Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-05-18

unhappy social complications. With the
hearty approval Of the bishops and select
committee q constitutional law and also n
canon was prepared 20 regulate the repre-
sentation OF the colored people. This le-
gislation has produced much comment
and its final disposition will be an import
ant part of the work OF tho coming coun-
Gil in Fredericksburg. The constitutional
change which was enacted at the last coun-
Gil IL as follows:
ARTICLE II.
Section I. The council shall be composed
Of the bishop and the assistant bishop, If
there be one, and the ministers (being
white) who now are or may hereafter be
economically settled in parishes or churches
within this diocese. professors Of the Theo-
within this diocese and under its ecclesias-
tical authority, being clergymen Of the
Church and canonically connected with
this diocese; provided that any such min
listers who may have been so economically
settled up 20 the time of disability, but
whom age OF infrmity prevents from exer-
clsing their clerical functions, shall be
members or oficio; provided further that
no minister under ecclesiastical censure or
process shall be entitled TO "a seat in the
council. and no minister shall be entitled
unless he has been economically connected
with the diocese for six calendar months
preceding.
Section 2. Tho council shall also be COM
posed of lay members (being white) con-
slsting of one delegate for each parish or
church. chosen by the vestry thereof
Every parish or church having more than
one officiating minister canonically settled
shall be entitled 10 send ne many lay dele
gates rs II has ministers and in every case
the delegate or delegates shall be commu-
nicants in the Church.
Section 3. The council shall yet further
be composed Of four clerical delegates
from the colOred missionary jurisdiction Of
the diocese as constituted under Canon
XIII. of colored mission churches. The
colored clergy now connected with tho
diocese shall, however, retain their right
70 q seat and voice in the council.
1t is on the further amendment of this
article that the council has to give its
final vote this year. That amendment Is
az follows The omission Of the words in
brackets being white" in the first two
sections and substituting the following for
section 3.
ooLoRED MINISTERS.
The council shall also be composed Of
the cOlored ministers, having a seat and
voice IN the council on the 18th day Of
May, 1889. and of two clerical and two lay
delegates from the cOlOrtd missionary Ju-
risdictiOn of the diocese, as tho same is
now OF may hereafter be constituted by
canon
This is a constitutional change, and has
required two years 20 effect il.
PROPoRTIOSAL REPRESENTATION.
The present council may consider the
question of proportionate representation
in the National Convention. At present
the small ana large dioceses send the same
number OF delegates. so that Arkansas,
with about 1000 or 500 communicates,
can negative the vote Of Virginia or New
York. Questions in regard to the changes
in the new liturgy mag be considered.
These changes are nearly all optional with
the rector, and are 90 few that it would
take verv-well-drilled Episcopalian to
show the difference between the revised
Prayer Book and the old one Of 1889.