CANON XXXVI.

Of Clergymen Ordained by Foreign Bishops, and desirous of officiating or settling in this Church.

A Clergyman coming from a foreign country, and professing to be regularly ordained, shall before he be permitted to officiate in any parish or congregation, exhibit to the Minister, or if there be no Minister, to the Vestry thereof, a certificate, signed by the Bishop of the diocess, or, if there be no Bishop, by a majority of the Standing Committee duly convened, that his letters of orders are authentic, and given by some Bishop whose authority is ac knowledged by this Church; and also, that he has exhibited to the Bishop or Standing Committee satisfactory evidence of his pious and moral character, and of his theological acquirements. And should he be guilty of any unworthy conduct, he shall be liable to presentment and trial. And in any case, before he shall be entititled to settle in any parish or church as the minister thereof, the Bishop or Ecclesiastical authority of the diocess, must obtain satisfactory evidence of his respectable standing in the Church there -and he must also have resided one year in the United States.

And if any such foreign Clergyman shall remove from one diocess to another, before one year have expired, he shall not be allowed by the ecclesiastical authority of the diocess to which he goes, to officiate in said diocess till he shall have complied with the requisitions of the Canon concerning Ministers removing from one diocess or state to another.

CANON XXXVII.

To prevent a Congregation in any Diocess or State from uniting with a Church in any other Diocess or State.

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Whereas a question may arise, whether a congregation within the diocess of any Bishop, or within any state or diocess in which there is not yet any Bishop settled, may unite themselves with the Church in any other diocess or state; it is hereby determined and declared, that all such unions shall be considered as irregular and void and that every congregation of this Church shall be considered as belonging to the body of the Church of the diocess, or of the state within the limits of which they dwell, or within which there is seated a Church to which they belong. And no Clergyman having a Parish or Cure in more than one state or diocess, shall have a seat in the convention of any state or diocess, other than that in which he resides.*

CANON XXXVIII.

To empower the Bishop in each Diocess or District to compose Forms of Prayer or Thanksgiving, for extraordinary Occasions. The Bishop of each diocess or district may compose forms of prayer or thanksgiving, as the case may require, for extraordinary occasions, and transmit them to each clergyman within his diocess or district, whose duty it shall be to use such forms in his church on

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such occasions. And the clergy in those states or diocesses in which there is no Bishop, may use the form of prayer or thanksgiving composed by the Bishop of any other state or diocess.

CANON XXXIX.

Of the due Celebration of Sundays.

All persons within this church shall celebrate and keep the Lord's day, commonly called Sunday, in hearing the Word of God. read and taught, in private and public prayer, in other exercises of devotion, and in acts of charity, using all godly and sober con

versation.

CANON XL.

Ministers to keep a Register.

Every minister of this church shall keep a register of baptisms, marriages, and funerals, within his cure, agreeably to such rules as may be provided by the ecclesiastical authority where his cure lies; and if none such be provided, then in such a manner as, in his discretion, he shall think best suited to the uses of such a register.

And the intention of the register of baptisms is hereby declared to be, as for other good uses, so especially for the proving of the right of church membership of those who may have been admitted into this church by the holy ordinance of baptism.

And further, every minister of this church shall, within a reasonable time after the publication of this canon, make out and continue a list of all adult persons within his cure, to remain for the use of his successor, to be continued by him, and by every future minister in the same parish.

And no minister shall place on the said list the names of any persons, except of those who, on due inquiry, he shall find to have been baptised in this church; or who, having been otherwise baptised, shall have been received into this church, either by the holy rite of confirmation, or by receiving the holy communion, or by some other joint acts of the parties, and of a minister of this church, whereby such persons shall have attached themselves to

the same.

CANON XLI.

A List to be made, and Published, of the Ministers of this Church. The secretary of the General Convention 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 diocess or district, shall, at the time of every general Convention, deliver, or cause to be delivered to the secretary, a list of the names of all the ministers of this church in their proper diocess or district, annexing the names of their respective cures, or of their stations in any colleges or other incorporated 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.

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 notifying 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.

CANON XLII.

Of the mode of calling Special Meetings of the General Convention.

The right of calling special meetings of the General Convention 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, ex pressed to him in writing.

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 to be judged of by the Bishops, shall render a meeting at such place unsafe; in which case the Bishops shall appoint some other place.

CANON XLIII.

Prescribing the mode of publishing authorized Editions of the Book of Common Prayer, &c.

The Bishop of this Church, in any state or diocess, or where there is no Bishop, the Standing Committee, are authorized to appoint, from time to time, some suitable person or persons, to compare and correct all new editions of the Common Prayer Book, Book of Offices, &c. by some standard book; and a certificate of their having been so compared and corrected shall be published with said books. And in case any edition shall be published without such correction, it shall be the duty of the Bishop, or where there is no Bishop, of the Standing Committee, to give public notice that such edition is not authorized by the Church.

