Reverend Canon Thomas Henry Freer an annual sum to be used as additional income for the said Birmingham Bishopric Endowment Fund which would be sufficient forthwith to raise the annual value of the said Birmingham Bishopric Endowment Fund to a sum of three thousand five hundred pounds.

Now, therefore, in pursuance of the above mentioned Acts His Majesty is pleased, by and with the advice of His Most Honourable Privy Council, to order and declare as follows:

(1) The Bishopric of Birmingham is hereby founded.
(2) The Diocese of the said Bishopric shall consist of the
Archdeaconry of Birmingham and the Rural Deanery
of Handsworth and of such other parishes as shall be
transferred to the Diocese in pursuance of the Bishop-
rics of Southwark and Birmingham Act, 1904.

(3) The Parish Church of St. Philip at Birmingham in the
County of Warwick subject to the rights of the patron
and incumbent of such Church, shall be the Cathedral
Church of the said Bishopric.

(4) The Bishop of Birmingham is constituted a Body Corporate and is hereby invested with all such rights, privileges, and jurisdictions as are possessed by any other Bishop in England, and is subjected to the metropolitan jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Canterbury.

(5) This Order shall come into operation on the publication of the same in the London Gazette.

A. W. FitzRoy.

ORDER IN COUNCIL FOUNDING THE BISHOPRIC OF

SOUTHWARK.

1905. No. 321.

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 20th day of March,

1905. PRESENT:

The King's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

Whereas in pursuance of the Bishoprics Act, 1878,* and the Bishoprics of Southwark and Birmingham Act, 1904,†t the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England on the 2nd day of March, 1905, certified to His Majesty under their Common Seal, that the annual value of the Southwark Bishopric Endowment Fund, together with the annual sum which will ultimately be derived, in pursuance of the above-mentioned Acts, from the

endowment or income of the Bishopric of Rochester (when calculated in the manner directed by the said Bishoprics Act, 1878, and the First Schedule to the said Bishoprics of Southwark and Birmingham Act, 1904) was not less than three thousand five hundred pounds a year:

Now, therefore, in pursuance of the above-mentioned Acts, His Majesty is pleased, by and with the advice of His Most Honourable Privy Council, to order and declare, as follows:

(1) The Bishopric of Southwark is hereby founded.
(2) The Diocese of the said Bishopric shall consist of the
Rural Deaneries of Greenwich, Lewisham, Woolwich,
Battersea, Camberwell, Clapham, Dulwich (except
the Parishes within the Urban District of Penge),
Kennington, Lambeth, Newington,
Newington, Southwark,
Barnes, Beddington, Caterham, Godstone, Kingston,
Reigate, Richmond, Streatham, and Wandsworth.
and of such other parishes as shall be transferred to
the Diocese in pursuance of the Bishoprics of South-
wark and Birmingham Act, 1904.

(3) The Parish Church of St. Saviour, Southwark, in the
County of London, subject to the rights of the patron
and incumbent of such Church, shall be the Cathedral
Church of the said Bishopric.

(4) The Bishop of Southwark is constituted a Body Corporate and is hereby invested with all such rights, privileges, and jurisdictions as are possessed by any other Bishop in England, and is subjected to the metropolitan jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Canterbury.

(5) This Order shall come into operation on the 1st day of May next.

A. W. FitzRoy.

2. Suffragan Bishops.

ORDER IN COUNCIL APPOINTING THE TOWN OF WOOLWICH THE SEE OF A SUFFRAGAN BISHOP.

1905. No. 557.

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 10th day
of May, 1905.

PRESENT:

The King's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

*

Whereas by the Suffragans Nomination Act, 1888, it is enacted, that from and after the passing of that Act, for the purposes of the Act of the 26th year of the reign of King

* 51-2 V. c. 56.

