish, who shall give tbe req^red 
 notice whenever called upon as aforesaid, providefl that such 
 notice shall be placed in his hands in writing at least twenty- 
 four hours before the time of giving notice. 
 
 10. All engagements for the salary of a minister, or for 
 the temporary performance of Divine ministration shall be 
 made by the Church Wardens and Vestry, and any subscrip- 
 tion towards the payment of such salary, .)r other engage- 
 ment, may be sued for and collected by said Church Wardens. 
 
 11. No conveyance by lease or otherwise of any parson- 
 age held by a Minister of the Church of England shall be 
 valiil for a longer period than his own incumbency, and no 
 such conveyance of any property belonging to any Parish 
 or held by any Rect(n- in virtue of bis office shall be valid 
 for a longer period than as aforesaid, unless v/ith the con- 
 currence of the Church Wardens and Vestry expressed in 
 writing under their common seal, and in no case for a longer 
 period than twenty-one years ; but with the concurrence of 
 the Bishop, the Rector and the Church Wardens and Vestry 
 full and absolute sale and conveyance may be made of any 
 glebe land or other real estate belonging to the Parish, if the 
 same be thought for the interests thereof. 
 
 12. No person shall be elected a Church VVarden or 
 Vestryman who is not qualified to vote at a Church meeting 
 under Clause eight. 
 
 13. The Lord Bishop of Nova Scotia ma\' grant a license 
 to officiate as a Clergyman of the Church of England in this 
 Province to any person who shall have been admitted to the 
 order of Priest or Deacon by any Bishop of the Protestant 
 Episcopal Church in the United States of America, anything 
 
22 
 
 in the Act of the Imperial Parliament of the 26th year of 
 his late Majesty King George III, Cap. 84, to the contrary 
 notwithstanding. 
 
 14. Cap, 25 of 4th Series of the Revised Statutes is 
 hereby repealed. 
 
 CANONS OF THE DIOCESE OF NOVA SCOTIA. 
 
 CANON I. 
 
 RBGULATIONS FOR THE DISCIPLINE OF THE CLERGY. 
 
 PREAMBLE. 
 
 VVheke,iS, It is expedient to define the mode in which the power of the 
 Bishop shall be exercised ;— We, the Bishop, Cbrgy and Representatives of 
 the Laity of the Diocese of Nova Scotia, have agreed upon the following 
 Rules to be observed in order to secure a fair and impartial tribunal for the 
 trial of any Clergyman who may hereafter be charged with any offence 
 rendering him liable to any Ecclesiastical sentence. 
 
 I. — In every case of any Clerk in Holy Orders who may 
 be charged with any offence against the laws ecclesiastical, 
 or concerning whom there may exist scandal or evil report, 
 the Bishop shall, upon the written application in duplicate 
 of flsven male communicants of the Pansh in which the 
 accused resided, one of whom shall be named as Secretary, or 
 inay, if he shall think tit, of his own mere motion, issue a 
 Commission under his hand and seal to five Presbyters of 
 not less than seven years' standing, and the Commi.ssi jaers 
 so appointed, or any three ol them, shall inquire into the 
 truth of the charges alleged against the party accused as set 
 forth in their Commission, notice of the time and place of 
 such inquiry having been given to the party accused and to 
 the persons, if any, upon whose application or complaint the 
 commission may have been issued (through their Secietary), 
 not less than thirty days before the time appointeJ for the 
 commencement of the inquiry. 
 
 And in the course of such inquiry the Commissioners 
 shall receive all such evidence as may be tendered to them 
 whether for or against the party accused, and said evidence 
 shall be taken do vn by them in writing. 
 
23 
 
 le 26th year of 
 to the contiary 
 
 seel .Statutes 
 
 18 
 
 SCOTIA. 
 
 E CLKRGY. 
 
 the power of the 
 epresentativesof 
 »n the following 
 tribunal for this 
 'ith any offence 
 
 'rs who rnav 
 ccle.siastical, 
 e^'il report, 
 n duplicate 
 which the 
 eeretary, or 
 on. issue a 
 sbyters of 
 missij^iers 
 into the 
 used as set 
 ^ place of 
 <'<' and to 
 'laint the 
 ;cretaryX 
 ' ^or the 
 
 1 SSI oners 
 
 to them 
 
 t^'vidence 
 
 And the said Commissioners, or any three of them, shall 
 report in writing within 30 dayr? from the day of the date 
 of the hearing, unless they, or any three of them, shall by a 
 memorandum in writing extend such time, whether in the 
 opinion of the majority of those present there be or be not 
 sufficient prima facie ground for instituting further pro- 
 ceedings ; which report shall be accompanied by a copy of 
 the evidence upon which it is founded. 
 
 II. — And in all cases when the Commissioners or any 
 three of them, shall have reported that there is prima facie 
 ground for further proceedings, the Bishop, with the written 
 consent of the party accused, may pronounce judgment 
 without further proceedings. 
 
 III. — If the Commissioners, or any three of them, shall 
 report that there is pHma facie ground for the further 
 proceeding, and the party accused shall not consent to have 
 judgment pronounced as aforesaid, then, but not otherwise, 
 three Clerks in Holy Orders, or three Clerks and three 
 Laymen, shall be nominated as hereafter provided to sit 
 with the Bishop or his Commissary, specially appointed for 
 this purpose to hear the cause. 
 
 IV. — In every case where privxa facie ground fpr further 
 proceedings has been found, and in which, from the nature 
 of the offence charged, the charge not being one of error in 
 Doctrine only, it shall appear to the Bishop that great 
 scandal is likely to arise from the Clergyman accused con- 
 tinuing to perform the services ot the Church while such 
 charge is under investigation, the Bishop shall cause a notice 
 to be served on the accused at the same time with the 
 service of the copy of the charge, or at any time pending the 
 proceedings, inhibiting him fi'om performing any service of 
 the Church during the investigation, or until the Bishop 
 shall withdraw the inhibition. 
 
 V. — At each regular meeting of the Synod a Board of 
 Discipline, consisting of 1 3 Presbyters pf not less than ten 
 years standing and of 13 Lay members of the Synod, shall 
 be appointed. 
 
 VI. — The Clerical Secretary of the Synod, or if he should 
 be absent from the Province or be the person accused, the 
 Lay Secretary of the Synod, shall be Registrar of the Court 
 hereinafter provided. 
 
1 I 
 
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 I I'' 
 
 24 
 
 VII.— -If the Bishop shall determine to institute proceed- 
 ings, his intention shall be made known by notice in writing 
 to the person accused within three calendar months frorn 
 the date of the Commissioners' report. 
 
 At a time and place to be fixed by the Registrar of the 
 Court, fifteen days notice of which shall be given in writing 
 to the complainants through their -secretary, and accused, 
 they shall attend personally or by agents before the 
 Registrar, and shall alternately, the accused commencing, 
 strike out one name frorn the 'list of the members of the 
 Board of Dicipline, to be provided by the Registrar for that 
 purpose, until the number be reduced, when the charge is 
 one of error in Doctrine, to three Presbyters, and in all 
 other cases to three Presbyters and three Laymen, who shall 
 be the assessors for the trial of the accused." 
 
 refuse or neglect to 
 
 In case either of the parties shall 
 attend at the time and place appointed, or to strike "otf the 
 names as above provided, or if the complainants cannot agrea 
 among themselves upon the name or names to be struck off 
 by them, the Registrar' shall act on behalf of the party so 
 refusing or neglecting or not agreeing, and strike off the 
 requisite number of names. 
 
 If the Commission has been issued by the Bishop on his 
 own motion, the Registrar shall alternately with the accused 
 or his agents strike off the names as above provided. 
 
 If both complainants and accused refuse or neo-lect to 
 attend at the time and place appointed for striking "off the 
 names, the Bishop shall select three Presbyters and three 
 Laymen, as may be reijuired, from the Board of Discipline, 
 as assessors for the trial of the accused. 
 
 In case the assessors are selected by the parties or by one 
 of the parties and the Registrar as above provided, the 
 Registrar shall at once forward their names to the Bishop, 
 and he shall also riotify him in case neither party shall 
 attend before him at the time and place appointed. 
 
 After the assessors have been selected or appointed, the 
 Bishop shall fix the time and place for the trial, and the 
 Registrar shall give the complainants (through their Secre- 
 tary) and accused twenty-one days' notice thereof in writing. 
 
 Ill 
 
J institute proceerl- 
 y notice in writiuo- 
 I'lar mouths from 
 
 Registrar of the 
 ^ given in writino- 
 ttJ-y, and accused" 
 rents before the' 
 sed commencincr 
 
 members of th^'J 
 
 %i.strar for that 
 'n the charge is 
 •yters, and in all 
 tynien, who shall 
 
 se or neglect to 
 strike otf the 
 ^ts cannot agrea 
 to be struck off 
 >* the party so 
 stnkn off the 
 
 Bishop on his 
 th the accused 
 ovided. 
 
 or neglect to 
 >King off the 
 r« and three 
 0*^' J^iscipline, 
 
 25 
 
 VIII. — At the trial there shall be at least two of the 
 Clerical and one of the Lay Assessors, or in questions of 
 doctrine the three Clergy present with the Bishop or his 
 Commissary ; and the course of proceedings shall be in all re- 
 spects, as far as possible, in conformity with the ordinary 
 practice of Courts of Justice. And if, after full investigation 
 and examination, the truth of the charges shall be proved 
 to the satisfaction of the Bishop or his Commissary and a 
 majority of the assessors, (or in questions of doctrine of a 
 majority of the Clerical Assessors), sentence shall be pro- 
 nounced by the Bishop. 
 
 IX. — If the Bishop himself be promoter of the suit, then 
 the Court shall consist of Assessors appointed as before 
 directed, and of some Bishop of the Province whom the 
 Metropolitan shall be requested to appoint for that purpose. 
 Shou'd the Bishop of Nova Scotia be Metropolitan, then the 
 request shall be made to the Senior Bishop. In case of no 
 appointment by the Metropolitan or Senior Bishop, as the 
 case may be, the Senior Clerical member of the Board of 
 Discipline shall act as Bishop's Commissary in the suit. 
 
