the United Kingdom; any matter or thing whatsoever to the contrary notwithstanding: provided nevertheless, that no person whose certificate or licence shall have been so vacated by order of any of the Governments of the said Company as aforesaid, shall be subject or liable to any prosecution for residing or being found in the East Indies without licence or authority for that purpose, until two months after notice of such order shall have been given to such person, by delivery to such person of a copy thereof, or by leaving the same at the last place of abode of such person, or by publication of such order in the Gazette of the Presidency where such order shall be made.

And be it further enacted, that it shall not be lawful for any of the Governments of the said Company at their several Presidencies to license or otherwise authorize the residence at any place or places within the limits of the said Company's Governments, of any subject of his Majesty, who shall go thereto after the tenth day of April one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, unless such person shall have been previously furnished with a licence or certificate from the Court of Directors of the said Company, or have otherwise been authorized by law to reside within the said limits: provided nevertheless, that any Governor General or Governor of any of the said Presidencies, for extraordinary reasons to be entered upon the minutes of Council, may authorize by special licence the residence of any subject of his Majesty in any place or places under the Government of such Presidency, until the pleasure of the said Court of Directors shall be known in that behalf; and that such special licence shall be deemed and taken to be of the same force and effect as a licence of and from the said Court of Directors, until notice of the pleasure of the said Court to the contrary shall have been given to such person, by delivery thereof to such person, or by leaving the same at his last place of abode, or by publication thereof in the Gazette of the Presidency by which such special licence shall have been granted: provided that a copy of such licence, and of the reasons for granting the same, accompanied with an application for a licence from the said Court of Directors, shall be transmitted to the said Court of Directors forthwith after the granting thereof.

And be it further enacted, that it shall and may be lawful for the said Board of Commissioners for the affairs of India, by licence in writing for that purpose, upon such

terms and conditions as they may think fit, to authorize any person or persons to proceed to and reside at any place or places situate more to the northward than eleven degrees of south latitude, and between the sixty-fourth and one hundred and fiftieth degrees of east longitude from London, and not being upon the continent of Asia, between the river Indus and the town of Malacca inclusive; nor in any Island under the Government of the said Company lying to the northward of the equator; nor at the said Company's factory at Bencoolen, nor its dependencies; nor within the dominions of the Emperor of China; any act, matter or thing whatsoever to the contrary notwithstanding.

And be it further enacted, that the said Board of Commissioners for the affairs of India, by force and virtue of this Act, shall have and be invested with full power and authority to superintend, direct, and controul all orders and instructions whatsoever, which in any wise relate to or concern any rules, regulations, or establishments whatsoever of the several colleges established by the said Company at Calcutta or Fort Saint George, or of any seminaries which may he established under the authority of any of the Governments of the said Company, in the same manner, to all intents and purposes, and under and subject to all such and the like regulations and provisions, as if such orders and instructions immediately related to and concerned the Government and revenues of the said territorial acquisitions in the East Indies.

And be it further enacted, that it shall be lawful for the Governor General in Council to direct, that out of any surplus which may remain of the rents, revenues and profits, arising from the said territorial acquisitions, after defraying the expences of the military, civil, and commercial estab lishments, and paying the interest of the debt, in manner hereinafter provided, a sum of not less than one lack of rupees in each year shall be set apart and applied to the revival and improvement of literature and the encouragement of the learned natives of India, and for the introduc tion and promotion of a knowledge of the sciences among the Inhabitants of the British territories in India; and that any Schools, Public Lectures or other Institutions, for the purposes aforesaid, which shall be founded at the Presidencies of Fort William, Fort St. George, or Bombay, or in any other parts of the British territories in India, in

virtue of this Act, shall be governed by such regulations as may from time to time be made by the said Governor General in Council; subject nevertheless to such powers as are herein vested in the said Board of Commissioners for the affairs of India, respecting Colleges and Seminaries: provided always, that all appointments to offices in such Schools, Lectureships, and other Institutions, shall be made by or under the authority of the Governments within which the same shall be situated.

