Diocese may also compose forms of Prayer to be used before legislative and other public bodies.

CANON XLVIII.-Of a List of the Ministers of this Church.

[Former Canons on this subject were the sixteenth of 1789; the first of 1792; and the forty-first of 1808.]

Sect. 1. The Secretary of the House of Clerical and Lay Deputies shall keep a register of all the Clergy of this Church, whose names shall be delivered to him in the following manner that is to say, every Bishop of this Church, or where there is no Bishop, the Standing Committee of the Diocese, shall, at the time of every General Convention, deliver or cause to be delivered, to the said Secretary, a list of the names of all the Ministers of this Church in their proper Diocese, annexing the names of their respective Cures, or of their stations in any Colleges or other Seminaries of Learning; or, in regard to those who have not any Cures or such stations, their places of residence only. And the said list shall, from time to time, be published on the Journals of the General Convention.

Sect. 2. And further it is recommended to the several Bishops of this Church, and to the several Standing Committees, that, during the intervals between the meetings of the General Convention, they take such means of notify. ing the admission of Ministers among them, as, in their discretion respectively, they shall think effectual to the purpose of preventing ignorant and unwary people from being imposed on, by persons pretending to be authorized Ministers of this Church.

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CANON XLIX.-Of the Mode of calling Special Meetings of the General Convention.

[Former Canons on this subject were the first of 1799, and the forty-second of 1808.]

Sect. 1. The right of calling Special Meetings of the General Conventions shall be in the Bishops. This right shall be exercised by the presiding Bishop, or, in case of his death, by the Bishop, who according to the rules of the House of Bishops, is to preside at the next General Convention; provided that the summons shall be with the consent, or on the requisition of a majority of the Bishops, expressed to him in writing.

Sect. 2. The place of holding any Special Convention shall be that fixed on by the preceding General Convention for the meeting of the next General Convention, unless circumstances shall render a meeting at such a place unsafe; in which case the presiding Bishop may appoint some other place.

Sect. 3. The Deputies elected to the preceding General Convention shall be Deputies at such Special Convention, unless in those cases in which other Deputies shall be chosen in the meantime by any of the Diocesan Conventions, and then such other Deputies shall represent, in the Special Convention, the Church of the Diocese in which they have been chosen.

CANON L.-Of the Mode of transmitting Notice of all Matters submitted by the General Convention to the Consideration of the Diocesan Conventions.

[The former Canon on this subject was the forty-fourth of 1808.]

It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the House of Clerical and Lay Deputies, whenever any alteration of the

Constitution is proposed, or any other subject submitted to the consideration of the several Diocesan Conventions, to give a particular notice thereof to the ecclesiastical authority of this Church in every Diocese.

CANON LI.-Of the Mode of securing an accurate View of the State of the Church from time to time.

[Repealed by the seventh Canon of 1835.]

CANON LII.-Of the Alms and Contributions at the Holy Communion.

[The former Canon on this subject was the first of 1814.]

The Alms and Contributions at the Administration of the Holy Communion, shall be deposited with the Minister of the Parish, or with such Church Officer as shall be appointed by him, to be applied by the Minister, or under his superintendence, to such pious and charitable uses as shall by him be thought fit.

CANON LIII.-Of the Requisites of a Quorum.

In all cases in which a Canon directs a duty to be performed, or a power to be exercised, by a Standing Committee, or by the Clerical Members thereof, or by any other body consisting of several members, a majority of the said members, the whole having been duly cited to meet, shall be a Quorum: and a majority of the Quorum so convened, shall be competent to act, unless the contrary is expressly required by the Canon.

CANON LIV.-Of Defraying the Expenses of the General Convention.

[Repealed by the eighth Canon of 1835.]

CANON LV. Of the Trustees of the General Theological Seminary.

It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Convention of every Diocese, to forward to the House of Clerical and Lay Deputies, at every General Convention, a Certificate, stating the exact number of Clergymen in the Diocese, and the amount of funds paid, or secured to be paid therein, to the General Theological Seminary, and also the nomination by the Diocese of a Trustec or Trustees for said Seminary, and without such Certificate the nomination shall not be confirmed.

CANON LVI.-Repealing former Canons.

All former Canons of this Convention not included in these Canons, are hereby repealed.

CANONS

FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL

CHURCH OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

Passed in General Convention, in Philadelphia, August, 1835.

CANON I.-Of the Election of Bishops.

[Repealed by the first Canon of 1838.]

CANON IL-Of Missionary Bishops.

[Repealed by the second Canon of 1838.]

CANON III. Of those who have Officiated, without Episcopal Ordination, as Ministers among other Denominations of Christians, and apply for Orders in this Church.

[Repealed by the seventh Canon of 1838.]

CANON IV.-Of Ministers removing from one Diocese to another.

[Former Canons on this subject were the third of 1804; the thirtyfirst of 1808; the fourth of 1829, and the thirty-fifth of 1832.]

Sect. 1. No Minister removing from one Diocese to another, or coming from any State or Territory which may not have acceded to the Constitution of this Church, shall be received as a stated officiating Minister by any Parish of this Church, until he shall have presented to the Vestry thereof, a certificate from the ecclesiastical authority of the Diocese to which said Parish belongs, approving him as a Clergyman in regular standing. And in order to obtain such certificate, every Minister desiring to change