 X. — If the party accused shall not appear on the day 
 appointed for trial, after having received the notice thereof, 
 the cause may nevertheless be heard and determined as if 
 he r/ere present, unless there shall appear to be sufficient 
 cause for deferring proceedings to a future day. 
 
 XI. — Advocates shall be allowed on both sides, at the 
 pleasure of the parties, provided they are Clergymen of th e 
 Church of England or Laymen, who tleclare themselves to be 
 members of the said Church, and to belong to no other 
 communion. 
 
 «es or by one 
 'oyided, the 
 t'le Bishop, 
 party shall' 
 id. 
 
 >ointed, the 
 a), and the 
 heir Secre- 
 '» writing. 
 
 XII. — In case at any time when the services of the Board 
 of Discipline are required there should be vacancies therein 
 in consequence of death, absence or other cause, or 'f the 
 person accused shall be a member of the Board, the Execu- 
 tive Committee shall at once till up all such vacancies, so 
 that in all cases there may be 13 Presbyters and 13 Lay 
 members available for the purpose hereinafter knentioned. 
 
 XIII. — The following sentences may be pronounced and 
 punishments imposed upon oSending Clergymen : Admoni- 
 tion, suspension from the exercise oi his office deprivation 
 
m\ 
 
 m 
 
 In ! 
 
 |i:' 
 
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 or removal from his office in the Church, otherwise called 
 deposition, and degradation from the ministry. 
 
 XIV.— Admonitions shall be in private. When the 
 penalty of suspension is inflicted, the sentence shall specify 
 on what terms or at what time the suspension shall cea.se. 
 During his suspension the Clergyman shall not exercise the 
 function of his ministry in his own congregation or elsewhere, 
 on pain of deprivation and deposition ; and during such 
 suspension the Bishop may appoint another Clergyman to 
 supply the place of the suspended Clergyman, and may apply 
 a part or the whole of the e noluments or income of the 
 Parish Mission or Cure to the payment of such substitute. 
 When the sentence of suspension is pronounced, the Bishop 
 shall cause such notice of it to be given to the Clergy and 
 Laity of the Diocese as he shall think sufficient. 
 
 XV.— When the sentence of deprivation or removal from 
 his office is pronounced, the connection between the minister 
 so deprived or removed and his Parish or congregation shall 
 be ipso facto severed, and all offices, rents, issues, profits and 
 emoluments which he may hold by virtue of such office or 
 ministry from which he has been deprived or removed shall 
 v^'holly cease and determine. 
 
 XVI. Whenever a minister is so deposed or degraded 
 from the holy ministry, the Bishop who pronounces the 
 sentence shall, without delay, cause such sentence to be 
 publicly read to the several congregations of the Diocese by 
 the respective ministers thereof, and shall also give notice 
 to all the Bishops of the Province. 
 
 XVII. — All proceedings under the.se n.'i^ulations must be 
 commenced within one year from the dat^ of the alleged 
 offence ; but when proceedings are brought in respect to an 
 offence for which a judgment or conviction has been obtained 
 from a civil or a criminal tribunal, the .suit under this Canon 
 may be commenced at any time within six months after 
 such judgment or conviction. 
 
 XVIIL— An appeal from this Court shall be to the 
 " Court of Appeal of the Metropolitan," under Canon 5 of 
 the Provincial Synod. 
 
 XIX.— If the Bishop shall be of the opinion that the 
 ■charge alleged in the memorial is frivolous and vexatiou.s, 
 
 m 
 
therwise called 
 Y- 
 
 '• When the 
 e «hall specify 
 'fl shall cease. 
 3t exercise the 
 lor elsewhere 
 during such 
 ^iergyman to 
 fid may apply 
 'come of the 
 jh substitute. 
 '' the Bishop 
 • Clergy and 
 
 Jnioval from 
 the minister 
 Ration shall 
 ' profits and 
 ch office or 
 loved shall 
 
 degraded 
 >iinces the 
 nee to be 
 diocese by 
 ve notice 
 
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 •or that the matters alleged show no cause or offence for 
 which the party is amenable under this Canon, he shall state 
 his decision in writing, with his reasons therefor, and endorse 
 the same upon or attach it to one copy of said memorial and 
 file the same on record with the Secretary of the Synod, and 
 shall also cause the other copy of the said memoriaf, with a 
 copy of his decision endorsed thereon, to be returned to the 
 complainant. 
 
 XX. — No Clergyman inhibited under the fourth clause 
 shall be deprived during continuance of such inhibitions of 
 any of the emoluments of his office. 
 
 XXI. — The complaining party shall deposit SI 00 with 
 the Registrar of the Court to meet expenses to abide the 
 result of the trial. 
 
 XXII. — The Synod shall meet the expenses if the Bishop 
 finds it necessary to institute proceedings. 
 
 XX III. — Every notice or citation under this Canon shall 
 be served upon the person or persons to whom it shall be 
 addressed, either personally or by leaving a copy thereof at 
 his usual or last known place of residence. 
 
 CANON II. 
 
 ELECTION OF A BLSHOP. 
 
 must be 
 alleged 
 
 ct to an 
 
 btained 
 Canon 
 
 IS after 
 
 to the 
 >n 5 of 
 
 the 
 tious, 
 
 When the See is vacant the Archdeacon of Nova Scotia, 
 or in case of his absence or incapacity the Senior Presbyter 
 of the Diocese, being a member of the Synod, shall, within 
 a fortnight after the occurrence of such vacancy, summon a 
 meeting of the Synod, to be held in not less than thirty 
 days, to elect a successor to the See, at which meeting the 
 said Archdeacon, or in his absence the Archdeacon of Prince 
 Edward Ishind, or in the absence of both, the senior Presby- 
 ter oresent shall preside*; and it shall be the duty of such 
 Archdeacon or Presbyter to forward as early as possible the 
 name of the Bishop elect to the proper authorities. And at 
 such meeting of the Synod no other business shall be trans- 
 acted. 
 
 ^Seniority to be counted from Date of Priest's Orders. 
 
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 In the election of a Bishop the Clergv and Laity shall 
 vote separately by ballot. A majority of votes in each order 
 shall determine the choice, provided that two-thirds of the 
 Clergy entitled to vote are pr&sent, and two-thirds of all the 
 Lay Representatives, otherwise two-thirds of the votes of 
 each order shall be necessary to determine the choice. 
 
 CANON IIL 
 
 OF DIVINITY STUDENTS. 
 
 1. No person shall be admitted as a Divinity Student 
 until he shall have presented to the Bishop a medical certiti 
 cate as to his health, also testimonials of good moral 
 character and of general fitness, signed by the Rector or 
 Clergyman of the Parish in which he residues, and by three 
 conununicants of said Parish, approved by the Rector or 
 Clergyman in charge. 
 
 2. No Candidate siiall be allowed to remain on the list of 
 Divinity Students or to continue to receive a Divinity 
 Scholarship unless the report to be made to the Bishop an- 
 nually by the President of the College and the Professor of 
 Divinity on his Progress in his studies, and his general 
 deportment be a favorable one ; but in the case of an un- 
 favorable report being made, in appeal shall be allowed to 
 the Visitor of the CoUeire. 
 
 3. Every Divinity Student shall be expected to pass a 
 Matriculation Examination, and to take a full Arts Course, 
 except in cases where an exemption is specially allowed' 
 by the Visitor. f j 
 
 CANON IV. 
 
 OF ADMISSION OF CANDIDATES INTO THE MINISTRY. 
 
 I. In addition to the testimonial hitherto required for 
 Holy Orders, Candidates for the Diaconate shall produce to 
 the Bishop testimonials of their acquirements and moral 
 character from the Head of the College where they received 
 their education, and also a declaration from a majority of 
 the Executive Committee of the Synod, that they are satis- 
 fied either from personal knowledge or afoer incjuiry made 
 as to their moral character. 
 
it| Laity shair 
 \ii\ each order 
 ■.<^hird.s of the 
 "■;'« of all the 
 
 the votes of 
 
 choice. 
 
 'jty Stu.lent 
 licai eertiri 
 food moral 
 ■ Hector or 
 »f' by three 
 i^ector or 
 
 '^he list of 
 J^ivinity 
 }^^hop an- 
 ^i'essov of 
 . greneral 
 
 '^vved to 
 
 ^ pass a 
 
 Course, 
 
 allowed 
 
 |v. 
 
 ''<! for 
 Jee to 
 iioral 
 
 ived 
 ty of 
 latis- 
 
 ade 
 
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 2. If a majoritj of the Executive Committee do not 
 report favourably of any candidate, he shall have the right 
 to appear before the Executive Committee and state his own 
 case ; and if after such hearing a majority of the Committee 
 then present report favourably, the Candidate may forth- 
 with be recommended for admission to Holy Orders ; for the 
 purposes of such hearing seven shall be a quorum of the 
 Executive Committee. 
 
 3. The Si Quia shall be read on three successive Sundays 
 in the Church of the Parish where the Candidate resides, 
 and if the Bishop sees fit, in some other Church, and shall 
 be posted in a conspicuous place in such Church or Churches. 
 
 4. At each meeting of the Synod, the Bishop shall lay 
 upon the table the names of all persons ordained by him 
 since the last preceding session of the Synod ; and the names 
 of those persons who have signed the testimonials of each 
 candidate ordained Deacon shall also be stated. 
 
 CANON V. 
 
 OF DEACONESSES. 
 
 1. Women of devout character and approved titness 
 may be set apart by the Bishop of this Diocese according to 
 such form as he shall approve. 
 
 2. The duties proper to a Deaconess are declared to be 
 the care of the sick and poor, the education of the young, 
 the religious instruction (under the control of the incumbent 
 of the Parish or Mission) of the neglected, the rescue of the 
 fallen, and duties of a kindred nature. 
 
 3. No woman shall be set apart for the work of a 
 Deaconess under 30 years of age, unless for special reasons 
 to be approved by the Bishop, and in no 'case under 25. 
 Every candidate must produce testimonials (a) that she is a 
 communicant, (b) that she is qualified in the judgment of 
 the persons testifying for at least one of the branches of 
 duty named, to be signed by a Presbyter, and two male and 
 three female members of the Church. The Bishop shall 
 also satisfy himself that she has sufficient preparation for 
 the work. 
 
