Bathurst and Grafton and Armidale Bishoprics Act of 1877 41 Vic (NSW)

1877. AV? VIC.

Bathurst and Grafton and Armidale Bishoprics.

An Act to vest certain Lands situate within the Dioceses of Bathurst and of Grafton and Armidale respectively which are now vested in the Bishops of Sydney and Newcastle in and to extend the Act in which the Bishop of Australia is mentioned to the Bishops of Bathurst and of Grafton and Armidale. [8rd July, 1877.]

IEREAS His late Majesty King William the Fourth did by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of

Great Britain and Ircland bearing date at Westminster the eighteenth day of January one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six in the tenth year of his reign erect found make ordain and constitute all the territories and islands comprised within or dependent upon the Colonies of New South Wales Van Diemen's Land and Western Australia into a Bishop's sce or diocese and did declare and ordain that the same should be styled the Bishopric of Australia and did by the said Letters Patent ordain make and constitute the Right Reverend William Grant Broughton Doctor in Divinity to be the first Bishop and ordinary pastor of the said see of Australia and that the said Bishop and his successors should be for ever thereafter called by the name of the * Bishop of Australia'? And whereas by virtue of certain powers of revocation contained in the said Letters Patent Ter Majesty Queen Victoria by Letters Patent bearing date the eighteenth day of August one thousand eight hundred and forty-two and by certain other Letters Patent bearing date the twenty-fifth day of June onc thousand eight hundred and forty-seven in which it was recited that it had been found expedicnt that the extent of the said Diocese of Australia should be reduced did divide the said diocese into several distinct dioceses therein styled and named And whereas by the said Letters Patent Her Majesty Queen Victoria did erect found ordain and constitute all those parts or portions of the Colony of New South Wales known or called by the names of the counties of Wellington Roxburgh Cook Cumber- land Camden Westmoreland Georgiana Bathurst King Murray Argyle and Auckland with the territory to the west bounded by the parallel of south latitude thirty-two degrees thirty minutes and the one hundred and forty-first degree of east longitude to be a Bishop's see and diocese and to be called from thenceforth the Bishopric of Sydney saving nevertheless to Her Majesty Her Heirs and Successors the power of altering from time to time with the consent of the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury for the time being if the said see be vacant or otherwise of the said Archbishop and the Bishop of the said sce for the time being the limits of the said diocese or of the jurisdiction of the Bishop thereof and subject to a like reservation of the power of altering the limits did erect found ordain and constitute all these parts or portions of the said Colony known or called by the names of the counties of Northumberland Hunter Durham Brisbane Phillip Bligh Gloucester Macquarie and Stanley with the territory to the north and west bounded by the twenty-first parallel of south latitude and the one hundred and forty-first degree of cast longtitude to be a Bishop's see and diocese and to be called from thenceforth the Bishopric of Newcastle And whereas Her said Majesty because of the great extent of the see of Sydney did by certain other Letters Patent bearing date the fourteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three further