And whereas no sufficient provision hath hitherto been made for the maintenance and support of a Church Establishment in the British territories in the East Indies and other parts within the limits of the said Company's Charter, be it therefore enacted, that in case it shall please his Majesty, by his Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the said United Kingdom, to erect, found, and constitute, one Bishoprick for the whole of the said British Territories in the East Indies, and parts aforesaid; one Archdeaconry for the Presidency of Fort William in Bengal; one Archdeaconry for the Presidency of Fort Saint George, on the coast of Coromandel; and one Archdeaconry for the Presidency and Island of Bombay, on the Coast of Malabar; and from time to time to nominate and appoint a Bishop and Archdeacons to such Bishoprick and Archdeaconries respectively; the Court of Directors of the said Company, during such time as the said territorial acquisitions shall remain in the possession of the said Company, shall, and they are hereby required to direct and cause to be paid, certain established salaries to such Bishop and Archdeacons respectively; (that is to say) from and out of the revenues of the said Presidency of Fort William in Bengal to the said Bishop, five thousand pounds by the year, at an exchange of two shillings for the Bengal current rupee; and to the said Archdeacon of the said Presidency of Fort William, two thousand pounds by the year, at the like exchange; and from and out of the revenues of the Presidency of Fort Saint George, on the Coast of Coromandel, to the Archdeacon of the said Presidency of Fort Saint George, two thousand pounds by the year, at an exchange of eight shillings for the pagoda at Madras; and from and out of the revenues of the Presidency and Island of Bombay, on the Coast of Malabar, to the Archdeacon of the said Presidency and Island of Bombay, two thousand pounds by the year, at an exchange of two shillings and three-pence for the Bombay rupee.

And be it further enacted, that the said salaries shall take place and commence from and after the time at which such persons as shall be appointed to the said offices respectively, shall take upon them the execution of their re spective offices; and that all such salaries shall be in lieu of all fees of office, perquisites, emoluments, and advantages whatsoever; and that no fees of office, perquisites, emoluments, or advantages whatsoever, shall be accepted, received, or taken, in any manner or on any account or pretence whatsoever, other than the salaries aforesaid; and that such Bishop and Archdeacons respectively shall be entitled to such salaries so long as they shall respectively exercise the functions of their several offices in the East Indies, or parts aforesaid, and no longer.

Provided always, and be it further enacted, that such Bishop shall not have or use any jurisdiction, or exercise any episcopal functions whatsoever, either in the East Indies or elsewhere, but only such jurisdiction and functions as shall or may from time to time be limited to him by his Majesty by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom.

And be it further enacted, that it shall and may be lawful for his Majesty, from time to time, if he shall think fit, by his Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the said United Kingdom, to grant to such Bishop so to be nominated and appointed as aforesaid, such ecclesiastical jurisdiction, and the exercise of such episcopal functions, within the East Indies and parts aforesaid, as his Majesty shall think necessary for the administering holy ceremonies, and for the superintendence and good government of the Ministers of the Church Establishment within the East Indies and parts aforesaid; any law, charter, or other matter or thing to the contrary notwithstanding.

And be it further enacted, that when and as often as it shall please his Majesty to issue any Letters Patent respecting any such Bishoprick or Archdeaconry as aforesaid, or for the nomination or appointment of any person thereto, the warrant for the bill in every such case shall be countersigned by the President of the Board of Commissioners for the affairs of India.

APPENDIX II.

(See Puge 291.)

Instructions from the Committee to the Rev. THOMAS NORTON and the Rev. WILLIAM GREENWOOD, destined as Missionaries to Ceylon; and to the Rev. JOHN CHRISTIAN SCHNARRE and the Rev. CHARLES THEOPHILUS EWALD RHENIUS, Missionaries to Tranquebar: Delivered by the Secretary, at a Special General Meeting, held at the Freemasons' Tavern, January 7th, 1814.

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD GAMBIER, VICE-PATRON AND PRESIDENT, IN THE CHAIR.

Dearly Beloved in the Lord

THE Committee have called the Society together on occasion of your designation to your future labours, because they wished a salutary and lasting impression to be made on your own minds by the solemnities of this day, and they are persuaded that many now present will be the more deeply convinced thereby of the necessity and duty of befriending you by their fervent and unwearied prayers.

It is a serious act to which you are now called-to renew, in the presence of this great Assembly, those assurances of fidelity and zeal in the cause of our Heavenly Master, which you have already given in private; and to receive at our hands those Instructions, by which we wish you to regulate your future lives.

And we ourselves cannot but feel peculiar interest in the present occasion. You are the first Missionaries whom the Society has yet been enabled to send to India. To that vast assemblage of fellow-men, and to the many millions of our fellow-subjects among them, who are all living under a degrading and cruel superstition, we have long turned a pitying and anxious eye. Their immense multitudesthe community which a large portion of them enjoy with ourselves in civil and political rights-the darkness of that shadow of death which surrounds them-and the eagerness