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 4. A Deaconess may at any time after three month's 
 notice resign her office into the hands of the Bishop from 
 whom she received it, and for good cause the Bishop may 
 withdraw her authority ; but no Deaconess having so re- 
 signed her commission shall be capable of being reappointed. 
 
 5. A Deaconess may be transferred from this Diocese to 
 another at the request of the Bishop to whose jurisdiction 
 she is transferred. 
 
 6. No Dertooness shall be sent to any Mission or Parish 
 without the written consent of the incumbent of the Parish 
 or Mission. 
 
 7. In case of two or more Deaconesses living together in 
 one community, the constitution, rules and government 
 thereof must be submitted to the Bishop for his approval, 
 and no manual of devotion shall be used without his 
 sanction. 
 
 CANON VI. 
 
 TO PROVIDE STATISTKJAL INB'ORMATION, AND TO SECURE AN 
 ACCURATE VIEW OF THE STATE OF THE CHURCH. 
 
 Whereas, a full and accurate view of the State of the 
 Church in the Diocese from time to time is not only highly 
 useful and expedient, but also absolutely necessary for the 
 well-being and growth of the Church, therefore be it 
 enacted : 
 
 1. That every clergyman in charge of a Parish or 
 Mission, or, if the Parish be vacant, the Wardens, shall 
 furnish Statistical Returns, according to Schedules prepared 
 by the Secretary and the Executive Committee and approved 
 by the Bishop.' 
 
 2. That every clergyman not regularly settled in a 
 Parish or Church, andlolding the Bishop's License, shall 
 also make similar returns by filling in clauses in foregoing 
 Schedules which may cover any occasional Services he may 
 have performed. 
 
 3. That every Licensed Lay-Reader shall also furnish 
 to the Incumbent or in the case of a vacant Parish or of a 
 
 il!-!i! 
 
three month's 
 e Bishop from 
 e -Bishop may 
 
 having so re- 
 ? reappointed. 
 
 his Bioce.se to 
 8 J"ns,iiction 
 
 '«n or Parish 
 )t the Parish 
 
 ' together in 
 government 
 i« approval, 
 'Without his 
 
 ECVUE AN 
 RCH. 
 
 te of the 
 Khio-hly 
 tor the 
 he it 
 
 Irish or 
 shall 
 epared 
 Jroved 
 
 in a 
 
 shall 
 going- 
 ! may 
 
 'nish 
 of a 
 
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 District separated from a Parish to the Rural Dean, similar 
 returns for the Parish or District to which he is licensed, 
 filling in clauses in foregoing Schedules which may apply to 
 his office. 
 
 4. That every Rural Dean shall furnish statements 
 concerning his chapter according to Schedule prepared by 
 the Bishop. 
 
 5. That blank forms shall be issued by the Bishop 
 through the Clerical Secretary of the Synod to all persons 
 from whom the aforesaid reports are required. 
 
 6. That all such returns shall be duly filled up to the 
 thirty-first day of December, and be sent in each year on or 
 before the last day of February to the Rural Dean, who 
 .shall tabulate all such reports according to Schedules pre- 
 pared by the Secretary, and send them together with his 
 decanal report to the Bishop or his commissary, who shall 
 lay all such returns before the Executive Committee. 
 
 7. That the Secretary of the Executive Committee 
 shall tabulate all such reports, and submit the same duly 
 signed by the Bishop or his Commi,s.sary, on the first day 
 of every Session of the Synod, and that these Statistical 
 returns shall be printed and published with each B. H. M. 
 Report. 
 
 8. That no grant shall henceforth be payable to any 
 clergyman from Diocesan Funds in default of rendering said 
 returns so long as any such default shall continue. 
 
 9. The Reports required by this Canon to be received 
 as far as po.ssible in place of other returns at pre.sent made 
 by the Clergy. 
 
 At the Seventh Ses.sion it was resolved that the altera- 
 tion of the 36th Canon adopted by the Church of England 
 be accepted and adopted by this Synod, which Canon is sub- 
 stantially as follows: (See Gallon XIV. of Provincial Synod 
 of Canada of the oaths and subscription of the Clergy.) 
 
 Every person about to be ordained Priest or Deacon 
 shall, before ordination, in the presence of the Bishop by 
 whom he is to be ordained, and every person about to be 
 licensed to any Curacy, or to be instituted to any benefice^ 
 shall, before obtaining such license or being so instituted^ 
 
I'i 
 
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 mnke and subacribe the following declarations and take the 
 tollowing oaths : 
 
 1. The " Declaration of Assent" so called : 
 
 " I, ( A.B..) do solemnly make the following declaration : 
 
 I assent to the Thirty-nine Articles of Religion and to 
 the Book of Common Prayer, and of the Ordering of 
 Bishops, Priests and Deacons ; I believe the doctrine of the 
 Church of England as therein set forth to be agreeable to 
 the Word of God, and in Public Prayers ami administration 
 of the Sacraments I will use the Form in the said Book 
 prescribed, and none other, except so far as shall be ordered 
 by lawful authority." 
 
 2. 
 
 The Oath of Allegiance 
 
 "I, (A. B.,) do swear that I will be faithful and bear true 
 allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Victoria, her heirs and 
 successors, according to law. So help me God." 
 
 The Oath of Canonical Obedience. 
 
 " I, (A. B.,) do swear that I will pay true and Canonical 
 obedience to the Lord Bishop of and his suc- 
 cessors in all legal and honest commands. So help me 
 God " 
 
 Before institution to any Benefice, the persons to be 
 instituted shall also subscribe the following "Declaration 
 against Simony." 
 
 " I, (A. B.,) solemnly declare that I have not made by 
 myself or by any other person any payment, contract, or 
 promise of any kind whatsoever which, to the best of my 
 knowledge or belief, is simoniacal touching or concerning 
 
 the obtaining the preferment of (, ), nor will I at 
 
 any time hereafter perform or satisry in whole or in part 
 a!iy such kind of payment, contract or promise made by any 
 otiier without my knowledge or consent." 
 
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 CANONS OF PROVINCIAL SYNOD. 
 
 The following Canons and Rule of Order of the Pro- 
 vincial Synod of Canada are published for the information 
 of Clergy and Laity 
 
 CANON. IL 
 
 ON SUBMISSION OF CLERGY TO THE CANONS OF THE PRO- 
 VINCIAL AND DIOCESAN SYNOD. 
 
 No Bishop within this Province shall hereafter grant hi.-? 
 license to any Clergyman to the cure of souls until such 
 Clergyman has first subscribed and declared his submission 
 to the Canons of the Provincial Synod and of the Synod of 
 the Diocese of such Bishop, in the following form : 
 
 I, A. B., do willingly subscribe to and declare that I 
 assent to and abide b}' the Canons which have been, or shall 
 be from time to time passed by the Provincial Synod or the: 
 Synod of the Diocese of 
 
 CANON III. 
 
 ON THE POWERS OF THE METROPOLITAN. 
 
 8. Upon a memorial signed by two-thirds of the Clerical' 
 and Lay members of any Diocesan Synod, certified to be 
 such by the Clerical and Lay Secretaries of such Diocesan 
 Synod, requesting the Metropolitan Bishop to exercise 
 visitatorial power in such Diocese, the said Metropolitan- 
 Bishop shall have full power and authority to visit such 
 Diocese and the Bishop thereof, and during such visitation, 
 to inhibit the exercise of all or of such part or parts of the 
 ordinary jurisdiction of such Bishop as to him, the Metro- 
 politan Bishop, shall seem expedient, and during the time 
 of such visitation to exercise by himself or his Commissaries 
 such powers, functions and jurisdiction in and over the said 
 Diocese as the Bishop thereof might have exercised if he had 
 not been inhibited from exercising the same. 
 
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 CANON V. 
 
 COURT OF APPEAL OF THE METROPOLITAN — HOW f'ONSTITUTED. 
 
 The House of Bishops, presided over by the Metropolitan 
 or President of the Upper House, or Senior Bishop in their 
 absence, with two or more assessors to be from time to time 
 nominated by the said House of Bishops, shall be the Court 
 of Appeal from the judgment of any Diocesan Couit. 
 
 WHEN APPEAL SHALL LIE. 
 
 An Appeal shall lie to the Court of Appeal in all cases 
 adjudged by any Diocesan Court on behalf of any party to 
 the case or proceeding in the Diocesan Court. 
 
 There shall be no appeal for any error or ilefect in form 
 in any proceeding in the Diocesan Court. 
 
 An Appeal shall lie to the Court of Appeal from the 
 judgment or decision of the Bishop of any Diocese. 
 
 
 I- 
 
 \i 
 
 1%' 
 
 CANON VI. 
 
 OF MINISTERING IN PARISHES. 
 
 1. NoClergyman shall absenthimself from hischarge for 
 more than four weeks at a time, without the written consent 
 of a Bishop, or in his absence, of his Commi.ssary. 
 
 2. No person shall be permitted to celebrate Divine 
 Service or perform any office of the Church, permanently 
 or occasionally, except he shall have been Episcopally and 
 Canonically ordained, and it shall be the duty of the Incum- 
 bent or, in his absence, of the Church Wardens, to demand 
 proof of such ordination and of the good standing of the 
 Clergyman before permitting him to officiate. 
 
 No person shall perform the office of Lay Reader except 
 he shall hold the Bishop's License. 
 
 This Canon shall not apply to the students of any Theo- 
 logical College so as to prevent thetn from reading the 
 Lessons in College Chapel, or to La3'men occasionally 
 officiating where there is a necessity for it. 
 
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 3. No Clergyman shall officiate in any Mission or Parish 
 either as a substitute for the Incumbent or as his assistant 
 for more than one month without the written license of the 
 Bishop or the Bishop's Commissary. 
 
 4. No Bishop of one Diocese shall perform any Episcopal 
 Functions in another without the sanction of the Bishop 
 thereof, save in the case provided for V)y the Canon relating 
 to the powers of the Metropolitan, nor shall any Bishop 
 perform any such functions in any vacant Diocese except by 
 instruction from the Metropolitan, or in case of the voidance 
 of his Diocese, from the Senior Bishop of the Province. 
 
