appear to the electors to be of the greatest merit, and most fit to be admitted a Postmaster, Scholar, or Exhibitioner, as the case may be. Every election of Scholars of the foundation of Henry Jackson shall require confirmation by the Visitors of that foundation. The election of Postmasters, Scholars, and Exhibitioners shall take place on a stated day or stated days in each year to be appointed by the Warden and Fellows (subject to the provision for postponement hereinafter contained); and notice of such intended election shall be given by the Warden in such manner as he shall deem best adapted to ensure publicity thirty days at least before the day of election.

29. The Postmasterships of the foundations of John Wyllyot and John Chamber, the Scholarships of the foundation of Henry Jackson, and the Exhibitions of the foundation of Edmund Arnold, shall respectively be tenable for twenty Terms from election, (inclusive of the Term in which the election shall have taken place,) and no longer. The Warden and Fellows shall not be required to elect to more than three Postmasterships of the foundation of John Wyllyot, or more than one Scholarship of the foundation of Henry Jackson, in any one year. In case, in any election to a Postmastership of the foundation of John Chamber, no candidate shall offer himself duly qualified by nomination and otherwise according to the instrument of foundation, and whom the Warden and Fellows shall deem of sufficient merit to be admitted a Postmaster, the Postmastership shall be thrown open for that turn to all persons educated for not less than two years in the School of Eton College; and in default of a candidate so educated, whom the Warden and Fellows shall deem of sufficient merit for election, the election to the Postmastership shall be thrown open for that turn to general competition, and shall be held in the same manner

and after the same previous notice as the elections to Postmasterships of the foundation of John Wyllyot.

30. The Warden and Fellows may deprive any Postmaster, Scholar, or Exhibitioner of his Postmastership, Scholarship, or Exhibition for any misconduct which, in their judgment, shall merit deprivation.

31. The Warden and Fellows shall not, by reason of any clause or provision in the existing Statutes of the College, be prohibited or restrained from dividing amongst themselves or otherwise disposing of the clear surplus of the corporate revenues of the College, as they might have done if those Statutes had contained no such clause or provision.

32. The power of depriving Fellows for such causes as according to the Statutes of the College in force for the time being shall require deprivation, shall be vested in the Warden and Fellows, and shall be exercised by the vote of the major part of the Warden and all the Fellows, subject only to such appeal to the Visitor as is hereinafter provided: Provided that this clause shall not affect the Visitor's power (if any) of depriving by his own authority any member of the College.

33. Whenever there shall be no duly qualified candidate for a vacant Fellowship, for a Postmastership of the foundation of John Chamber which shall have been thrown open as aforesaid, for a Postmastership of the foundation of John Wyllyot, or for a Scholarship or Exhibition, whom the electors shall judge of sufficient merit for election, and whenever a Fellowship, Postmastership, Scholarship, or Exhibition, shall fall vacant and there shall not be time to give the notice hereinbefore directed before the day of election, the election shall be postponed to some other day, to be fixed by the Warden and Fellows for the pur

pose, not later than the next ensuing stated day of election in the case of a Fellowship of Fellows, and in the case of a Postmastership, Scholarship, or Exhibition, of Postmasters, Scholars, or Exhibitioners respectively; and every such postponed election shall be held and conducted in the same manner, and after the same previons notice, as if there had been no postponement.

34. The Warden and Fellows may from time to time regulate as they shall think fit the duties and emoluments of the officers of the College, and the mode of their appointment or election, and may institute such new offices as they shall deem expedient for the better management of the affairs of the College and the instruction and discipline of its members, and may assign to such new offices such stipends or emoluments as the Warden and Fellows shall think proper: Provided, that it shall be lawful for the Visitor, upon the petition of the Warden or any one or more of the Fellows, or of any officer of the College whose stipend or emoluments may have been diminished in exercise of the foregoing power, to disallow such regulation or assignment, if the Visitor shall think fit: Provided also, that the Wardenship shall not be deemed to be an office within the meaning of this clause.

35. The Warden and Fellows shall at the first stated general meeting, or as soon afterwards as conveniently may be, make regulations for the daily performance of Divine Service, according to the Liturgy of the United Church of England and Ireland, within the College, during full Term, and at such other times as they shall think proper, and for attendance on the same, and may vary such regulations from time to time; but such regulations shall be made and varied at stated general meetings only, and the Visitor shall have power to disallow and annul any such regulations, or any

variation thereof. In the meantime, and until such regulations can be made, the Warden and Fellows may at any ordinary meeting or meetings make provisional regulations for the same purposes. The provisions of the existing Statutes relating to Divine Service shall be henceforth void.

36. The oaths prescribed by the existing Statutes shall not hereafter be taken. But every person elected or admitted to any place or office, on election or admission to which an oath is now required, shall, at the time of his election or admission, take an oath or make a declaration, as the Warden and Fellows shall by resolution determine, to the effect that he will faithfully perform the duties of such place or office, and obey the Statutes and Bye-Laws of the College in force for the time being so far as they may concern him; and the electors to any place or office, before electing to which an oath is now required, shall, before electing take an oath or make a declaration, as the Warden and Fellows shall by resolution determine, to the effect that they will elect the person best qualified in their judgment for such place or office.

37. There shall be two stated general meetings at least of the Warden and Fellows in every year, on such days as the Warden and Fellows shall appoint. Any stated general meeting may be adjourned by resolution of the meeting to a day to be specified in the resolution. Except in cases in which the concurrence of any specified proportion of the Warden and Fellows, or the consent of the Warden, is hereby made requisite, every question arising at any College meeting shall be decided by a majority of the votes of those present. Whenever the votes shall be equal, the Warden shall have an additional casting vote. Any Statute, rule, or usage of the College which does or 2 U

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may prohibit or restrain, expressly or by implication, any person present at any College meeting from bringing forward thereat any question which he may think proper, or from having such question put to the vote, shall so far as regards such prohibition or restraint, be henceforth void: Provided, that the Warden and Fellows may make from time to time such rules for regulating the proceedings at College meetings, and for determining what business shall be transacted thereat, and for fixing (if they shail think fit) the notice to be given before bringing forward any question, as they shall deem expedient.

38. The power which is given by the existing Statutes to the Sub-Warden to act in place of the Warden, and the power of any officer of the College who may hereafter be authorized by any Statute or Byelaw to act in place of the Warden, shall be deemed to extend to all the acts which the Warden is hereby authorized or directed to do, except the giving consent to any commutation, regulation, or diminution of the Warden's emolu

ments.

39. If in any case it shall appear to the Visitor that by reason of any change in the value of money any specific sum fixed by this Ordinance, or which may be hereafter fixed in exercise of any power given by this Ordinance, has become insufficient or excessive, and that such insufficiency or excess is productive of injustice or hardship, or is injurious to the general interests of the College, it shall be lawful for the Visitor, from time to time, for the purpose of correcting or obviating such injustice, hardship, or injury, to direct that such annual sum shall be increased or diminished as he shall think fit, and the increased or diminished sum shall thenceforth be substituted for and stand in the place of the sum originally fixed as afore