Board.

5. The Board shall have power to fix its own quorum, to frame regulations for the orderly and convenient discharge of the business and duties entrusted to it, to appoint such officers as may be deemed expedient, to regulate the powers, duties, and emoluments, if any, of such officers.

6. The Board shall have power to associate with itself experts in different departments of educational work, who shall form consultative councils for the purpose of studying and reporting upon educational problems affecting the interests of the Church.

7. The Board may appoint an Executive Committee to conduct the business of the Board in the intervals of its meetings

8. The Executive shall meet at such times and places as it may determine, and shall report to the Board at each meeting thereof.

9. It shall be the duty of the Board to submit a Report to each Diocesan Synod, to each Provincial Synod, and to the General Synod at their regular meetings.

10. It shall be the duty of the Board to determine from time to time what money will be required for the work of the Board and to arrange for the raising of the same, either by agreement with the several Dioceses in Canada or otherwise, as may be determined by the Board.

II.

The third Sunday in October shall be observed for and shall be devoted to the following purposes:

(i) Intercessions on behalf of the home, the Sunday School and other educational agencies of the Church.

(ii) Supplying information concerning the Church's Educational work.

(iii) Holding Special Services for children and adults. (iv) Providing offerings in behalf of the work of the Board.

I2.

The Monday of the second week of the General Synod shall be devoted to the consideration of the Report of the Board.

CANON VIII.

AN ECCLESIASTICAL PROVINCE FOR THE CIVIL
PROVINCE OF ONTARIO

(Enacted Session VI, Journal pp. 95 and 128)

The General Synod of the Church of England in Canada

enacts as follows:

I'. On the Provincial Synod of Canada consenting hereto, the Dioceses of Toronto, Huron, Ontario, Niagara, Algoma and Ottawa, at present comprised within the Ecclesiastical Province of Canada, shall constitute a new Ecclesiastical Province, to be known as "The Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario," and shall cease to be under the jurisdiction of the Provincial Synod of Canada.

2. There shall be a Provincial Synod of the said Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario, which shall be known as "The Provincial Synod of Ontario," and shall consist of all the Bishops of the Church of England in Canada having Sees within the said Ecclesiastical Province, or executing by due authority the Episcopate as Co-adjutor, Suffragan, Assistant, or Missionary Bishop therein, and of delegates chosen from the clergy and laity thereof.

3. If at the date of the Provincial Synod of Canada consenting hereto the Metropolitan of Canada be the Archbishop of one of the Sees comprised in the Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario, he shall thereupon become Metropolitan of the Province of Ontario, but he shall also continue to exercise jurisdiction as Metropolitan of Canada until his successor in such Metropolitancy be elected in accordance with the Canons of the Provincial Synod of Canada.

4. If at the said date the Metropolitan of Canada be not the Archbishop of one of the Sees mentioned in clause 3, the Bishops of the said Province of Ontario at the first session of the Provincial Synod thereof, (or at such other time and place as they shall at the First Session determine) shall elect one of their number to be the Metropolitan of the Province of Ontario, and until such election has taken place the Metropolitan of Canada shall continue to exercise jurisdiction in the Province of Ontario.

5. As soon as the said resolution of consent shall have been passed by the said Provincial Synod of Canada the Bishops and clerical and lay delegates present from the Dioceses comprising the Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario shall withdraw from the session of the said Provincial Synod, and as soon thereafter as conveniently possible shall assemble in session at the Provincial Synod of Ontario, under the presidency of the Metropolitan of Ontario, or there being no Metropolitan of Ontario present, under the presidency of the senior Bishop of Ontario present.

6. After consent as aforesaid the Bishops and clerical and lay delegates from the remaining Dioceses of the Ecclesiastical Province of Canada shall constitute the Provincial Synod of Can

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ada and shall continue to exercise all the powers thereof over all the said remaining Dioceses.

7. The constitution, order of proceedings and rules of order of the Provincial Synod of Canada mutatis mutandis shall be the constitution, order of proceedings and rules of order of the Provincial Synod of Ontario until the last mentioned Synod shall have adopted a new constitution, order of proceedings and rules of order.

8.

All Canons of the Provincial Synod of Canada, so far as the same shall be applicable to the Province of Ontario, shall be deemed to be Canons of the Provincial Synod of Ontario until or unless the Synod shall otherwise enact.

9. When duly constituted the Provincial Synod of Ontario may enter into such agreements, and may make such arrangements as may be necessary with the Provincial Synod of the Province of Rupert's Land in respect of any territory situated in the civil Province of Ontario as may be comprised in any of the Dioceses of the said Province of Rupert's Land, (subject however to the concurrence of the Dioceses affected), and if the Province of Rupert's Land and the Dioceses affected as aforesaid consent, any territory as aforesaid may be transferred to and shall upon acceptance thereof by the Provincial Synod of Ontario become and constitute part of the Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario and be subject to the Provincial Synod thereof.