 CANON VII. 
 
 OF LETTERS TESTIMONIAL. 
 
 When a Priest or Deacon in good standing is desirous of 
 leaving a Diocese it shall be the duty of the Bi.shop to give 
 him, on his request, the usual " Letters Testimonial," but the 
 Clergyman receiving tha same shall continue subject to the 
 Episcopal Jurisdiction of the Bishop, till the Letters Testi- 
 monial shall have been presented according to their address 
 and accepted by the Bishop to whose Diocese the Clergyman 
 wishes to be transferred ; provided always that if they be 
 not presented within three months ifter date, they may be 
 considered as void by the authority whence they proceeded 
 and shall be void unless they be presented within six 
 months. 
 
 Ivme 
 |ntly 
 I and 
 ium- 
 iand 
 the 
 
 3ept 
 
 leo- 
 Ithe 
 Illy 
 
 CANON X. 
 
 OF OFFICIATING OF STRANGE CLERGYMEN IN » DIOCESE. 
 
 When a Bishop is aware that a Clergyman not of his 
 Diocese is officiating, or about to officiate in his Diocese, and 
 when the said Bishop shall have good reason to believe that 
 doubts exist regarding the Clergyman's orthodoxy, canonical 
 ordination, or good morals, then the Bishop may inhibit him 
 from officiating within his Diocese, by a writing addressed 
 to him and to the clergy ; and any clergyman, after the re- 
 ceipt of the Bishop's inhibition, permitting such inhibited 
 person to perform any clerical function in his Church, or 
 Mission Chapel, shall be proceeded against by the Bishop for 
 a breach of Canonical obedience. 
 
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 RULE OF ORDER— >^o. 33. 
 
 No Canon shall be enacted unless the same has been 
 transmitted by the Secretaries of the Lower House to the 
 Members of the Provincial Synod, at least one month before 
 the meeting of Synod, or unless the same has been left over 
 as unfinished business, and printed in the Journal of the 
 previous Session. 
 
 Ill 
 
 RURAL DEANERIES. 
 
 Deanery of Lunenburg. — (Rev. W. E. Gelling, R.D.) — 
 St. Margaret's Bay, Hubbard's Cove, Chester, New Ross, 
 Blandford, Mahone Bay, Lunenburg, Bridgewater, New 
 Dublin, LaHave. 
 
 Deanery of Shelburne. — (Rev. T. VV. Johnston, R.D.) — 
 Port Medway, Liverpool, Shelburne, Barrington, Tusket, 
 UTarmouth, Lockeport. 
 
 Deanery of Annapolis. — (Rev. H. D. DeBlois.M. A., R.D.) 
 — Weymouth, Digby, Clements, Annapolis, Granville, Bridge- 
 town, Wilmot. 
 
 Deanery of Avon.— (Rev. F. J. H. Axford, R.D.) — 
 Kentville, Cornwallis, Windsor, Falmouth, Newport, Rawdon, 
 Aylesford. 
 
 Deanery of Amherst. — (Rev. V. E. Harris, M.A., R.D.,) — 
 Maitland, Truro, Stewiacke, Londonderry, Parrsboro, 
 Amherst,Pictou, River John,Pugwash, Wallace, Albion Mines. 
 
 Deanery of St. George. — (Rev. H. Hamilton, R. D.) — 
 Antigonish, Guysborough, Manchester, Melford, Country 
 Harbour, St. Mary's River, Arichat. 
 
 Deanery of Tangier. — (Rev. W. Ellis, R. D.) — Beaver 
 Harbour, Ship Harbour, Three Fathom Harbour, Dartmouth, 
 Sackville, Tangier, Falkland. 
 
 Deanery of Sydney. — (Rev. R. D. Bambrick, M.A., R.D.) 
 — Cape Breton (with the exception of Arichat.) 
 
 Deanery of Halifax. — (Rev. Canon Partridge, D.D., U.D.) 
 The city of Halifax. 
 
has been 
 ie to the 
 th before 
 left over 
 i\ of the 
 
 , R.D.)— 
 
 ew Ross, 
 .er, New 
 
 i,R.D.)— 
 Tusket, 
 
 A., R.D.> 
 , Britlge- 
 
 R. D.)— 
 Rawdon, 
 
 |R.D.,)- 
 irrsboro, 
 Mines. 
 
 I D.)- 
 yountrv 
 
 hBeaver 
 
 finouth, 
 
 ., RD.) 
 |., IJ.D.) 
 
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 1. Rural Deans shall be elected for a perioa of five 
 years, the out going Rural Dean to be eligible for re-elec- 
 tion ; but in the absence of the Rurt I Dean for more than 
 six months, or upon his removal from the Deanery, the 
 office shall be considered vacant. 
 
 2. It shall be the office of the Rural Dean to hold 
 meetings of the Clergy of his Deanery, in each Parish or 
 Mission in turn, at least once in six months, for mutual 
 edification. 
 
 3. It shall be the duty of the Rural Dean to examine 
 from time to time, all buildings belonging to the Church, 
 and to Report to the Bishop in answer to questions furnished 
 by him, such questions being sent through the Executive 
 Committee, and to discharge such other duties as he may be 
 requested by the Missionary in charge of each Cure to per- 
 form. 
 
 4. The election of the Rural Deans shall ordinarily take 
 place at the regular meeting of the chapter preceding the 
 termination of the five years for which the Rural Dean has 
 been appointed ; but when a vacancy occurs either by the 
 removal from a Deaner} of a Rural Dean, by death or other- 
 wise, or from any other extraordinary cause, the senior 
 clergyman in such Deanery shall call the clergy together, 
 and at that meeting they shall elect one of their number to 
 be nominated to the Bishop for the office of Rural Dean. 
 If the chapter shall fail to elect within six months after a 
 vacancy shall have occurred the Bishop may make an 
 appointment. Seniority shall be counted from the date of 
 priest's orders. 
 
 5. The Bishop shall be authorized to transfer a Parish 
 from one Deanery to another at the request or with the 
 concurrence of the two chapters affected by such transfer, 
 and the Bishop may attach new districts to what existing 
 Deanery he may choose. 
 
 ADDENDA. 
 
 The Church Wardens of each Parish or District are re- 
 (|uested to make a return (according to a prepared form) to 
 «ach Session of this Synod. 
 
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 The Clergyman of each Parish is required to keep a regis- 
 ter of the number of adherents of the Church of England in 
 their several Parishes, specifying their names and number of 
 (Church families,) Baptisms, Confirmations, Communicants, 
 &c., &c., in a book with printed headings, according to a form 
 to be prepared by the Executive Committee, said Book to be 
 kept au^ong t^e permanent records of the Parish. 
 
 The following recommendations from the Lambeth Con- 
 ference were adopted : 
 
 That, as a general rule, in conformity with Church order' 
 all Missionaries and Chaplains residing or engaged in the 
 exercise of ministerial duty within the Diocese or District 
 of a Colonial or Missionary Bishop, should be licensed b}'^ 
 and be subject to the authority of the said Bishop. 
 
 That every Clergyman removing from one Colonial or 
 Missionary Diocese or District into another Diocese ought to 
 carry with him letters testimonial from the Colonial or 
 Missionary Bishop whose Diocese or District he is leaving. 
 
 That no person admitted to holy orders by the Bishop of 
 any Diocese in England or Ireland, who shall afterwards 
 have been serving under the jurisdiction of any Scottish, 
 Colonial or Foreign Bishop, should be received into any of 
 the Home Dioceses without producing letters dimissory or 
 commendatory from the Scottish. Colonial or Foreign Bishop 
 in whose Diocese he has been serving. 
 
 Also, the following form of letters Commendatory : 
 
 To the Right Rev. the Bishop, and Reverend the Clergy, and 
 to the faithful in Christ of the Diocese of A. : 
 
 We, B., by Divine permission Bishop of C, send greeting 
 in the Lord. 
 
 We commend to your brotherly kindness, by these our 
 letters, D. E. Priest [or Deacon] of our own Diocese, beseech- 
 ing yow to receive him in the Lord as a brother, sound in 
 the faith, of a well-ordered and religious life, and worthy of 
 all Christian fellowship, and to tender him any assistance '^f 
 which he may stand in need ; and so we bid you farewell in 
 Christ our Lord. 
 
 Witness our hand, 
 
 A., Bishop, 
 B., Secretary. 
 
 It was Resolved, " That no letters Dismissory should be refused without 
 the cause thereof being signified in writing, and delivered to the apnlioant. 
 
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 REGULAR COMMITTEES OF SYNOD. 
 
 EXECUTIVE. 
 
 CREDExNTIALS. 
 FINANCE, 
 
 INVESTMENTS. 
 
 CHURCH ENDOWMENT FUND. 
 
 BOARD HOME MISSIONS. 
 
 WIDOWS AND ORPHANS OF CLERGY 
 
 ENDOWMENT OF PARISHES. 
 
 SUPERANNUATION OF CLERGY. 
 
 QUEBEC SCHEME. 
 
 FOREIGN MISSIONS. 
 
 TEMPERANCE. 
 
 BOARD OF DISCIPLINE. 
 
 EDUCATION. 
 
 SUNDAY SCHOOLS. 
 
 ORGANIZATIONS IN PARISHES. 
 
 S. P. C. K. DEPOSITORY. 
 
 PARISH PROPERTY. 
 
 VACANCIES IN COMMITTEES. 
 
 PRINTING REPORT 
 
 The following Committees are in charge of Trust Funds, viz. 
 CHURCH ENDOWMENT FUND. 
 WIDOWS AND. ORPHANS OF CLERGY. 
 ENDOWMENT OF PARISHES. 
 SUPERANNUATION OF CLERGY. 
 
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 i 
 
 REGULATIONS FOR THE ELECTION OF A BISHOP 
 PASSED AT THE SPECIAL SYNOD IN 1887. 
 
