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114 HISTORY OF BISHOP AUCKLAND. ones, and make good the floor where necessary, to renew the Gas fittings, to repair the Gallery, and generally to repair the chapel, all conformably to the said plans and specifications ; and when the said restoration and re-seating of the said chapel is completed, to re-allot the pews or stalls and seats coloured yellow on the plan annexed to the plans hereinbefore referred to, to the parties entitled thereto, and whose names are written on the said plan, the churchwardens for the time being retaining the pews or staUs and seats coloured Lake on the said plan for allotment to, or for the use of, the Parishioners and Inhabitants of the said parish for the time being, and to keep the remainder of the said pews or stalls and seats coloured Blue on the said plan, consisting of four hundred and fifty-nine sittings, free : And also to sell such of the materials of the said chapel as cannot be used in making the proposed alterations, the proceeds arising from such sale to be appropriated towards the expenses attendant upon such alterations : And also to remove so much of the soil from the inside and outside of the said chapel as may be needful in carrying the said plans into effect : And further, to authorize and empower the said George Howard Wilkinson, Richard Bowser, John Proud, and Thomas Marley, or the major part of them for the time being, as aforesaid, to do all other Acts and to provide all things that shall be requisite and necessary for eflFectually making and canying out the alterations above mentioned, and for fitting up and completing the said chapel and making the same in every respect suitable, convenient, and proper for the celebration and performance of Divine Service therein : And we do peremptorily enjoin you, the said G^eorge Howard Wilkinson, Richard Bowser, John Proud, and Thomas Marley (and the Incumbent and churchwardens of the said parish for the time being), as aforesaid, to certify and report to our said Vicar-General and Official Principal, his Surrogate, or some other competent Judge in that behalf, all and every the proceedings to be had and done in the said business, by virtue of this our License or Faculty, when the same shall have been fully executed, or whenever you shall be thereunto lawfully called, that he or they may proceed forthwith therein, and may declare, pronounce, and decree what to him or them shall seem expedient, just, or lawful in that behalf : In Testimony whereof We have caused the seal of our said Consistory Court of Durham to be affixed to these presents, this ninth day of November, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven. Extracted by Joseph Davison, Thos. Jones, Proctor. Depy. Regr. The living of St. Ann's is a perpetual curacy (not in charge), in the patronage of the Bishop of Durham, and incumbency of the Rev. H. A. Mitton, vicar of St. Andrew s. The registers are included with those of St. Andrew's Auckland. Digitized by Google