The edition of the Articles of Religion set forth by the Bishop of this Church in Pennsylvania, agreeably to the order of the General Convention of 1804, shall be the standard copy. The octavo edition of the Common Prayer Book, published in NewYork in 1793, by Hugh Gaine, and the quarto edition of the Book of Offices, &c. of the same year, published in the same place, are hereby established as standard books, with the exception of errors evidently typographical; the correction of which errors is confided to such person or persons as the Bishop or Standing Committee may appoint for superintending any publication.

CANON XLIV.

Concerning the mode of transmitting notice of all matters submitted by the General Convention to the consideration of the State or Diocessan Convention.

It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the General Convention, whenever any alteration of the constitution is proposed, or any other subject submitted to the consideration of the several state or diocessan conventions, to give a particular notice thereof to the ecclesiastical authority of this church in every state or diocess.

CANON XLV.

Providing for an accurate view of the state of the Church from

time to time.

As a full and accurate view of the state of the Church, from time to time, is highly useful and necessary, it is hereby ordered, that every Minister of this Church shall present or forward, at every annual convention, to the Bishop of the diocess, or, where there is no Bishop, to the president of the convention, a statement of the number of baptisms, marriages, and funerals, and of the number of communicants in his parish or church, and of all other matter that may throw light on the state of the same: and these parochial reports shall be read and entered on the Journals of the Convention.

At every annual state or diocessan convention, the Bishop shall deliver an address, stating the affairs of the diocess since the last meeting of the convention, the names of the churches which he has visited; the number of persons confirmed; the names of those who have been received as candidates for orders, and of those who have been ordained, suspended, or degraded; the changes by death, removal, or otherwise which have taken place among the clergy; and, in general, all matters tending to throw light on the affairs of the diocess; which address shall be inserted on the Journals.

At every general convention, the journals of the different state conventions since the last general convention, together with such other papers, viz. Episcopal charges, addresses, and pastoral letters, as may tend to throw light on the state of the church in each diocess, shall be presented to the House of Clerical and Lay-Deputies. And the parochial reports inserted on those journals, together with the Episcopal addresses, shall be read in the said house. And a particular inquiry shall be instituted into the state of the church in each diocess, and particularly into the attention paid to the Canons and rules of the Church. A committee shall then be appointed to draw up a view of the state of the Church, and to make report to the House of Clerical and Lay-Deputies; which report, when agreed to by the said House, shall be sent to the House of Bishops, with a request, that they will draw up and cause to be published, a pastoral letter to the members of the Church.

It shall be the duty of the secretary of the convention of every diocess or state, or of the person or persons with whom the journals or other ecclesiastical papers are lodged, to forward to the house of clerical and lay-deputies, at every general convention, the documents and papers specified in this canon.*.

CANON XLVI.

Providing for making known the Constitution and Canons of the

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ADDITIONAL CANONS.

CANON

Concerning the Alms and Contributions at the Holy Communion, passed in Gen. Con. 1814.

Whereas, it appears, that no direction has been made, as to the mode in which the alms and contributions at the administration of the Holy Communion are to be applied: It is hereby declared, that they shall be deposited with the Minister of the Parish, or with such 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 be thought fit.

CANON

For carrying into Effect the Design of the second Rubric before the Communion Service; passed in Gen. Con. 1817.

There being the provision in the second Rubric before the Communion Service, requiring that every Minister repelling from the Communion, shall give an account of the same to the Ordinary; it is hereby provided, that on the information to the effect stated being laid before the Ordinary, that is the Bishop, it shall not be his duty to institute an inquiry, unless there be complaint made to him in writing by the expelled party. But on receiving complaint, it shall be the duty of the Bishop to institute an inquiry as may be directed by the Canons of the Diocess in which the event has taken place. And the notice given as above by the Minister shall be a sufficient presentation of the party expelled, for the purpose of trial.

CANON

To govern in the Case of a Minister declaring that he will no longer be a Minister of this Church; passed in Gen. Con. 1817. If any Minister of this Church shall declare to the Bishop of the Diocess to which he belongs, or to any Ecclesiastical authority for

*CANON, Repealing part of the 45th Canon, passed in Gen. Con. 1814. That part of the 45th Canon of 1808, which requires that the Parochial Reports inserted on the Journals of each State or Diocessan Convention, shall be read in the House of Clerical and Lay-Deputies in General Convention, is hereby Repealed.

+ CANON, Repealing the 46th Canon, passed in Gen. Con. 1811.

The 46th Canon, providing for making known the Constitution and Canons of the Church, is hereby repealed.