 1. The Synod having been duly organized the nomina- 
 tions and election of a Bishop shall be conducted as follows : 
 
 2. The nomination of candidates shall be an open 
 nomination without any expression of opinion. 
 
 3. When the nominations cease, the Synod shall adjourn 
 for not less than half an hour, and on again assembling new 
 nominations may be made until the nominations shall be 
 closed by the chairman. The nominations being closed, a 
 ballot shall be taken, each member of the Ijynod writing 
 upon his ballot the name of the Candidate for whom he 
 votes. 
 
 4. The ballots shall be collected by the Clerical and 
 Lay Secretaries, each assisted by a Clergyman, one Lay 
 Representative to be appointed by the chairman, who shall 
 examine separately the respective clerical and lay votes, and 
 shall report thereon thi'ough the Secretary by feading aloud 
 .the names, and numbers of votes clerical and lay for each. 
 
 5. Should no election result upon the first ballot, further 
 mc nations if offered shall be received, and upon the chair- 
 man declaring the nominations again flosed a new ballot 
 shall be taken upon all the nominations. 
 
 G. Should no election re.sult from this ballot, nomina- 
 tions if offered shall be again received, and upon the chair- 
 man declaring the nominations again closed a ballot shall 
 be taken upon any new nominations together with all names 
 •on the previous ballot which shall have received not less 
 than ten votes; it being understood that any name previously 
 or thereby to be omitted for want of the prescribed number 
 of votes shall be eligible for re-nomination, 
 
 7. Ballots .shall continue to be taken as above provided 
 until an election is made. 
 
 8. Whenever the ballot results in an election the chair- 
 man shall ask that such election be made unanimous by a 
 standing vote of the whole Synod. 
 
 
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 BOARD OF 
 
 HOME MISSIONS, &0. 
 
 1892, 
 

 42 
 
 OP THE 
 
 BoAi\p ofHomeMissions. 
 
 1st. At all the meetings of the Board or its Coinniittees. 
 Itefore entering upon business, the " appointed prayers" shall 
 be said. 
 
 2ntl. The Bishop of the Diocese shall be chairman of 
 the Board, and the Very Rev. the Dean and the Archdeacon 
 of Nova Scotia shall be, cx-officio Vice-Chairman. There 
 sh.all be also a Secretaiy, an Assistant Secretary and a 
 Treasurer. 
 
 8rd. The Board shall corsist of the Chairman, Vice- 
 Chairman, Secretary, Assistant Secretary, and Treasurer of 
 the Board, who shall till the same offices in the Committees ; 
 of all Clergymen licensed by the Bishop of the Diocese, 
 together with twenty laymen to be chosen by the Diocesan 
 Synod. At each ordinary meeting of the Synod one-half of 
 the whole number of lay members of the Board shall go out 
 of office, but they or any of them shall be eligible for 
 re-election ; the new members, having been proposed, 
 seconded and elected by ballot shall be placed at the bottom 
 of the list. No one shall be elected a member of the 
 Board who is not an annual contributor to its funds of at 
 least one dollar. 
 
 4th. The Board shall meet monthly during the year, 
 with the exception of August and September, seven being 
 a (juorum for the transaction of business ; and a general 
 meeting thereof shall be held annually in July, or at the 
 time of meeting of the Synoil, to which matters may be 
 referred from the ordinary meetings of the Board, anil such 
 appeals addressed as have hitherto been allowed to the 
 general meeting of members of the D. C. S. A special 
 meeting may be called at any time by the Chairman, or, in 
 his absence, by a Vice-Chairman. 
 
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 5th. The niembei's of the Church in every part of tlie 
 Province are invited to co-operate with the Board, by form- 
 ing Local Committees under the direction of their respective 
 clergymen, either in each mission or Parish or in more than 
 one Mission or Parish united, as shall be deemed most 
 convenient, and in strict accordance with the designs and 
 Rules of the Board. 
 
 6th. The following objects shall more particularly 
 engage the attention of the Board as soon as its means may 
 enable it to afford such atoention : 
 
 I. — Provision for Clergymen. 
 
 2. — Missionary visits to neglected and destitute places, under th» 
 direction of the Bishop. 
 
 3. — Assistance to the Endowment of Parishes. 
 
 4. — Assistance to the erection and enlargement of Chui'ches and Chapels 
 belonging to the Churcli of England in peculiar or extreme cases. 
 
 5. — Supplies of Books and Tracts published by the Society for promoting 
 Christian Knowledge, and such other Books and Tracts in strict 
 conformity with the principles of the Church of England, as having 
 been first carefully examined and approved by a Committee of 
 Revision to be appointed by the Board, shall then have received 
 the approval of the Board ; and lastly, the written approbation of 
 the Bishop. 
 
 6. — Assistance to the erection of Parsonage Houses. 
 
 7. — Assistance to deserving young men desirous of being qualified for 
 the Ministry of the Church, but requiring aid in pursuing th ir 
 studies at the Collegiate Establishment at Windsor. 
 
 8. — Aid to Sunday and other Schools in which due attention is paid to 
 instruction in the principles of the Church of England. 
 
 9. — Encouragement to the instruction and training of respectable 
 Teachers for Sunday and Daily Schools. 
 
 10. — Upholding by all possible and proper means, the Collegiate 
 Establishment of Windsor. 
 
 11. — It shall also be one of the objects of the Board to provide for the 
 Widows and Orphans of deceased Clergymen and for Superannuated 
 and incapacitated Clergymen ; but no part of the funds shall be 
 appropriated to these objects, except such as shall be specifically 
 given and paid therefor. 
 
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 To these objects, generally, the contributions will be 
 applied ; while those who desire it may have their individual 
 contribution scrupulously confined to any one or more of 
 these objects. 
 
 7th. The accounts of the Board shall he closed •n the 
 31st December in each year, and it shall be audited in one 
 month from the time by auditors to be appointed by the 
 Board. 
 
 8th. None of the above By-Laws shall be altered, 
 except at any Ordinary Meeting of the Synod ; and a full 
 year's notice of a proposal to change any of them must be 
 given previous to the meeting at which the proposed altera- 
 tion is to be effected. 
 
45 
 
 Prayers 
 
 APPOINTED TO BE USED " AT ALL MEETINGS OF THE BOARD, 
 AND OF CGMMirrEES," BEFORE THEY COMMENCE BUSINESS. 
 
 Prevent us, O Lord in all our doings, with Thy most 
 gracious favour, and further us with Thy continual help ; that 
 in all our work, begun, continued, and ended in Thee, we 
 may glorify Thy Holy Name, and finally by Thy mercy 
 obtain everlasting life, through Jesus Christ our Lord. 
 Amen. 
 
 (Board of Home Missions only.) 
 
 0, God, from whom all holy desires, all good counsels, 
 and all works of piety and charity do proceed, we beseech 
 . Thee to visit with Thy favor our Sovereign Lady, Queen 
 Victoria ; and so to rule her heart that she may in all things 
 seek Thy honour and glory. Prosper with Thy blessing our 
 missionary work. Comfort with Thy Grace those benefac- 
 tors who contribute to its support. Bless the Ministry of 
 Thy servants, the clergy ; and the endeavours of all who are 
 engaged in promoting the knowledge of true religion. And 
 may Thy Holy Spirit direct all our consultations to the 
 advancement of Thy Glory and the good of Thy Church, 
 though Jehus Christ our Lord. Amen. 
 
 (Board of Home Missions only.) 
 
 O, Lord Jesus Christ, Who at Thy first coming didst 
 send Thy messenger to prepare Thy way before Thee, grant 
 that the ministers and stewards of Thy mystei'ies may like- 
 wise so prepare and make ready Thy way, l)y turning the 
 hearts of the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, that at 
 Thy second coming to judge the world, we may be found an 
 acceptable people in Thy sight. Who livest and reignest with 
 the Father and the Holy Spirit, ever one God, world 
 without end. A'men. 
 
 {Board of Foreign Missions only.) 
 
 Almighty Gmi, Who, by Thy Son Jesus Christ, didst 
 give commandment to the Holy Apostles that they should go 
 into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature, 
 grant to us whom Thou hast called into Thy Church a I'eady 
 will to obey Thy Word, and fill us with a hearty desire to 
 

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 make Thy way known upon earth, Thy saving health 
 among all nations. Look with compassion upon the Heathen 
 that have not known Thee, and on the multitudes that are 
 scattered abroad as sheep having no shepherd. O Heavenly 
 Father, Lord of the harvest, have respect we beseech Thee, 
 to our prayers, and send forth laborers into Thine liarvest. 
 Fit and prepare them by Thy Grace for the Work of their 
 ministry ; give them the spirit of power, and of love and of 
 a sound mind ; strengthen them to endure hardness ; and 
 grant that both by their life and doctrine they may set forth 
 Thy glory, and set forward the salvation of all men, 
 through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 
 
 (Board of Foreign Missions only.) 
 
 O merciful God, who hast made all men, and hatest noth- 
 that Thou hast made, nor vrouldst the death of a sinner 
 but rather that he should be converted and live, have mercy 
 upon all Jews, Turks, infidels and heretics, and take from 
 them all ignorance, hardness of heart and contempt of Thy 
 Word, and so fetch them home, blessed Lord, to Thy flock, 
 that they may be saved among the remnant of the true 
 Israelites, and be made one fold under one shepherd, Jesus 
 Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with Thee and 
 the Holy Spirit one God, wcn-ld without end. -4 men- 
 Almighty God, Father of all mercies, we thine unworthy 
 servants do give Thee most humble and hearty thanks for 
 all thy goodness and loving kindness to us and to all men ; 
 more particularly for the providential support by which our 
 work has been thus far sustained ; but al)ove all for Thine 
 inestimable love in the redemption of the world by Thy 
 Blessed Son, for the means of grace, and for the hope of 
 gloiy, which Thou hast given us in the same our Lord and 
 Saviour Jesus Christ : to whom, with Thee and the Holy 
 Ghost, be all honour and glory, world without end. Amen. 
 
 Our Father which art in Heaven, Hallowed be Thy 
 Name : Thy kingdom come ; Thy will be done in earth as 
 it is in Heaven ; give us this day our daily bread ; and 
 forgive us oui' trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass 
 against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us 
 from evil ; for Thine is the kingdom, the power and the 
 ijloi'V, for ever and ever. Amen. 
 
