The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-10-17

canons to consider the canon relating to
the admission Of candidates to ministry, 30
as to render the admission Of unsuitable
persons more difficult. He moved also that
the Committee on Canons be the joint COM
mittee on the part of this house. Adopted.
A resolution admitting the corporation of
this church, and also Of Trinity, to seats
on the floor Of this Convention was adopted.
DR.. Haight announced that he had official
invitations for the members of the Conven-
ton from the Aston, Mercantile, and Histo.
RIGA! libraries, and he hoped the deputies
would avail themselves of them.
Adjourned.
THURSDAY MORNINGS PROCEEDINGS.
The Committee on New Dioceses, through
its chairman, the Rev. Thomas C. Pitkin.
D. D., of Michigan, reported an amended
resolution creating and admitting the new
diocese in the western part of New York.
The resolution was adopted.
The Special Committee on Provincial
Systems reported in favor of primary or
carnations of the dioceses into provincial
councils.
The report terminated with resolution
recommending the subdivision of the
Church Of the United States into six pro-
vinces that the conventions thereof shall
be known by the name Of the National
Synod, and that select committee of FIVE
be nominated to draft new constitution for
the National Church. Benjamin J Haight,
of New York, for the Committee on Canonb,
reported resolution in effect that the
House of Delegates concur in the amend
ment proposed by the House of Bishops to
section 2, canon 10, title lst, by striking
out the word three " and inserting in its
place the word "one," as follows:
"And if such foreign clergyman be
deacon he shall reside in this country at
least three years, and obtain in this coun
try the requisite testimonials of character,
before he be ordained priest
The resolution was adopted.
The Rev. Mr.. Haight, for the same COM
mittee, reported in favor of new canon in
lieu of section 5, canon Is, title 1st, and on
his own motion the report was laid on the
table.
The same gentleman, for the same COM
mittee, reported in favor of new canon, to
be entitled I" Canon on the Conservation Of
Churches" 1t forbids the conservation of
any edifce to the purpose Of divine wor-
ship by any Bishop unless he is satisfied
the building is free from debt; the use Of
such building for purposes other than
those to which it is dedicated and its
being taken down without the consent Of
the Bishop of the diocese.
A motion was made that the report and
resolution of the Committee on Provincial
Systems be referred to select committee of
five, with instructions to report during the
session Of this Convention.
The Rev. Daniel Henshaw, of Rhode
Island, offered a resolution that the Com
mittee on Canons be requested to consider
the expediency of amending canon 5, title
3, by adding after the words ecclesiasti-
cal authority" in the fourteenth line Of the
second paragraph, the words "consent to
such formation or establishment shall be
considered as granted unless refused within
three months after the ecclesiastical autho-
rity has been duly notified of the intention
from any such parish"
The resolution was referred to the Com
mittee on Canons.
The hour for the order of the day hay
ing arrived, the Rev. B. J. Haight, for the
Committee on Canons, to whom were re-
ferred several memorials praying for an
amendment o. repeal of the third clause of
Article of the Constitution, reported the
following resolution
ReS0lred, the House Of Bishops concur
ring, That the alteration of the Constitu
ton together with the amendment Of the
canons) recommended in the succeeding
resolution be proposed, and that the same
be made known to the several Diocesan
Conventions, in pursuance Of Article of
the Constitution-yiZ:
4" ReSolUed, That Article Of the Consti
tuition be amended 50 as to read as follows:
"a Protestant Episcopal Church in any
Of the United States, or any territory, not
now represented, may at any time here
after be admitted on acceding to this Con-
stitution and new diocese, to be formed
from one or more existing dioceses, may be
admitted under the following restrictions
"No new diocese shall be formed or
erected within the limits of any other do
cese, nor shall any diocese be formed by
the junction Of two or more dioceses, or
parts Of dioceses, unless with the consent
OF the Bishop and Convention Of each of the
diocescs concerned, as well as of the Gene
raj Convention, and such consent shall not
be given by the General Convention until
satisfactory assurance of a suitable provi-
sion for the support of the episcopate IN the
contemplated new diocese shall have been
given and accepted.
{" No city shall form more than one do
cese.
In case one diocese shall be divided
into two or more dioceses, the diocesan of
the diocese divided may elect to one to
which he will be attached, and shall there
upon become the diocesan thereof, and the
assistant bishop, if there be one, may elect
the one to which he will be attached and
if it be not the one elected by the Bishop,
he shall be the diocesan thereof.
Whenever the division of diocese into
two or more dioceses shall be ratified by the
General Convention, each Of the dioceses |
shall be subject to the Constitution and |
Canons of the diocese so divided, except as
local circumstances may prevent, until the |
same may be altered in either diocese by |
the convention thereof. And whenever q |
diocese shall be formed out of two or more |
existing dioceses, the new diocese shall be |
subject to the Constitution and Canons OF
that one of the said existing dioceses to
which the greater number Of clergymen
shall have belonged prior to the erection of
such new diocese until the same may be |
altered by the convention Of the new do
cese And further
RESOLVED, That the following be adopted
as new canon to section 4 OF canon OF
title 3:
"No new diocese shall be formed which
shall contain less than six parishes, or less |
than six presbyters, who have been at least |
800 ,,,,, co,on;coll,, raci1ant within thp |