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The following is the Secood Report of his Mo.
jesty's Coassoissioners, appointed by virtue of so
Act of Parliament passed in the Seth r-ur of the
reign of his late M •jetty King George the Third,
c. 45, entitled " Au Act for building sud pro.
motiug the building of udditional Churches iu po.
pulour Parishes."

SECOND REPORT OF HIS MAJESTY'S COMMIS.
SIONERS, APPOINTIP.D, kr.
" le slaking this Report, his Illajemy's Commissioner'
think that it will be fur the genres, eo issee, that they
should Retail, summarily, the teno► of their Report midterm
the 3.1 February, 1821.

" lo the Report it wag stated that letters plient had
inued under seal of the United Kingdom of Great Bruen/
and Ireland, appointing the Richt Honourable and Minim,.
able persons therein named, Comititasionera fur carrying the
before-mentioned Art of Parliament into execution.
" His Majesty's Commissioners then proceeded to de:a.l
Hoe steps which they had drrus,A it expedient to adopt, for
the purpose of carrying into effect the duties intrusted to
(ben, particularly those which they had taken to 'Arlin
correct information as to the places in the metropolis and to
its vicinity, and also in what other parts of England nud
Wale' where the bounty of Parliament could be moat Lear.
Reinlly expended iir erecting chinches and chapels for the
performance of divine savvier, arcoldierg to the rites of the
United Church of Englaud and !Island, as by law eats-
'birthed.

" The Report three s►ts forth that his Majesty's Commis-
sioners, in order to obtain correct information as to the ex•
tent of populatuan, and the wai► of church arcoinmodstion,
in the several 'wishes and extra-parnebisl places, bad in-
vited their Lordships the Bishops to form District Board.
le their several dioceses, and had prepared insirut lions for
their use and iisfu.matiun. That they had also prescribed
the mode to be adopted by such t .niches as might be re-
titled to the bout fit of the Act, to applyiug fur aid according
to their several riresmstaurta The Report further stated,
that certain rules aced regulations, as directed by the Act,
had been drawn up fur the conduct of the general proceed.
togs of his Maillity.ll COMMlSSit.ilera, who had made such
other roles and regulations Mit they deemed eapedient and ne-
cessary to be lied aid koowo for the furtherance of the pur-
poses of the Act, the genital tenor of which is detailed in the
last Repoli.

The Report thew set forth the measures of precantion
which his Majesty's Commission'', had tsken to obtaia the
best possible as aaaaa cc of the stability of the buildings to be
erected by them, stud the beneficial consequences which had
accrued. A statement was also givea of the number of ap.
plicatioos which had been made fur aid; of the member of
those which came within the provisious of the Act; and of
those which bad been rejected, as out emit% wallies its en-
actments.

Allotted to the Report was a lilt of the places in which
his Majesty's Commissioners had deemed it expedient that
additional churchesor dispels should be built; the mane* of
the parishes or townships in which they were situate ; the
existing population and church accommodation; the number
of new churches or chapels proposed to be built, sod the
accommodation therein, as well in pews as in free seats fur
the use of the pour; the amount of the architects' estimate.
where the same had been received; the specific grants pro-
posed to be made in aid of the undertaking where parishes
subscribed part of the expeese; the probable amount of sub-
scriptious ; the sum then boned in Each, quer Bills, the loose
proposed to be made; and a statement whether the sites for
the proposed churches and chapels were provided or nut,
whether provided by gift or subscription. or oat of the Par-
liamentary Fund; also a calculation of the extent of the
probable expense of erecting the churches or chapels, and
the amount of loans proposed to be made by his Majesty'.
Commissioners.
" His Majesty's Commissioners annexed to such Report
various Schedules, chewing the places in which new churches
or chapels were then erecting, wit► extracts of reports from
the architects, of the state of the weeks at that time. A hat
was added of places where new churches or chapels were to
be built, and where his Majesty's Commissioners bad ap-
proved or plans, and where step were taking to obtain tendril,
pr.pa.atory to contracts being made; also a list of places
where plans hid been obtained, and were under the coniudern-
too of the Board, mud of other places where new chinches
or dispels were to be built, but where Wens had not been
delivered. A separate statement was also given or place:
where applications had been made in the Board foritid, which
could not be granted, from the apprehension that the Par-
liamentary Fund would be totally exhausted In the rumple-
ton of the churches sod chapels which they hail previously
proposed to build.
" His Majesty's Commissioners having thus recapitulated
the g I tenor or the Report already laid before Plllll5.
meat, will proceed to detail the progress which they bate
since made in the execution of their ditties.