 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of 
 God, and the fellowship of the HoLY Ghost, be with us all, 
 evermore. A men. 
 
47 
 
 Widows* and Orphans* Fund, 
 
 as 
 
 1(1 
 
 Iss 
 
 IS 
 
 RULES AND REGULATIONS. 
 
 " It shall also be one of the objects of the Board of Home 
 Missions to provide for the Widows and Orphans of deceased 
 clergymen, but no part of the funds shall be appropriate<l 
 to this object except such as shall be specifically given and 
 paid into the Synod therefor." 
 
 1st. In accordance with the above, the Board of Homo 
 Missions will open a special account for this object, to be 
 called the Widows' and Orphans' Fund. This fund shall 
 be formed and consist of all subscriptions, donations, legacies 
 and other contributions given and paid to the Synod for 
 this special object, and of all premiums received under these 
 Rules, and of all benefits arising therefrom ; and this fun(.l 
 shall be held and applied to and for this particular object, 
 and none other. 
 
 2nd. A Standing Committee of seven men»bers shall be 
 appointed, in whom, together with the Secretary of the 
 Board of Home Missions (who shall be paid as Secretary 
 of this Committee,) shall be vested the whole management 
 of this matter, subject to an appeal to the general Society 
 
 3rd. The Diocesan Synod undertakes to pay out of this 
 Widows' and Orphans' Fund the pensions which become due 
 under the following Rules. 
 
 4th. Every Clergyman of the Church of England within 
 the Diocese wishing to avail himself of the benefits of this 
 Fund, shall within one year from taking Orders, or frc^m 
 his admission into the Diocese, apply to the Secretary for 
 a Certificate of Pension, •■*nd shall pay the annual sum or 
 premium therefor as hereafter mentioned. 
 
 nth. Any applicant after such period or time shall only 
 be permitted to receive such Certificate at the option of the 
 Committee, and upon such terms as they shall direct. 
 
48 
 
 ii. 
 
 Itt l; : 
 
 tt: 
 
 6th. The following shall be the rate of the yearly sum 
 or preiuiuin payable by every Clergyman applying for a 
 certificate, according to his age at the date of his first 
 application. 
 
 Age. 
 
 Preni. 
 
 Age. 
 
 Prem. 
 
 Age. 
 
 Prem. 
 
 23 
 
 S7 20 
 
 86 
 
 $10 27 
 
 49 
 
 $15 38 
 
 24 
 
 7 38 
 
 37 
 
 10 57 
 
 50 
 
 16 17 
 
 25 
 
 7 62 
 
 38 
 
 10 92 
 
 51 
 
 16 90 
 
 26 
 
 7 82 
 
 39 
 
 11 25 
 
 5', 
 
 17 68 
 
 27 
 
 8 05 
 
 40 
 
 11 GO 
 
 58 
 
 18 48 
 
 28 
 
 8 27 
 
 41 
 
 11 95 
 
 54 
 
 19 87 
 
 29 
 
 8 50 
 
 42 
 
 12 80 
 
 55 
 
 20 30 
 
 30 
 
 8 72 
 
 43 
 
 12 67 
 
 56 
 
 21 80 
 
 31 
 
 8 93 
 
 44 
 
 13 08 
 
 57 
 
 22 40 
 
 32 
 
 9 17 
 
 45 
 
 13 48 
 
 58 
 
 28 55 
 
 33 
 
 9 42 
 
 46 
 
 18 92 
 
 59 
 
 24 72 
 
 34 
 
 9 68 
 
 47 
 
 14 42 
 
 00 
 
 25 85 
 
 35 
 
 9 80 
 
 48 
 
 14 92 
 
 
 
 7th. Every Clergyman upon the Fund is required to 
 make at least one collection annually in its behalf. 
 
 8th. If any clergyman marry the second ti' v he shall 
 pay the annual sum or premium for the age may be 
 
 when he mames the second time. 
 
 9th. Upon payment of the first sum or premium 
 the applicant shall receive a Certificate, as hereafter 
 mentioned, and the same sum shall be paid by him, up to the 
 time of his deaMi, on the first day of January in each year. 
 
 10th. If any person fail to pay the amount of his 
 premium within 40 days after the payment becomes due, all 
 claim to the pension under his Certificate shall Ije forfeited, 
 and the same shall thereupon become null and void : Itut if 
 he desires to have his claim to the pension renewed it shall 
 be in the power of this Committee to re-admit him on such 
 terms as they see fit. 
 
 11th. Removal of the clergyman from this Diocese, 
 except in the ca.se of any clergyman who shall become a 
 missionary of the Board of Foreign Missions of this Diocese, 
 or who undertakes work in Algoma wiiile a mi.ssionary 
 Diocese, forfeits all claim to the pension. Seventy-five per 
 
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 ct'Tit. of the uinount of premiuins paid by the hoMtT of the 
 Certificate himself sliail be returne<l to liiiu upon the 
 surrender of his Certificate. 
 
 12th. If any clergyman shall go beyond the Hunts of 
 Europe, or of North America 35' North latitude, without the 
 leave of the Connnittee, he shall forfeit all claim to the 
 pension. 
 
 13th. The widow of every clergyman who shall have 
 paid the annual .sum or prennum (subject the above 
 exceptions) shall receive a pension of SlOO per annum during 
 widowhood. 
 
 14th. If at any time it is the opinion of the Connnittee 
 that the .state of the funds will safely warrant their so doing, 
 that they have power to increase the amount of the pensions. 
 
 15th. If the widow <lie or marry again, the child or 
 children of her deceased husband shall receive the pension. 
 But no part of the pension shall be received by those childi*en 
 who have arrived at the age of sixteen years, if males, or 
 eighteen years, if females : while those who are still under 
 those respective ages will receive the full amount of the 
 pension. 
 
 Kith. If the wife lie before the husband, his child or 
 children .shall at his dc. ^h receive the pension under the 
 above limitation as to ages. 
 
 17th. The pension shall l)e payable half-yearly, on the 
 1st day of January and the 1st day of July m each year, 
 and shall commence on the first of these days which shall 
 happen after the decease of such person holding a Certificate, 
 and terminate on the first of those days which shall happen 
 after the death of the widow or child, or the happening of 
 any other event by which, under these Rules, such pension 
 is to cease. 
 
 18th. The Clergy of Prince Edward Island shall be 
 entitled to participate in the benefit of this fund on equal 
 terms with the Clergy of this Province. 
 
 19th The Certificate to be granted shall be in the 
 following form, under the seal of the Synod and the signature 
 
50 
 
 of the Secretary ; and on the back tlicreof or annexed 
 thereto shall be printed the above rules. 
 
 20th. None of the above Rules or Regulations shall be 
 altered except at a regular meeting of the Synod, after a full 
 year's notice of the proposed change. 
 
 The Widows' and Orphans' f^ minittee do not 
 consider the Fund responsible for the payment of a larger 
 pension than the $100 named in the Certificate. 
 
 Superannuation Fund. 
 
 RULES AND REGULATIONS. 
 
 " It shall be one of the objects of the Board of Honio 
 Missions to provide for superannuated or incapacitated 
 Clergymen ; but no part of the funds shall be appropriated 
 to this object except such as shall be specifically given and 
 paid into the Synod therefor." 
 
 1st. In accordance with the above, the Board of Home 
 Missions, will openaspecialaccountforthis object, to be called 
 " The Superannuation Fund." This fund shall be formed 
 and consist of all subscriptions, legacies, premiums and othei- 
 contributions given and paid to the Synod for this special 
 object, and of all benefits arising therefrom ; and this Fund 
 shall be held and applied to and for this object, and none 
 other. 
 
 2nd. A Committee of four Laymen and two Clergymen 
 shall be appointed in whom, together with the Bishop of the 
 Diocese as Chairman, shall be vested the whole managment 
 of this Fund, and of whom one Clergyman and two Lay- 
 men Shall retire at each regular session of the Synod, but 
 they shall be eligible foj^* re-election, the members who are 
 to retire for the first time being those whose attendance shall 
 have been least regular, and subsequently those whose names 
 shall be first on the list. 
 
 3rd. The Diocesan Synod undertakes to pay from the 
 
51 
 
 ixed 
 
 rymen 
 
 )t' the 
 
 jmeiit 
 
 Lay- 
 
 Ll, but 
 
 10 are 
 
 shall 
 
 lames 
 
 In th« 
 
 proceeds of this fund the pensions which may becDme due 
 under the following Rules : 
 
 4th. Every clergyman to pai'ticipate in the benefits of 
 this Fund, and being incapacitated by age or otherwise, 
 shall make application to the Committee, who, on finding 
 the claim to be in accortlance with the rules governing this 
 Fund, shall grant him a sum in proportion to the time he 
 has served in the Diocese, and which shall be regulated by 
 the following scale : — 
 
 If he have served less than 7 consecutive years, $1C0 00 per annum. 
 
 " " more " 7 and less than 10 years 150 00 
 
 " " " " 10 " 15 " 200 00 " 
 
 II II <i .( j5 « 20 " 250 00 " 
 
 II II II 11 20 «• 25 " 300 00 " 
 
 I. II .< I. 25 «« 30 " 350 00 •' 
 
 II II II 1. 30 " 400 00 " 
 
 Provided that no pension shall be granted to any 
 incumbent untill after the payment of his first half yearly 
 premium. 
 
 Not;% — Every application except in case of old age must be accom- 
 panied by a certificate of a regular medical practitioner as to the incapacity 
 of the applicant. 
 
 5th. Every clergyman entitled to participate in the 
 benefits of this Fund on attaining the age of 70 years, may 
 retire from active duty, and on so doing shall receive the 
 amount of pension to which he is entitled in accordance 
 with the foregoing scale ; provided that he shall have served 
 for a period of not less tlian 15 consecutive years in the 
 Diocese. 
 
 6th. Every clergyman of tlie Church of England in full 
 orders within this Diocese shall within one year after taking 
 such orders, or from his admission into the Diocese, apply 
 to the Secretary for a Certificate of Pension, and shall pay 
 the annual sum or premium as herein provided. Any 
 applicant after such period of time shall only be permitted 
 to receive such certificate on paying up all back premiums. 
 Any clergyman who may be expelled from the Ministry, shall 
 thereby be excluded from all participation in this Fund. 
 
