above process may be adopted, or the following instead thereof, viz.: The standing committee of the diocese electing, shall give duly certified evidence of the election to every bishop of this church, and to the standing committee of every diocese. On receiving notice of the concurrence of a majority of the bishops, and a majority of the standing committees, in the election, and their express consent thereto, the standing committee of the diocese concerned, shall transmit notice thereof to every bishop of this church, and to the standing committee of each vacant diocese, which notice shall state what bishops and what standing committees have consented to the election. And the same committee shall transmit to every congregation in the diocese concerned, to be publicly read therein, a notice of the election to the episcopate thereof of the bishop thus elected; and also cause public notice thereof to be given in such other way as they may think proper.

SECT. 3. When, agreeably to the first section of the 1st canon of 1838, a diocese requests the General Convention to elect a bishop for the same, if the house of bishops should nominate a missionary bishop to the house of clerical and lay deputies, a vote of the said house of deputies concurring in the nomination, shall complete the election of the said missionary bishop to the diocesan charge of the diocese concerned.

CANON IV. Of the Trial of Bishops.

SECT. 1. A bishop may be presented to the bishops of this church, by the convention of his diocese, for any crime or immorality, for heresy or for violation of the constitution or canons of this church, or of the diocese to which he belongs, provided always, that two-thirds of each order, clergy and laity, concur in the same. He may also be presented to the bishops, by any three bishops.

SECT. 2. The presentment shall be addressed to the Presiding Bishop, who shall give notice with all convenient speed to the several bishops then being within the territory of the United States, appointing a time and place for their assembling together; and any number thereof, being not less than seven, other than the bishop presenting, then and there assembled, shall be a quorum, for the purpose of ordering all matters concerning the said presentment. But if the Presiding Bishop be the subject of the presentment, it shall be addressed to the next bishop in the order of seniority.

CANON V. Of the Preparatory Exercises of a Candidate for Deacons Orders.

[Former Canons on this subject were the sixth of 1795, and the tenth of 1808.]

SECT. 1. There shall be assigned to every candidate for deacons' orders, three different examinations, at such times and places as the bishop to whom he applies for orders shall appoint. The examination shall take place in the presence of the bishop and two or more presbyters, on the following studies prescribed by the canons, and by the course of study established by the house of bishops. At the first examination, on the books of Scripture: the candidate being required to give an account of the different books, and to translate from the original Hebrew and Greek, and to explain such passages as may be proposed to him. At the second examination-on the evidences of Christianity, and systematic divinity. And at the last examination—on church history, ecclesiastical polity, the book of common prayer, and the constitution and canons of the church, and of the diocese for which he is to be ordained. In the choice of books on the above subjects, the candidate is to be guided by the course of study established by the house of bishops. At each of the forementioned examinations, he shall produce and read a sermon or discourse, composed by himself, on some passage of Scripture previously assigned him, which, together with two other sermons or discourses, on some passages of Scripture selected by himself, shall be submitted to the criticisms of the bishop and clergy present. And before his ordination, he shall be required to perform such exercises in reading, in the presence of the bishop and clergy, as may enable them to give him such advice and instructions as may aid him in performing the service of the church, and in delivering his sermons, with propriety and devotion.

SECT. 2. The bishop may appoint some of his presbyters to conduct the above examinations; and a certificate from these presbyters, that the prescribed examinations have been held accordingly, and satisfaction given, shall be required of the candidate provided that, in this case, the candidate shall, before his ordination, be examined by the bishop, and two or more presbyters, on the above-named studies.

SECT. 3. In a diocese where there is no bishop, the standing committee shall act in his place, in appointing the examining presbyters required by this canon; and in this case the candidate shall be again examined by the bishop to whom he applies for orders, and two or more presbyters, on the studies prescribed by the canons.

SECT. 4. A clergyman who presents a person to the bishop for orders, as specified in the office of ordination, without having good grounds to believe that the requisitions of the canons have been complied with, shall be liable to ecclesiastical censure. SECT. 5. The 14th canon of 1832 is hereby repealed.

CANON VI. Of Clergymen ordained by Foreign Bishops in Communion with this Church, and desirous of Officiating or Settling in this Church.

