The Ecclesiastical Commissioners (Exchange of Patronage) Act 1853
WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Session of Parliament held in the Sixth and Seventh Years of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, Chapter Seventy-seven, Provision is made for effecting, by the Authority therein named, that is to say, a Scheme prepared by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, and ratified by an Order of Her Majesty in Council, and duly gazetted, such Alterations in the Apportionment or Exchange of Ecclesiastical Patronage among the several Bishops as ...