 7th. Every clergyman onbeingordained or admitted into 
 this Diocese, shall pay to the Treasurer of this Fund semi- 
 annually as premium, a sum according to his age at the time 
 of such ordination or admission, as follows : — 
 
52 
 
 i 
 
 i;fi 
 
 It' 
 
 If under 30 years of age $3 00 each half year. 
 
 If over 30 and under 35 years 3 50 " 
 
 "35 " 40 " 4 00 
 
 "40 " 45 " 4 50 
 
 "45 " 50 " 5 50 " 
 
 "50 6 50 
 
 8th. Every clergyman entitled to participate in the 
 benefits of this Fund shall take an annual collection in its 
 behalf. 
 
 9th, Any clergyman leavingthis Diocese shall surrender 
 his certificate and receive one half of the amount of the 
 premiums paid by him. 
 
 10th. The pension shall be for life unless circumstances 
 should arise, either from the falling ofif of the Fund or 
 otherwise, which may make a revision necessary. 
 
 11th. If the pensioner resides out of this Diocese, 
 sufficient proof of his identity shall accompany each draft 
 for his pension. 
 
 12th. The pension and premium shall be paid half 
 yearly in advance, viz. : — on the 1st of January and Ist of 
 July in each year, and the pension shall commence on the 
 first of those days that shall happen after it is granted, and 
 terminate on the first of those days after the death of the 
 pensioner, or by the happening of any other event by which 
 such pension is to cease. 
 
 13th. If any incapacitated c'^rgyman should be so far 
 relieved from his disability as to be able to resume the 
 discharge of his full clerical duty, the pension shall be 
 suspended during his relief from disability. 
 
 14th. The above rules shall not be so construed as to 
 prohibit any beneficiary from doing such light clerical duty 
 as may be sanctioned by the Lord Bishop of the Diocese. 
 
 15th. The Clergy of Prince Edward Island now and 
 hereafter in active service shall be accorded the same privi- 
 leges as the Clergy of Nova Scotia in relation to the 
 Supei'annuation Fund. 
 
 16th. None of the above rules or regulations shall be 
 altere<l except at an ord.nary meeeting of the Synod, after 
 a full year's notice of the proposed change. 
 
 
53 
 
 Endowment Rules. 
 
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 Ifter 
 
 The following Rules for the guidance of the Endowments 
 Committee were adopted May 17, 1850 : — 
 
 1st. The investment of Endowments may be made in 
 lands, houses, stock in banks or other companies, money 
 invested in mortgages or other securities, to be approved of 
 by the Endowment Committee, and to be con"eyed and held 
 for the benefit of the Incumbent or resident Missionary 
 for the time being of any Parish or Mission for which they 
 are designed, the said Incumbent or resident Missiop»"*y to 
 receive the yearly proceeds only of the interest or rents 
 arising from such Endowment. 
 
 2nd. The conveyance of trust of such Endowment may 
 be made either to the Soci'^ty for the propagation of the 
 Gospel or to the Church Corporation of the Parish or to the 
 Diocesan Synod. 
 
 3rd. When real property is purchased and conveyed for 
 Endowment it shall be free from any debt or incumbrance. 
 
 4th. The annual proceeds arising from such Endowment 
 shall be withheld from any Incumbent or resident Missionary 
 of any Parish or Mission who may be suspended by the 
 Bishop of the Diocese from performing public services in the 
 churches in his Parish or Mission during the continuance of 
 such suspension. 
 
 5th. The Endowment Committee shall hold any sum 
 contributed toward the endowment of any Parish or Mission 
 in trust for such Parish or Mi.ssion, and obtain such a rate 
 of interest for the money as may be practicable, consistent 
 with safety, until an opportunity shall arise for or investing 
 it for the permanent endowment of such Parish or Mission ; 
 and if, in the judgment of the Endowment Committee, such 
 opportunity or proposition for endowment shall come within 
 the true intent and scope of the foregoing regulations, they 
 shall authorize the said sums to be paid to the Parish or 
 Mission so applying for it. 
 
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 6th. If any difficulty shall arise as to whether any 
 opportunity or proposition for endowment be agreeable to 
 the foregoing I'ules, or if any other point relative thereto 
 should be disputed or doubted, the question should be 
 referred to the General Committee of the Board, at their 
 meeting then ensuing. 
 
 7th. All applications from any Parish or Mission to the 
 Endowment Committee for aid shall be signed by the Rector 
 and Church Wardens of such Parish, or by the resident 
 Missionary, accompanied by a resolution of the Local Com- 
 mittee of the Board of Home Missions in its favour in such 
 Missions ; and shall state the nature, situation, value and 
 annual profits of the investment desired to be made, the 
 names of those in whose behalf it is to be ma^'e, the 
 office where it should be registered, the sums t-hat are 
 contributed for its purchase, and all other particulars which 
 may enable the Endowment Committee to form a correct 
 judgment ; all such applications to be made to the Secretary 
 of Board of Home Missions, who is ex ojfficio, Secretary of 
 the Endowment Committee. 
 
 
 ■U : < 
 
 The Endowment Committee, in a Report May 11th, 
 1863, made the following recommendation which was 
 adopted : — 
 
 " That while no restriction is made as to the sum which 
 a Parish may withdraw from its ' Reserved Fourths' and 
 invest as heretofore, yet that $1000 be the minimum to 
 which they should amount before they can be placed in 
 trust with the Board, and the interest be payable to the 
 Incumbent." 
 
 
55 
 
 Quebec Scheme. 
 
 RULES AND REGULATIONS. 
 
 I. In order to encourage the established Parishes and Missions 
 to become gradually self-supporting, all grants made by or through 
 the Board of Home Missions in aid of Parishes and Missions (not 
 including stipends secured through the elder Clergy on the Society 
 for the Propagation of the Gospel grant during life) shall from 
 henceforth be made conditional on the contribution by the Parish 
 or Mission itself of a stated sum towards the General Purposes of 
 the Board. 
 
 II. All grants made by the Board of Home Missions shall be- 
 made yearly subject to these rules, and be distributed under 
 direction of the Board. 
 
 III. On the approval by the Board of Home Missions of the 
 •grants recommended by the Quebec Scheme Committee for the 
 year, the same shall forthAvith pass into operation subject to the- 
 following regulations : 
 
 (1.) Th. Board of Home Missions (acting in conjunction with 
 the Lord Bishop) shall forthwith, after such approval, communi- 
 cate with the Wardens or other Lay Members of the Church in 
 each Parish or Mission, requiring them to enter into engagement 
 (A) with the Society, to contribute the sum required of the 
 Parish or Mission for the year. 
 
 (2.) Should such engagement not be entered into to the satis 
 faction of the Board within three months from such notice then 
 next, they sliall communicate with the Missionary, requiring him 
 to give to each of his congregations notice (B) of withdrawal of 
 all payments to him as a Missionary receiving stipend through this 
 Board at the end of current quarter, unless the engagement be 
 meantime completed. 
 
 (3.) Should such engagement not be entered into to the satis- 
 faction of tlie Board before the time specified, all payments to 
 the Missionary's salary through the Board shall be withdrawn, 
 and no stipend shajl thereafter be payable in respect thereof. 
 Provided that should the Missionary see fit to r«sigi. his cure, he 
 shall, if stationed for the remainder of the year by the Lord 
 Bishop in any vacant Mission which may be willing to comply 
 with the terms required of the defaulting Mission, be entitled 
 
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 in respect of the services to be rendered in such new Mission, to 
 such stipend as may be agreed upon between such Missionary and 
 the Board. Provided, also, that any such Missionary, if not so 
 appointed to any new Mission, may nevertheless be permitted by 
 the Board, on special application, to draw on 1st April for a sum 
 in their discretion ; but not exceeding his previous quarter's stipend 
 from the Board. 
 
 (4). Where such engagement is entered into, the Board shall 
 forthwith notify the Missionary, who shall thereupon (unless the 
 terms of engagement shall not be fulfilled as hereinafter provided) 
 be entitled to draw upon the Treasurer for the full amount of his 
 quarterly salary, including therein the sum required for the quarter 
 from the Parish or Mission itself. 
 
 (5). The amount required from the Mission shall be paid by 
 equal quarterly instalments at least one month before the last 
 day of each quarter, the same to be remitted direct to the Treasurer. 
 Provided that if necessary, on application to the Board the Parish 
 or Mission may have one month's grace to complete the payment. 
 One third ot the amount payable from the people may at the 
 option of the Clergyman be paid in kir«(J or produce. 
 
 (6). Should the money not be .dceived by the Treasurer by 
 the last day of the second mouth of the quarter before it be 
 payable to the Missionary, it shall be the duty of the Treasurer at 
 once to send to the Missionary and to each of the persons who 
 shall have signed the engagement, the notice (C), and should such 
 money not have been received by the last day of the quarter, the 
 grant of the Board shall thenceforth cease, and it shall be tlie 
 Treasurer's duty at once and in like manner to send the notice (D). 
 If, however, the arrears be subsequently paid the grant shall be 
 thereupon ipso facto rene-ved, unless the Board order to the 
 contrary, in which case the Board shall notify the Parish or Mission 
 and state the reason for such order. 
 
 (7). In case of the Parishes or Missions where the Missionary's 
 stipend is secured for life on the Society for the Propagation of the 
 Gospel grant, the Board shall call on the Wardens to enter into 
 the precribed engagement only in case of the demise of the present 
 Missionary ; and those Missionaries shall continue to draw their 
 stipends as heretofore accustomed, unless any shall voluntarily 
 come within the general system adopted for other Parishes or 
 Missions. 
 
 (8). It shall be optional to the Board to permit any Parish or 
 Mission to make a quarterly, half-yearly or yearly payment at any 
 period in advance, and these regulations, mutatis mutandis, shall 
 thereupon apply generally to any such Pariah or Mission. 
 
