straight direction along the eastern fence of such field, and part of the boundary between the said parishes of Saint Catherine and Saint Mary de Lode, to the north-western corner of a certain field called 'Pedmarsh Ground,' belonging to John Heath, and thence in the same direction along the western fence of such field, and part of the eastern boundary of the said parish of Saint Catherine, and westward along part of the southern boundary of such parish, to a point (marked as aforesaid) opposite to the north-eastern corner of Wheeler's Nursery Ground, and thence southward along the eastern fence thereof, and part of the eastern boundary of the said parish of Saint Mary de Lode, as far as the boundary of the said parish of Saint John the Baptist, and thence continuing southward and nearly in a straight direction along a certain fence to the house at the north-eastern corner of Sherborne Street, and thence towards the south-east along the north-eastern wall of such house, and the north-eastern wall or fence of the garden belonging thereto, as far as the wall or fence between the gardens and premises belonging to the houses in Sherborne Street aforesaid, and the gardens and premises belonging to the houses in Oxford Street and Alvin Street, and thence towards the southwest along such last-mentioned wall or fence, and the fence and wall between the gardens and premises numbered 15 and 16 in Alvin Street aforesaid, as far as the middle of such street, and thence towards the north-west along the middle of the same street as far as the middle of Worcester Street, and thence northward along the middle of such

street

street and the turnpike road from Gloucester to Worcester aforesaid to the point where the said imaginary line commenced."

And whereas the draft of the said scheme has been transmitted to the incumbents and to the patrons of the churches of the parishes out of which it is intended that the district therein recommended to be constituted shall be taken, pursuant to the provisions of the said Act; and whereas one calendar month has expired since such draft was so transmitted, and no objections have been made. thereto :

And whereas the said scheme has been approved by Her Majesty in Council; now, therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her said Council, is pleased hereby to ratify the said scheme, and to order and direct that the same, and every part thereof, shall be effectual in law immediately from and after the time when this Order shall have been duly published in the London Gazette, pursuant to the said Act; and Her Majesty, by and with the like advice, is pleased hereby to direct that this Order be forthwith registered by the registrars of the two several registries of the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, at Bristol and Gloucester. WM. L. BATHURST.

No. 250.

For constituting a separate District for Spiritual Purposes out of the Parish of Stockport, in the County and Diocese of Chester.

Gazetted 13th February 1846.

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 30th day of January 1846,

PRESENT,

The Queen's most Excellent Majesty in Council. WHEREAS the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England have, in pursuance of an Act passed in the session of Parliament held in the sixth and seventh years of Her Majesty's reign, intituled "An Act to make "better provision for the spiritual care of populous "parishes," duly prepared and laid before Her Majesty in Council a scheme, bearing date the twentysecond day of December in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, in the words following; that is

to say:

"We, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, in pursuance of an Act passed in the session of Parliament held in the sixth and seventh years of Your Majesty's reign, intituled An Act to make better provision for the spiritual care of populous parishes,' have prepared, and now humbly lay before Your Majesty in Council, the following scheme for constituting a

separate

separate district for spiritual purposes out of the parish of Stockport, in the county and diocese of Chester:

"Whereas it is by the said Act enacted, that if at any time it shall be made to appear to us that it would promote the interests of religion that any part or parts of any parish or parishes, chapelry or chapelries, district or districts, of great extent and containing a large population, and wherein or in parts whereof the provision for public worship and for pastoral superintendence is insufficient for the spiritual wants of the inhabitants thereof, or any extra-parochial place or places, or any part or parts thereof, should be constituted a separate district for spiritual purposes, it shall be lawful, by the authority in the same Act provided, (that is to say, by a scheme prepared by us, and an Order issued by Your Majesty in Council ratifying such scheme,) with the consent of the bishop of the diocese, under his hand and seal, to set out by metes and bounds, and constitute a separate district accordingly, such district not then containing within its limits any consecrated church or chapel in use for the purposes of divine worship, and to fix and declare the name of such district; and it is by the same Act provided, that the draft of any scheme for constituting any such district shall be delivered or transmitted to the incumbent and to the patron or patrons of the church or chapel of any parish, chapelry, or district out of which it is recommended that any such district, or any part thereof, should be taken, in order that such incumbent, patron or patrons, may have an opportunity of offering or making to us, or to such bishop, any observations or objections upon or to the constituting of such district; and that such scheme

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shall not be laid before Your Majesty in Council until after the expiration of one calendar month next after such copy shall have been so delivered or transmitted, unless such incumbent and patron or patrons shall in the meantime consent to the same; and it is by the same Act also provided, that in every such scheme for constituting any such district we shall recommend to Your Majesty in Council that the minister of such district, when duly licensed according to the same Act, shall be permanently endowed, under the provisions of the same Act, to an amount of not less than the annual value of one hundred pounds; and also, if such endowment be of less than the annual value of one hundred and fifty pounds, that the same shall be increased to such last-mentioned amount at the least, so soon as such district shall have become a new parish as therein-after provided :

"And whereas the said parish of Stockport is of great extent, and contains a large population, and the provision for public worship and for pastoral superintendence therein is insufficient for the spiritual wants of the inhabitants thereof; and it has been made to appear to us that it would promote the interests of religion that the particular part of such parish hereinafter mentioned and described, such part not at present containing within its limits any consecrated church or chapel in use for the purposes of divine worship, should be constituted a separate district in manner herein-after set forth :

"Now, therefore, we humbly recommend and propose, with the consent of the Right Reverend John Bird Bishop of Chester, in testimony whereof he has signed and sealed this scheme, that all that part of the said

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