The Cathedrals Act 1864
'WHEREAS it is expedient to make Arrangements for securing fixed Incomes to the Members of certain minor Corporations in certain of the Cathedral Churches in England in lieu of their present fluctuating Incomes:' Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows: