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Great Seal, to be issued, by which the following Commissioners were named and appointed, for the purposes of the Act,-viz.

The Right Hon. CHARLES MANNERS SUTTON, Speaker of The House of Com

mons.

The Right Rev. JOHN Bishop of ST. ASAPH. The Right Hon. Sir WILLIAM SCOTT, Knt., now Lord STOWELL.

The Right Hon. CHARLES YORKE.

The Right Hon. Sir WILLIAM GRANT, Knt.

The Right Rev. EDWARD Bishop of OxFORD, dead.

The Right Hon. Sir JOHN NICHOLL, Knt. The Right Hon. Sir VICARY GIBBS, Knt., dead.

FRANCIS BURTON, Esq., resigned.
Hugh LeyCESTER, Esq., resigned.
JOHN WILLING WARREN, Esq.
HENRY HUGH HOLBECH, Esq.
WILLIAM GRANT, Esq.
WILLIAM ROBERTS, Esq.
WILKINSON MATHEWS, Esq.

ROBERT MARSHAM, Esq., LL. D., now WARDEN of MERTON COLLEGE, Ox

FORD.

JAMES MCMAHON, Esq.

The Hon. DANIEL FINCH.

SHERRARD BEAUMONT BURNABY, LL. D. GEORGE DANIELL, Esq.

On the demise of HIS MAJESTY GEORGE the Third, a new COMMISSION was directed by His present MOST EXCELLent MaJESTY to be issued, dated the 5th of August, 1820, in which all the above-named Commissioners are continued, with the exception of Sir VICARY GIBBS who died in the interval, and was succeeded by The Right Hon. Sir HENRY RUSSELL, Bart.

SPECIAL VISITORS.

THE attention of THE COMMISSIONERS was first directed to the consideration of so much of the 12th section of the Act of Parliament as relates to SPECIAL VISITORS, GOVERNORS, and OVERSEERS, in order to ascertain how far their powers of Inquiry were limited by the same. Adopting the rule of construction which has been applied to a similar provision, in the Statute of Charitable Uses of the 43° of ELIZABETH chap. 4., they were of opinion that this clause does not extend to such Special Visitors, Governors and Overseers, as have themselves the administration of any Funds belonging to Charitable Institutions for the purposes of Education, or for any other Charitable

use.

Upon this construction The Commissioners have acted in the course of their proceedings,—and where they have met

with Charitable Foundations provided with Special Visitors or Governors so circumstanced, they have thought it proper to pursue their Inquiries concerning them.1

The Cases which relate to Special Visitations are, however, numerous, and at present amount to EIGHTY THREE.

Introduct. Report, vol. i. p. 3.

EXCEPTIONS.

1

By the 12th. section of the Act, the two Universities of OXFORD and CAMBRIDGE, and the Colleges of ETON, WESTMINSTER, and WINCHESTER, and the great Schools of THE CHARTER-HOUSE, HARROW, and RUGBY, are excepted from Inquiry,-neither is investigation to be made into any funds applicable to the purposes of Education for the benefit of any persons of the Jewish persuasion, or the people called Quakers, or persons of the Roman Catholic persuasion, and which shall be under the superintendence and control of persons of such persuasions respectively.

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