" His Msjesty's Commissioners are gratified at being able
In report, that ten new churches or chapels have hero CUIll•
pitied at the following places:—at Blackburn, in the county
of Lancaster; Hilton, in 'be comity of Glourexter ; Birmiug.
ham, in the county of iVarwiek ; Walcot, in the city of
Bath; Chatham, in the county of Kent; Christchurch, is
the county of Soulliampion ; Oeweitry, in the county of
Salop; Stepney, in the county of Middlesex; Wandawooth,
in the county of Surrey; and in Regent-street, in the parish
of St. Jame', W•mmioster, in the county of Middlesex; in
which arcomrnoriatioa has been provided fur four thousand
and richtrone persons in pew., and for nine thousand owe
hundred sod furty.niae poor persons io free sesta; that the
churches or chapels at Blacklnesu, Hilton. Chatham, 0.-
westoy, and in Regent-street, St. James, Westminster, have
been coneeeral.d. and divine service is regularly perfoinnul
therein; and that the churches or chapel. at Borminghini,
%Yoko, Christchurch. and Wandsworth, will be conserrati
in the course of • very few weeks. That the rum to he paid
out of the parliamentary grant towards the expense tam et.
log these churches or chapels will amount to about sixty-five
thousand pounds.
" His sklajemy's Commissioners have further to report,
that at the under-mentioned thirty places, churches or
chapels are now building, most of which it will he ohm rverl,
by a reference to the Report of the Architect, contained in
a echedule hereto annexed, maoked .(B), will he comply trd
in the course of the present and the following yeas ; via. at
Ashton-under-Lyne, in the county of Lancaster; dnre at
Bordeahy, and another at Bardington, both in the parish of
Arlon, in the county of Warwick ; at Biometry, iu the
comely of York ; on the parish of St. Aognatine, in tin•
city of Bristol ; Chelsea, in the county of
Padsey, in the pariah of Cidverley, iu the county of
York ; Camberwell, in the county of Surrey ; Hackney.
in the county of Middlesex; Havrarden in the roomy
of Flint; Kidderminster, in the county of Worcester; too
in the parish of Lambeth, in the county of Surrey; tietne4,
one at Brixton; and the other at Kenningtoo; Tyldestry, ru
the parish of Leigh, in the county of Lancaster; Hoghton,
In the parish of Layl,ind, it, the comity of Lancaster; two
in the parish of Saint Mary-le.botte, in the couuty of Mid-
dlesex; namely, one In ITyndham-plare, and the other so
Linehan, place; at Mancireeter, in the county of Lancaati • ;
Nottingham, in the county of Nottingham Nuneaton, to
the county of Warwick; in the parish of San I Luke,
street, in the comity of Middlesex; Piestwielh in the
county of Lancaster; Porteea, in the county of Smilhanii.
ton; two in the parish of Saint Pancras, in the county of
Middlesex; namely, one in Regent's-squire, and the oilier
in Somers Town; S'orkport, in the county of Lancaster;
in BrosoLlam, in the town of Sheffield, to. the wooly of
York; West Bromwich, iu the county of Stafford; Work.
legion, in the county of Cumberland; and 4 Stanley, in the
perish of Waki Geld, in the county of York. These {burettes
and chapels will milord accommodation fur tweaks, two thou-
sand font hundred and seventy-foor persons in pews; mat
for twenty-five thousand tom buadoed and demo pour per.
sons in free seats ,„
the last Report his Majesty's Comeniabbratres Meted,
that they had thought it •dvuable, with thmviewilf calling
forth a general competition, and of bringing Sword profes-
sional talent ip various parts of be cosoky, *am trr piano
from the applicants under the direction of geic seeetxt
local Committees; mid that haviog foiled it Impositbk,
at their General Board, to examine minutely into the
details of the several plaus submitted to them, in respect

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