[Former Canons on this subject were the ninth of 1789, the fifth of 1804, and the thirty-sixth of 1803; see also the twenty-fourth of the present Canons.] SECT. 1. 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 diocese, or, if there be no bishop, the standing committee, duly convened, that his letters of orders are authentic, and given by some bishop in communion with this church, and whose authority is acknowledged by this church; and also that he has exhibited to the bishop or standing commitce, satisfactory evidence of his pious and moral character, and hs theological acquirements; and, in any case, before he shall te permitted to settle in any church or parish, or be received into union with any diccese of this church as a minister thereof, he shall produce to the bishop, or, if there be no bishop, the standing committee of such diocese a letter of dismission from under the hand and seal of the bishop with whose diocese he has been last connected; which letter shall be, in substance, that provided for in section 1st of canon 4th of 1835, and shall be delivered within six months from the date thereof; and when such clergyman shall have been so received, he shall be considered as having passed entirely from the jurisdiction of the bishop from whom the letter of dismission was brought, to the full jurisdiction of the bishop, or other ecclesiastical authority, by whom it shall have been accepted, and become thereby subject to all the canonical provisions of this church; provided that no such clergyman shall be so received into union with any diocese, until he shall have subscribed, in the presence of the bishop of the diocese in which he applies for reception, and of two or more presbyters, the Declaration contained in the seventh article of the constitution ; which being done, said bishop, or standing committee, being satisfied of his theological acquirements, may receive him into union with this church, as a minister of the same: provided also, that such minister shall not be entitled to settle in any parish or

church, as canonically in charge of the same, until he have resided one year in the United States, subsequent to the acceptance of his letter of dismission.

SECT. 2. And if such foreign clergyman be a deacon, he shall reside in this country at least three years, and obtain, in this country, the requisite testimonials of character, before he be ordained a priest.

SECT. 3. The 23d canon of 1832 is hereby repealed.

CANON VII. Of Ministers Removing from one Diocese to

another.

[Former Canons on this subject were the third of 1804, the thirty-first of 1808, the fourth of 1829, the thirty-fifth of 1832, and the fourth of 1835.]

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 be longs, approving him as a clergyman in regular standing. And in order to obtain such certificate, every minister desiring to change his canonical residence shall lay before the ecclesiastical authority of the diocese in which he designs to reside, a testimonial from the ecclesiastical authority of the diocese in which he has last resided, in the following form, viz. :

"I hereby certify, that A. B., who has signified to me his desire to be transferred to the diocese of is a presbyter (or deacon) of this diocese, in regular standing, and has not, so far as I know or believe, been justly liable to evil report for error in religion, or viciousness of life, during the three years last past."

When the ecclesiastical authority think proper, further statements may be added to the above letter.

SECT. 2. But in case the minister desiring to be transferred has been subjected to inquiry or presentment on any charge or charges of misconduct, thereby rendering the terms of the afore said testimonial inadmissible, he may, nevertheless, be transferred, if the charges have been withdrawn with the approbation of the ecclesiastical authority, or if he have been acquitted upon trial, or if he have been censured or suspended, and the sentence has had its course, so that he has been restored to the regular discharge of his official duties. And in all such cases, the ecclesiastical authority of the diocese concerned, shall, instead of the foregoing testimonial, certify to a statement of the facts, with as

much detail as may be necessary to inform the ecclesiastical att thority to which he desires to be transferred of the true standing of the party.

SECT. 3. No clergyman, canonically under the jurisdiction of any diocese of this church, shall be considered as having passed from under said jurisdiction, to that of any foreign bishop, or in any way ceased to be amenable to the laws of this church, until he shall have taken from the bishop with whose diocese he was last connected in this church, or from the standing committee of such diocese, if it have no bishop, the letter provided for in the 1st section of this canon, and until the same shall have been accepted by some other bishop, either of this or some other church.

SECT. 4. The ecclesiastical authority, in all cases under this canon, is to be understood to refer to the bishop of the diocese ; or, in case there be no bishop, to the majority of the clerical mem bers of the standing committee, duly convened. And if the clergyman desiring to be received come from a State or Territory not in connection with this church, and having no convention, then the above testimonial or statement shall be signed by at least three presbyters of this church. Nor shall any minister, so removing, be acknowledged by any bishop or convention as a minister of the church to which he removes, until he shall have produced the aforesaid testimonial or statement.

SECT. 5. The above testimonial, or letter of dismission, shall not affect the canonical residence of the minister receiving it, until he shall be received into some other diocese by the bishop or ecclesiastical authority thereof.

SECT. 6. Whenever any bishop of this church, or, where there is no bishop, the clerical members of the standing committee, shall give letters of dismission to any clergyman of the dio cese proposing to remove into another; the bishop, or, where there is no bishop, the clerical members of the standing commit tee shall give notice of the same to the bishop or ecclesiastical authority to whom the letters of dismission are directed; and if the clergyman to whom the letters of dismission are given shall not present them to the bishop or ecclesiastical authority to whom they are directed, within three months after he shall have taken up his abode in the diocese to which he has removed, the letters of dismission shall be null and void.

SECT. 7. The 4th canon of 1835 is hereby repealed.