HISTORY OF THE [BOOK. n. 



rector, and other church officers; the rectors livings, 

 the presentation to which rests with the governor or 

 commander in chief, are severally as follows, viz. St. 

 Catherine, . 300 per annum; Kingston, St. Thomas 

 in the East, Clarendon, and Westmoreland, ..250 

 per annum; St. David, St. George, and Portland, 

 . 100 per annum ; all the rest ^".200 per annum. 

 These sums are paid in lieu of tythes by the church- 

 wardens of the several parishes respectively, from the 

 amount of taxes levied by the vestries on the inhabi- 

 tants. 



Each parish builds and repairs a parsonage house, 

 or allows the rector ^.50 per annum in lieu of one ; 

 besides which, many of the livings have glebe lands 

 of very considerable value annexed to them ; as the 

 parish of St. Andrew, which altogether is valued at 

 one thousand pounds sterling per annum. || The 

 bishop of London is said to claim this island as part 

 of his diocese, but his jurisdiction is renounced and 

 barred by the laws of the country; and the governor 

 or commander in chief, as supreme head of the pro- 

 vincial church, not only inducts into the several recto- 

 ries, on the requisite testimonials being produced that 

 the candidate has been admitted into priest's orders 

 according to the canons of the church of England, 



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but he is likewise vested with the power of suspend- 

 ing a clergyman of lewd and disorderly life a b officio, 



|| In the year 1788, the assembly passed a law to prohibit the burial of 

 the dead within the walls of the churches j and as by this regulation seve- 

 ral of the vectors were deprived of a perquisite, an augmentation of .50 

 per annum was made to most of the livings. 



