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       granted or settled within our said Province to the end you P. R. O.

       may receive our especiall directions therein.

         You shall likewise take especiall care with the advice and

       consent of our said Councill to regulate all Salaries and Fees

       belonging to Places or paid upon Emergencies that they be

       within the bounds of moderation and that no action be made

       upon any occasion whatsoever.

         And that God Almighty may be the more inclined to bestow

       his Blessing upon us and you in the Welfare and Improvement

       of that our Province you shall take especiall care that he be

       devoutly and duly served within your Government the Book

       of Common Prayer as it is now established read Sunday and

       Holy day and the Blessed Sacrament administered according

       to the Rights of the Church of England you shall take care

       that the Churches already built there shall be well and orderly

       kept and more built as the Colony shall by Gods Blessing be

       improved and that besides a competent maintenance to be

       assigned to the Minister of each Church a Convent house be

       built at the common charge for each Minister you are not to

       preferr any Minister to any Ecciesiasticall Benefice in that our

       Province without a Certificate from the Right Reverend the

       Bishop of London of his being conformable to the doctrine

       and Dicipline of the Church of England and of a good life

       and conversation. And if any person already preferred shall

       appear to you to give Scandall either by his doctrine or man

       ner you are to use the best means for the Removal of him

       and to supply the Vacancy in such manner as we have directed

       and you are to give order forthwith if the same be not already

       done that every Orthodox Minister within your Government

       be one of the Vestry in his respective Parish and that no

       Vestry be held without him except in case of sickness or that

       after notice of a Vestry summoned he absent himself and you

       are to enquire whether there be any Minister within your

       Government who preaches and administers the Sacrament in

       any Orthodox Church or Chappell without being in due

       orders whereof you are to give an account to the said Bishop

       of London.

         And to the end the Ecclesiasticall Jurisdiction of the said

       Bishop of London may take place in our Province as far as

       conveniently may be We do think fit that you give all coun

       tenance and encouragement in the exercise of the same

       excepting only the collating to Benefices Granting Lycences

       for Marriage and probate of Wills which we have reserved to

       you our Governor or the Commander in Chief for the time

       being.

         You are to take care that a Table of Marriages established

       by the Church of England be hung up in every Orthodox