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II 12 add:— The mastership of the Temples is a Royal Peculiar.The Master is an Ecclesiastic, is appointed and dis-posed of by the Crown in virtue of the reservationcontained in the Deed of Grant of James I. His stipend is paid by the Inner and MiddleTemples jointly, and the house provided.in 1 8 after rates insert following : — and although they form no part of a union they,under the Poor Law Amendment Act, make a con-tribution to the Guardians of the City of LondonUnion, such contribution being based upon the annualrateable value of the Inn. This sum amounts to some;£i,ooo per annum, while the other payments to theCity and the County Council amount to some .£5,700per annum (strike out remainder of paragraph}.Ill 26 add following: — The latest revision of the Regulations constitutingthe Council is dated February, 1910. The four Inns contribute to the expenses as belowstated, and receive and consider with respect anyrecommendations which may be made to them by theGeneral Council of Bar. The Inner Temple, however, has not nominated itsproportion of nominative members of the Councilmentioned in the Constitution — besides the official' members forty-eight are elected by the whole bar. As far as the Circuits are concerned they from timeto time select candidates to be recommended forelection as Members of the Council, who then receiveat the election the general support of the members ofthe Circuit.
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