Chapter II
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CHAPTER II
Beneficed Clergy
1. Admission by bishop on presentation of patron—Lapse to bishop, archbishop, or Crown. 2. Transfers of advowsons or rights of presentation—Next presentations—Power of patron to present himself—Restrictions under Benefices Act, 1898. 3. Qualification for admission—Grounds for refusal by bishop—Testimony as to fitness. 4. Procedure in case of refusal by bishop. 5. Publication of notice of intended admission. 6. Mode of admission—Institution—Licence—Collation—Declarations of assent and against simony—Oaths of allegiance and canonical obedience—Reading of Thirty-nine Articles. 7. Effect of admission—Induction. 8. Fees on admission. 9. Cure of Souls—Duties laid down in Ordination Service—Residence—Divine service—Marriages—Burials—Private ministrations. 10. Exclusive right of administration—Superior right of bishop—Modern comity as between town parishes. 11. Private ministrations—Service in unconsecrated buildings—Meetings for worship. 12. Private chapels—Chapels of institutions—Unconsecrated proprietary chapels. 13. Formation of new parishes—Approval or otherwise of incumbent. 14. Holding of two benefices. 15. Neglect of duty—Commission of inquiry—Procedure on adverse report of Commission. 16. Residence on benefice—Forfeitures for non-residence—Bishop's licence of non-residence—Grounds for licence. 17. Monition, sequestration, and avoidance of benefice for non-residence. 18. Performance of duties where incumbent is non-resident. 19. Restrictions on interfering with duties during period of non-residence. 20. Reckoning of time as to residence. 21. Vacation of benefice by death, resignation, admission to other preferment, or deprivation. 22. Resignation; unconditional except upon an exchange—Engagement to resign illegal except under Clergy Resignation Bonds Act, 1828—Corrupt resignations and exchanges—Pensions under Incumbents Resignation Acts. 23. Vacation of benefice on admission to other preferment. 24. Deprivation ipso facto—Declaration of vacancy by bishop on conviction of incumbent in certain cases—Sentences of deprivation under Acts of 1840 and 1892 pages 25-54