CANON IX.

MISSIONARY DIOCESES AND BISHOPS

(Enacted Session VI., Journal pp. 48, 50 and 117)

The General Synod of the Church of England in Canada enacts as follows:

Whereas the Missionary Society of the Church of England in Canada in the furtherance of the general missionary work of the Church entrusted to their care under Canon No. 2 of this Synod, may find it necessary to assume the charge of defined districts in foreign lands and to provide Episcopal supervision for such districts, and it is expedient to make provision in regard to the same. Be it therefore enacted:

I. The Board of Missions of the Church of England in Can

ada may by a resolution passed at any Triennial Meeting of the Board, or at any Special Meeting thereof called by the Primate at the request of the House of Bishops, with such notice as is required in the case of a Meeting of the General Synod, and specifying the purpose for which such meeting is called, establish a Missionary Diocese or Dioceses in Territories beyond the Dominion of Canada; provided that if the territory of any proposed Diocese be part of the territory under the jurisdiction or in charge of a Bishop or Bishops of the Church of England in Canada or of any Church in Communion therewith, the consent and approval of such Bishop or Bishops be first obtained, and in no case shall there be two Bishops of Churches in communion with each other exercising jurisdiction in the same territory.

2. No such resolution for the establishment of a Missionary Diocese shall be carried except by a two-thirds majority of those present at the meeting unless the same shall have been submitted to the Board of Missions and recommended by the Board of Management, in which event the resolution may be carried by a majority of those present.

3. On the adoption of a resolution for the establishment of a Missionary Diocese it shall be the duty of the Board of Management to take all such steps as shall be necessary to delimit the boundaries of the said Missionary Diocese, to provide the funds for establishing and maintaining the said Diocese and the Bishop thereof, and to make all such agreements and arrangements as shall or may be necessary with the Civil Government of the said territory and with the representatives of other Churches in communion with the Church of England in Canada carrying on missionary work in the said territory.

4. The said Board of Management, with a view to giving effect to the 24th resolution of the Lambeth Conference in 1897, as re-affirmed by the Lambeth Conference of 1908, shall give due notice of the resolution of the Society, and of the intention to proceed with the choice and consecration of a Bishop in accordance therewith, to the representative authorities of other independent Churches of the Anglican communion carrying on Missionary work in territories adjoining the proposed new Missionary Diocese, and shall make any adjustments and arrangements which may be necessary to ensure the maintenance of amicable relations with them.

5. On the Board of Management certifying to the House of Bishops that all matters referred to in the preceding section hereof have been duly complied with, and on the House of Bishops being

satisfied that due provision has been made for the income of the Bishop to be chosen in accordance with the said resolution, the Primate, or if there be no Primate, the Senior Archbishop or Bishop, shall summon a meeting of the Board of Management for the purpose of choosing a Bishop of the said Missionary Diocese, but such choice may be made at any regular meeting of the Board of Management, provided notice of the intention to make such choice shall have been given in the notice summoning the said. meeting.

6.

At such meeting there being not less than fifty present, the Board of Management shall by a vote of a majority of the members present and voting (which vote shall, if required by four persons in writing, be taken by ballot) nominate a Bishop or other clergyman in priest's orders to the House of Bishops for choice as Bishop of the said Missionary Diocese, and if such nomination be confirmed by the House of Bishops, and the person so nominated accepts, he shall be declared to be the chosen Bishop of such Missionary Diocese. If not so confirmed or if the person so chosen shall not accept, further names shall be submitted and so on until a choice shall be confirmed by the House of Bishops and the person so chosen shall accept.

7. On any voidance of a Missionary See, a successor to the Diocesan shall be chosen in like manner.

8. A certificate of the choice of the Bishop and of his acceptance of such choice shall be forthwith furnished by the Chairman and General *Secretary of the Board of Management to the Primate, or if there be a vacancy in that office, to the Senior Archbishop or Bishop.

9.

On receipt of the said certificate the Primate shall, within fourteen days thereafter, send formal notice of such election to all the Bishops within the Dominion of Canada.

10.

Should any of the said Bishops desire to object to the consecration of the person so elected, if consecration be necessary, on the ground of canonical disability, as hereinafter defined, he shall make objection in writing, delivered to the Primate within thirty days from the date of such notification to him of such election, setting forth the special grounds of his objection.

II. On the receipt of any such objection in writing by the Primate, or in case the Primate himself objects to such consecration, he shall refer the said objection to the Supreme Court of Appeal for the Church of England in Canada, and the decision of the said Court, with reasons for said decision, shall be communicated in writing, without delay, to the chosen