tors, who shall be appointed at each Session of the General Synod. 14. The General* Secretary, when required to devote his whole time to the work of the Board of Management, may be paid his travelling expenses and a salary to be fixed by the Board of Management. The present members of the Board of Management of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Board of the Ecclesiastical Province of Canada shall represent their respective Dioceses on the Board of Management provided for in this Canon, until such time as the Dioceses shall have elected new members. Until the Synods of the Province of Rupert's Land and the Dioceses of British Columbia or in the case of Dioceses having no Synods (including Algoma), the Bishops thereof, shall have appointed representatives, the present Delegates to this Synod shall be members of the Board of Management. In the case of the Diocese of Rupert's Land, the two of each Order first on the list shall act. *16. Before any Diocese, which may require assistance from the funds of the Society, has been constituted after the first day of January, 1919, evidence shall be submitted to the Executive Committee of the creation of an endowment, sufficient in the opinion of the Committee, to furnish an adequate Episcopal income, and an estimate of the amount which shall be required for its missionary work within the said Diocese, shall be submitted to the said Committee. 17. Unless the requirements of the preceding section have been complied with and arrangements made towards providing for such estimated needs, to the satisfaction of the Executive Committee, the Board of Management may refuse to make any grants to the New Diocese from the funds of the Society. CANON III. OF CERTAIN MARRIAGES FORBIDDEN TO BE CHURCH OF ENGLAND IN CANADA [Passed Session III (Journal pp. 57; 59), 1902] I. The Table of Degrees prohibiting certain marriages set *Amended, pages 51, 144, Journal Seventh Session, 1915. forth by authority in the year of our Lord 1563, and usually annexed to or included in the Book of Common Prayer, is hereby adopted by the General Synod. 2. No Clergyman within the jurisdiction of said Synod shall knowingly solemnise a marriage within the degrees prohibited by such table. 3. A copy of said Table of Prohibited Degrees shall be placed in the Vestry Room and near the entrance of every Churchwithin the said jurisdiction, in some place where it may convenient ly be read. CANON IV. REGISTRAR OF THE GENERAL SYNOD Passed a second [Passed Session III (Journal pp. 78, 91), 1902. time Session IV (Journal pp. 77, 82), 1905, amended Sixth Session Journal pp. 111 and 148, 1911] I. There shall be an officer of the General Synod to be designated: The Registrar of the General Synod. 2. The Registrar of the General Synod shall be elected by the Lower House and his election shall be concurred in by the Upper House. 3. The Journals, files, papers, reports and all other documents, shall be committed, when not otherwise expressly provided for, to the keeping of the Registrar. 4. It shall be the duty of the Registrar to preserve all such Journals, files, papers, reports, and other documents now in existence; to arrange, label, file, index, and otherwise put in order and provide for the safe keeping of the same and all such others as may hereafter come into his possession in some safe and accessible place of deposit and hold the same under such regulations and restrictions as the General Synod may from time to time provide. 5. It shall be the duty of the said Registrar to procure a proper book of record and to enter therein a record of the Consecrations of all the Bishops of the Church of England in Canada, designating accurately the hour and place of the same, and the names of the consecrating Bishops and of all others present and assisting, to have the same authenticated in the fullest manner possible, and to take care for the similar record and authentication of all future consecrations in the Church.. 6. The Registrar shall present a report at each session of the General Synod. 7. The expenses necessary for the purposes of this Canon shall be provided for by the vote of the General Synod and discharged by the Treasurer. *8. It shall be the duty of the Registrar without fee to furnish certified copies of each General Synod Journal and send the same to the proper officer of each Ecclesiastical Province of Canada for preservation among the records of such Province. *9. It shall be the duty of the Registrar to keep a proper book of record and to enter therein all canons enacted by General Synod; each Canon so entered shall be certified under the hand of the Primate and of the Registrar and shall be sealed with the seal of the General Synod. Such book of Canons shall be deemed to be the original record of the Canons enacted by the General Synod of Canada. CANON V. MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE [Passed Session IV (Journal pp. 25, 28), 1905] No Clergyman within the jurisdiction of the Church of England in Canada shall solemnize a marriage between persons either of whom shall have been divorced from one who is living at the time. CANON VI. TRANSFER OF CLERGY [Passed Session IV (Journal p. 54), 1905] It shall be the duty of each Bishop to keep a register of the *Enacted Sixth Session, 1911, see Journal pages 111 and 148. Clergy of his Diocese, whether ordained by himself or received from another Diocese. After each name there shall be recorded the date of his ordination as Deacon and Priest, and the name of the Bishop who ordained him; his standing in his University, if any; also the date of his entering the Diocese and of his various appointments. There shall also be a record of his transfer from other Dioceses, if there be any such. A Clergyman shall be regarded as subject to the Episcopal jurisdiction of the Bishop on whose register his name has been entered, until he has been removed from such register by transfer to another Diocese. When a Priest or Deacon in good standing is desirous of leaving a Diocese, it shall be the duty of the Bishop to give him, on his request, the usual "Letters Testimonial" or "Bene decesit,' but the Clergyman on receiving the same shall continue subject to the Episcopal jurisdiction of the Bishop till such "Letters Testimonial" shall have been presented according to their address. and accepted by the Bishop to whose Diocese the Clergyman wishes to be transferrred. Provided always that, if they be not presented within three months after their date, they shall be void. SCHEDULE A. "Letters Testimonial" may be in the following terms: I hereby certify that A.B., who has signified to me his desire to be transferred to the Ecclesiastical authority of. is a Priest of.... in regular standing, and has not, so far as I know and believe been justly liable to evil report for error in religion or viciousness of life for the three years last past. Witness our hand and seal this...... day of. . . Under the Canon this requires an answer. SCHEDULE B. Form of Acceptance of "Letters Testimonial." DIOCESE OF A. To the Ecclesiastical authority of the Diocese of B: 19.. The letters of transfer of the Reverend C.D. from the Diocese of A. have been presented to us and have been accepted; and the date thereof is... 19.. [Enacted Eighth Session, 1918, see pp. 232 and 244] GENERAL BOARD OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION I. For the purpose of unifying and developing the Educational activities of the Church, there shall be a General Board of Religious Education of the Church of England in Canada, which may be referred to, briefly, as the Board of Education. 2. The Board shall consist of the Primate ex officio, who shall be the President of the Board, the Bishops of each Diocese, two representatives of each order from the Lower House appointed by the Prolocutor at each Session of Synod and two clergymen and two laymen elected by each Diocesan Synod at each regular meeting thereof, together with any Executive officers who may be appointed by the Board. In any Diocese where there is no Diocesan Synod the Diocesan representatives shall be appointed by the Bishop. Board shall have power to increase the membership. The 3. It shall be the duty of the Board to study the Educational needs and problems of the Church in respect of Primary and Secondary Education and of all Sunday School work, and to recommend such measures as it may deem advisable to advance the cause of Religious Education, and to provide, as far as possible, that the education of our youth shall be maintained in harmony with the principles of the Christian religion and in close connection with the faith and worship of the Church. 4. The Board shall meet at least once a year at such time and place as may be determined by by-law or resolution of the |