 (9). The Board of Home Missions, in conjunction with the 
 Lord Bishop, shall appoint deputations of Clergymen and Laymen 
 
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 for each Deanery, which each deputation shall visit, for the pur- 
 pose of holding Missionary meetings in the several Parishes or 
 Missions, and taking up collections thereat, not interfering, 
 however, with the usual collections and annual canvass of the 
 Parish or Mission on behalf of the Board ; and further, of making 
 inquiries as to the power of the Parish or Mission to contribute 
 towards the Clergyman's support ; such deputations reporting to 
 the Koard. 
 
 (10). The Board oi Home Missions, in conjunction with the 
 Lord Bishop, may further appoint special deputations to enquire 
 into the causes of any deficiency of contribution or other pecun- 
 iary difficulties in any Parish or Mission ; and shall have power 
 to call for any returns they may think proper from any of the 
 Parishes receiving aid from or through the Board. 
 
 (11). These regulations shall come into force only as each 
 parish becomes vacant, or at the request of a pariah. 
 
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 A. 
 
 Memorandum of Agreement between the Board of Home 
 Missions of the diocese of Nova Scotia and the members of the 
 Church in the Parish (or Mission) of 
 
 The undeisigned, on behalf the Congregation of the above 
 Parish (or Mission), do hereby undertake to have a sum, at the 
 
 rate of $ per annum, collected and paid quarterly to 
 
 the Treasurer of the said Society, from the 1st day of , 189 , 
 
 so long as the ministrations at present offered to the said congrega- 
 tion siiall be continued. 
 
 We also certify that the amount given by the Parish (or 
 Mission) is a bona fide contribution, and that no part of the sum 
 is derived from rent of glebes or interest of investments, the 
 property of the Mission. 
 
 The present agreement to continue till revised by the Board. 
 
 Dated at the ) 
 
 day of 18.. f 
 
 N. B.-^The pecuniary and moral obligation in connection with 
 the above agreement is to be understood as resting upon the Parish 
 (or Missirm) as a whole, and not upon the signataries personally. 
 
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 Memo. — A condition of the grant is that Parsonage Houses are- 
 Jii'pt insured for at least one half their value. 
 
 B. 
 
 Notice is hereby given that this congregation, having failed to 
 enter into the engagement required by the Board of Home 
 
 Missions to contribute the sum of $ quarterly, towards 
 
 the General Purposes Fund, the stipend cannot be drawn after the 
 
 next ; and unless the engagement be 
 
 meantime completed, payment of the Missionary's stipend will 
 cease. 
 
 C. 
 
 N.S 189.... 
 
 Dear Sib, — I have to inform you that the amount required 
 
 fr<»m the Mission of for the present quarter has not been 
 
 received ; and to remind you that unless the same be remitted, or 
 proper receipts for produce sent in, on or before the last day of 
 the quarter, the grant made the Board of Home Mission will' 
 cease from date. 
 
 You will please communicate this notice to the Mission. 
 
 I am, yours respectfully, 
 
 Trexisurer. 
 
 D. 
 
 N. 8 189.... 
 
 Dear Sir, — T have to inform you that the amount required" 
 
 from the Mission of for the past quarter has not been 
 
 received ; and that, consequently, the grant made by the Board 
 ceases with the payment due this date. 
 
 No renewal of the grant can be made until all arrears are paid. 
 
 You will please communicate this notice to the Mission. 
 
 I am, yours respectfully. 
 
 Treasurer.. 
 
 
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 FORM OF DRAFT. 
 
 189. 
 
 Sir: 
 
 Pay to or order, the sum 
 
 of being the amount of salary due to me as^ 
 
 Missionary at for the quarter ending the 
 
 day of 189. ., in accordance with the schedule adopted 
 
 by the Board of Home Missions. 
 
 To the Treasurer of the Board of Home Missions 
 of Nova Scotia. 
 
 Churches. 
 
 Every application for aid in the erection of a church 
 must contain the following information : — 
 
 I. — The precise situation, especially with reference to 
 the nearest Church and to the amount of population within 
 five miles of the Church. 
 
 2. — The title of the ground on which the building is to 
 be erected. 
 
 3. — The size of the building, the numbers it can accom- 
 modate, and probable amount of the congregation that will 
 usually attend it. 
 
 4. — The proposed cost of the building, the progress it 
 has made towards completion, and the amount of contribu- 
 tions on the spot in money or labor. 
 
 5. — The frequency and regularity of the proposed services 
 in the Church, 
 
 6. — That all the sittings are to be free and unappropriated. 
 
 It is the wish of the Board of Home Missions that no 
 
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 Clergymen should when building a Church, rely upon aid 
 from the Board, without first ascertaining whether it is in 
 the power of the Board to grant any assistance. 
 
 All grants to Churches are made on the following terms, 
 namely : That the first moiety be called for within one year, 
 and the second within two yea.rs, from the date of the grant. 
 The first moiety may be obtained when the exterior is 
 finished, and the second when the interior is finished. Grants 
 to Parsonages are made on similar conditions. 
 
 The Endowment Committee receive and hold any money 
 given in trust for Church purposes, and pay over the annual 
 interest arising from the same when invested towards the 
 furtherance of the special object for which it was given. 
 
 
 GENERAL REGULATIONS. 
 
 All donations of ten Pounds and upwards are funded 
 and the interest only applied to the general purposes of the 
 Board. 
 
 The Board will not make its usual grant toward the 
 payment of any Assistant Missionary appointed to a separate 
 cure unless the people there consent to pay toward the 
 Endowr.ient Fiend of their Parish or Mission all the 
 proceeds of whatever glebe lands may be in that Parish. 
 
 All subscription lists received before the 31st December 
 in each year will appear in the next foi'thcoming Report, 
 while those received after that date shall be omitted. 
 
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 If the reservation and special donations are not mentioned 
 at the time when the contributions are sent in from the 
 Local Committees the whole amount will be considered as 
 ■devoted to the general interests of the Board. 
 
 H^The attention of the Local Committee is particularly 
 requested to the above regulations. 
 
 All applications for aid from this Board are proposed at 
 •one meeting of the Board and considered at the next. 
 
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 No person shall be qualified to vote at any general 
 meeting of the Board, nor be elected a member, who nas not 
 been a subscriber for throe months preceding the day of 
 meeting. 
 
 At the General meeting in 1869, the following resolution 
 was adopted : 
 
 The Church property in any Parish which is actually 
 occupied by the Incumbent of the said Parish shall be 
 valued by competent valuers upon his taking charge, and be 
 considered at the same value for salary during his Incum- 
 bency ; and the valuers shall be appointed as follows, viz : 
 one by the Parish, one by the Board of Home Missions, and 
 another by those two. 
 
 AN ACT to vest in the Diocesan Synod of Nova Scotia the Funds 
 
 held by the D. C. S. 
 
 Whereas, At a meeting of the D. C. S. held in the month 
 of July, 1876, it was resolved, &c., &c. 
 
 And ivhereas, At the General Se.°«ion of Diocesan Synod 
 of Nova Scotia, held in the same month, the said resolution 
 was adopted by the Synod : 
 
 And whereas, It is considered expedient, in order to 
 carry such resolution into effect, that an Act be passed to 
 vest in the said Diocesan Synod of Nova Scotia all and other 
 property held in trust by or for the said D. C. S. 
 
 Be it therefore enacted by the Governor, Council and 
 Assembly as follows : 
 
 1. All property, real and personal, held by or in trust 
 for the D. C. S. or other funds respectively connected there- 
 with, are hereby declared to have become vested in the 
 Diocesan Synod of N. S. in trust, to be held and managed 
 for the several purposes for which they have heretofore been 
 held and managed by the D. C. S. as fully and effectually as 
 the same were previously vested in or held in trust for said 
 D. C. S. 
 
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 2. The said Synod shall be bound to fulfil all engage- 
 iiients made by the said Society previous to such transter, 
 and to observe all the conditions under which the several 
 funds may have been held in trust by the said Society. 
 
 3. In all cases where moneys of D. C. S. have been 
 loaned on mortgage in this Province for the benefit of any 
 trust funds in connection with said Society and in all like 
 <jases it shall and may be lawful, in case of the payments of 
 the amounts due on such mortgages, for the said Synod to 
 discharge such mortgages, by writing under their seal, and 
 thereby the mortgagees, their heirs, executors, administrators, 
 or assigns, shall be fnlly discharged from all further liability 
 on account of such mortgages. 
 
 4. The receipt of the Treasurer of the Synod shall be a 
 suflicient discharge to the Treasurer of the said Society for 
 all monies and securities transferred by him. 
 
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 TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
 
 Page. 
 
 Declaration of principles 3 
 
 Constitution of Synod 4 
 
 Order of proceedings 9 
 
 Rule* of Order lo 
 
 Rules regarding CoinmitteeB 12 
 
 Executive Committee 13 
 
 Acts of the Legislature 14 
 
 Church Act 17 
 
 Canons of Diocese N. S. : 
 
 1 . On Discipline of Clergy 22 
 
 2. Election of a Bishop 27 
 
 3. of Divinity Students 28 
 
 4. of Candidates for The Ministry 28 
 
 5. of Deaconesses 29 
 
 6. On Statistics 30 
 
 Oaths and Subscription of Clergy 37 
 
 Certain Canons of Pkovincial Synod : . 
 
 2. On submission of Clergy 33 
 
 3. On Powers of Metropolitan 33 
 
 5. On Court of appeal " 34 
 
 (). On Ministering in parishes 34 
 
 7. On Letter Testimonial 35 
 
 10. On Officiating of Strange Clergymen 35 
 
 Rural Deaneries 36 
 
 Addenda 37 
 
 Regulations on Election of a Bishop 40 
 
 By laws of B. H. M 42 
 
 Appointed Prayers of B. H. M . 45 
 
 W. & 0. Fund Rules 47 
 
 Superannuation Fund Rules 50 
 
 Endowment of Parishes Rules 53 
 
 Quebec Scheme 55 
 
 Aid to Churches 59 
 
 General Regulations 60 
 
 Act to vest funds of D. C. S. in the Synod 61 
 
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 This pamphlet may be obtained from 
 the Secretary of the Diocese, 
 
 Hi:v. Canon Partridge, 
 
 ^34 Barrington St., Halifax. 
 
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