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Title: The church in Madras (Volume 2): being the history of the ecclesiastical and missionary action of the East India Company in the Presidency of Madras in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Penny, Frank
Subjects: East India Company Missions
Publisher: London : Smith, Elder
Contributing Library: Emory University, Pitts Theology Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Emory University, Pitts Theology Library

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of their wives and children, who need not beseparated from them either for climatic or education or anyother reason. If the men they wanted were to be attractedfrom the pleasant home parishes, the Company was bound tooffer some compensation for leaving such pleasant prospectsbehind. They had already increased the pay when serving;they now increased the retiring allowance from the pay of aMajor to that of a Lieutenant-Colonel. After the death of Bishop Heber in 1826 ArchdeaconVaughan proposed to complete the visitation which the Bishophad intended to make to Bangalore and the intermediatestations in North Arcot. A large sum of money which had beenallotted for the Bishops expenses remained unexpended.From this sum the Government paid the Archdeacons expenses;and reported the fact to the Directors.1 The Directors replied 2 by referring the Governor in Councilto their former despatch of 1818, and expressing their dis- 1 Letter, July 25, 1826, 16, Eccl. - Despatch, Sept. 5, 1827, 12, Eocl.
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THE VEN. EDWARD VAUGHAN, ARCHDEACON OF MADRAS, 1819-1828. THE ARCHDEACONRY OF MADRAS 145 pleasure that their ruling had been set aside. The Council wereconvinced of the advantage of inspection and the justice ofcharging the Government with the cost of it; but they wereobliged to acquiesce in the orders of the Directors, though theydid so under protest. They put their case in this way :1 The Rt. Hon. the Governor in Council regrets that theproceedings of Government on the occasion in question shouldnot have been approved of by the Hon. Court. Chaplains in theservice of the Company are allowed remuneration when theyare required to travel from one station to another in dischargeof the different duties required of them ; and the Archdeaconstour of visitation, being equally one of a public nature, theGovernment were not aware that the restrictions (as to fees,perquisites, &c) contained in 53 Geo. Ill, cap. 155, should beconstructed to preclude the grant of travelling expenses tohim als

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