§ SIR MARK STEWART () KirkcudbrightshireI beg to ask the Secretary of State for India whether, seeing that Clause 51, Chapter 155, of the Act of George III. has not been repealed, he can state by what authority is the Bishop of Calcutta justified in exorcising a jurisdiction over the chaplains of the Church of Scotland in India.
§ LORD G. HAMILTONI am at a loss to understand the question of my hon. friend. I am not aware that the Bishop of Calcutta exercises or claims to exercise any jurisdiction over chaplains of the Church of Scotland in India.
§ SIR M. STEWARTIs it not a fact that the Bishop of Calcutta prohibits 1430 chaplains of the Church of Scotland from exercising any ministerial functions in consecrated churches?
§ LORD G. HAMILTONIf a chaplain of the Church of Scotland wants to make use of a consecrated church belonging to the Church of England he has to obtain the Bishop's authority. I fail to see that that is exercising jurisdiction over him.