THE GAZETTE, AUGUST 29, 1882. 4005 shall consist of the county of authority and control of the Bit-hop of Durham aud the counties of the towns of Newcastle-upon- and shall be under and subject to the episcopal - Tyne and Berwick-upon-Tweed and shall include jurisdiction authority and control of the Bishop of such detached parts "of any other county as are Newcastle and his successors. under any Act of deemed to form " (3.) Until a Dean and Chapter of and for the . part of the county of Northumberland or have said Cathedral Church of Saint Nicholas at New- been or can be transferred to the county of castle-upon-Tyne shall have been created, the Northumberland by the Justices in General or Bishop of the may as to any Quarter Sessions assembled, and shall include also and every matter with respect to which the con- the ancient common law parish of Alston with firmation or other agency of a Dean and Chapter- its chapelries in the county of Cumberland. is by law required for rendering effectual the " And whereas on the thirtieth day of June action of a Bishop, take action in such matter one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two without any such confirmation or agency and his Letters Patent were passed under the Great Seal action so taken shall not be thereby made ineffec- of the United Kingdom for constituting the tual or invalid. borough of Newcastle-upon-Tyne a city. " (4.) During any and every vacancy in the " And whereas by the said Order of Your See of Newcastle Avhether such vacancy shall Mnjesty in Council the parish church of Saint happen before or after the creation of a Dean and Nicholas in the town and borough (now the city) Chapter of and for the said Cathedral Church of of Newcastle-upon-Tyne aforesaid was (subject Saint Nicholas at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the to the rights of the patron and incumbent of the for the time being shall have same church) declared to be the Cathedral Church the custody and be the guardian of the spiritualities of the Bishopric of Newcastle. of the See of Newcastle. " And whereas by the same Order the Bishop " (o.) The archidiaconal supervision of all the of Newcastle was constituted a body corporate parishes ecclesiastical districts and places com- and was invested with all such'rights privileges prised within the diocese of Newcastle shall and jurisdictions as are possessed by any other remain and be with and in and be exercised by Bishop in England and was subjected to the juris- the archdeacons of the two archdeaconries com- diction of the Archbishop of York as Metro- prised within the limits of that diocese as at politan. present existing in accordance with the said Order " And whereas by the seventh section of the of Your Majesty in Council bearing date the said Act it is enacted that whenever a certain seventeenth day of May one thousand eight certificate shall have been given to Your Majesty hundred and eighty-two that is to say the Arch- by us the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners for deacon of Northumberland, and the Archdeacon of England with respect to the endowment fund of each of which said two Archdeacons any new bishopric in the said Act mentioned we shall be an officer of the diocese of Newcastle and shall lay before Your Majesty a scheme for all shall not be subject to the episcopal jurisdiction of or any of the matters which in the same section the but shall be subject to the are mentioned. episcopal jurisdiction of the Bishop of Newcastle "And whereas the said certificate has been and the archidiaconal dignity of each of which given by us in the case of the Bishopric of New- said two archdeacons shall be transferred from the castle as by the said Order of Your Majesty in Cathedral Church of Durham to the Cathedral Council of the seventeenth day of May one thou- Church of the diocese of Newcastle that is to say sand eight hundred and eighty-two appears. to the aforesaid Cathedral Church of Saint " Now therefore we the said Ecclesiastical Nicholas at Newcastle-upon-Tyne and all the Commissioners for England humbly recommend endowments belonging to the said two arch- and propose as follows ; namely :— deaconries respectively shall continue to belong to "(1.) The Bishop for the time being of New- the same respectively notwithstanding the trans- castle shall have all such courts and officers and fer of the same two archdeaconries from the all such jurisdiction as are at present or were at to the diocese of Newcastle. the time of the publication in the London Gazette "((j.) Any existing archdeacon whose arch-1 of the said Order of Your Majesty in Council of deaconry is affected by the foundation of the new the seventeenth day of May one thousand eight Bishopric of Newcastle may reside in any place in hundred and eighty-two possessed by the Bishop which he is residing at the date of this scheme. of the diocese of Durham within the area " (7.) The portion of the endowment or income assigned by the same Order as the diocese of the of the Bishopric of Durham which in the third Bishopric of Newcastle and all terriers tithe section of the said Act and in the schedule to the apportionments maps plans and other documents same Act is mentioned (being such portion of the relating exclusively to any parish or parishes same endowment or income as will if no deduction ecclesiastical districts or places situate within the were made for first fruits and tenths yield a net diocese of Newcastle or otherwise relating ex- annual sum of one thousand pounds) shall (as the clusively to the said diocese (that is to say to the said Act and section enacts that it shall) as from area or any part of the area thereof) shall be the twenty-third dny of May in the year one transferred from the custody of the Registrar or thousand eight hundred and eighty-two being the other officer of the diocese of Durham in whose day on which the said Order of Your Majesty in custody the same now are and shall become and Council was published in the London Gazette as be in the custody of such Registrar or other officer aforesa'd and without any conveyance or assur- or officers of the diocese of Newcastle as the ance in the law other than this scheme and any Bishop of Newcastle shall appoint in that behalf. duly gazetted Order of Your Majesty in Council " (2.) All parishes ecclesiastical districts and ratifying the same be transferred from the Bishop places churches and chapels and all the clergy and of Durham and from his successors, and shall for others Your Majesty's subjects within the limits ever become and be and form part of the New- of the diocese of Newcastle as the same diocese is castle Bishopric endowment fund, so as to become defined by the said Order of Your Majesty in part of the annual income of the Bishop of New- Council of the seventeenth day of Ma}' one thou- castle for the time being ; and the said portion' of sand eight hundred and eighty-two shall be ex- the endowment or income of the said Bishopric empted and released from all episcopal jurisdiction of Durham so to be transferred as last-mentioned'