Henry the Eighth, chapter 14, intituled "An Act for Nomination and Consecration of Suffragans within this Realm," such other towns as His Majesty the King may from time to time by Order in Council direct, shall be taken and accepted for sees of bishops suffragans, as if they had been included in that Act, and that that Act shall be construed and have effect accordingly:

Now, therefore, His Majesty, under and by virtue of the powers vested in Him by the said recited Act, and all other powers enabling Him in that behalf, and by and with the advice of His Most Honourable Privy Council, is pleased to direct, and doth hereby direct that the town of which the name is scheduled to this Order, shall be taken and accepted for a see of a bishop suffragan as if it had been included in the above-mentioned Act of the 26th year of the reign of King Henry the Eighth, chapter 14.

A. W. FitzRoy.

ORDER IN COUNCIL APPOINTING THE TOWN OF KNARESBOROUGH THE SEE OF A SUFFRAGAN BISHOP.

1905. No. 1215.

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 20th day of
November, 1905.

PRESENT;

The King's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

Whereas by the Suffragans Nomination Act, 1888,* it is enacted, that from and after the passing of that Act, for the purposes of the Act of the 26th year of the reign of King Henry the Eighth, chapter 14, intituled "An Act for Nomination and Consecration of Suffragans within this Realm," such other towns as His Majesty the King may from time to time by Order in Council direct, shall be taken and accepted for sees of bishops suffragans, as if they had been included in that Act, and that that Act shall be construed and have effect accordingly:

51-2 V. c. 56.

Now, therefore, His Majesty, under and by virtue of the powers vested in Him by the said recited Act, and all other powers enabling Him in that behalf, and by and with the advice of His Most Honourable Privy Council, is pleased to direct, and doth hereby direct that the town of which the name is scheduled to this Order, shall be taken and accepted for a see of a bishop suffragan as if it had been included in the above-mentioned Act of the 26th year of the reign of King Henry the Eighth, chapter 14.

ACT OF SEDERUNT FOR REGULATING FEES PAYABLE TO THE CLERKS OF THE PEACE, OTHER THAN UNDER THE LICENSING (SCOTLAND) ACT, 1903.

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Edinburgh, 24th November, 1905.

The Lords of Council and Session considering that by the Licensing (Scotland) Act, 1903, 3 Edward 7th (cap. 25, section 27, sub-section 3), it is provided that "it shall be "lawful for the Court of Session, on the application of the "Lord Advocate, from time to time, by Act of Sederunt, to prescribe a table or tables of fees payable to a Sheriff Clerk or Town Clerk for anything done under this Act, and of "fees payable to a Clerk of the Peace for anything done under this Act or otherwise; and any table so prescribed shall have full force and effect notwithstanding any general or special provision contained in this or any other Act; and "thereafter no such clerk as aforesaid shall demand or receive any greater or additional fee or remuneration for anything so done than is authorised in such table:" And considering that an application has been made to the said Lords by the Lord Advocate in terms of said Act: And considering that on 7th July, 1904, an Act of Sederunt was enacted by the said

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Lords intituled "Act of Sederunt for regulating the fees pay"able under the Licensing (Scotland) Act, 1903, to Sheriff Clerks, Town Clerks, and Clerks of the Peace,"* which prescribed, inter alia, that the Clerks of the Peace were entitled to charge certain fees for work done under the said Act: And further considering that it is expedient to prescribe, in terms of said Act, a table of fees for work done by the Clerks of the Peace otherwise than under said Act; Therefore the said Lords do enact and declare that from and after the date hereof, in addition to the fees prescribed in the said Act of Sederunt applicable to the said Clerks of the Peace, the Clerks of the Peace shall be entitled to charge the fees specified in the table annexed hereto until the same shall be altered in terms of law. Provided always that nothing herein contained shall affect any arrangement or agreement between a Clerk of the Peace holding office at the date hereof and a County Council or Town Council of a County of a City whereby the said Clerk of the Peace is paid a salary or higher fees in lieu of the fees prescribed in Part II. of the table annexed hereto.

And the Lords appoint this Act of Sederunt and the annexed table to be entered in the Books of Sederunt and to be printed and published in common form.

Dunedin, I.P.D.

TABLE OF FEES PAYABLE TO THE CLERKS OF THE PEACE for Work DONE OTHER THAN UNDER THE LICENSING (SCOTLAND) ACT, 1903.