The Third "Bishop of Nova Scotia ". Bishop Robert Stanser resigned because of ill health in 1824 and John Inglis was consecrated as the third Bishop of Nova Scotia on March 27th, 1825. During the September prior to his appointment, John Inglis , in his capacity as Ecclesiastical Commissary, circulated a Memorandum in which he set out points concerning finances for the support of the Bishop: The Province of New Brunswick is placed under the Jurisdiction of the Bishop of Nova Scotia by a Royal Commission which gives the same charge and employment to the Bishop in that Province, that he has in Nova Scotia - And these are considerable, and require so much of his attention that they may fairly be considered as claiming nearly half his time. This consideration, it is presumed, may well justify the appropriation of any disprovable funds in New Brunswick to the support of the Bishop - and to make such arrangement more obviously proper, it is submitted for consideration whether it would not be advisable that a new patent should constitute the Bishop, a Bishop of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick . It is supposed that this was not done at first merely because it was not known at that time, whether a separate Bishop might not be required for New Brunswick - whether the time for such appointment should arrive, there will be no difficulty in erecting a separate See.64 The Memorandum was accompanied by a document which contained a consideration for the drafting of the Letters Patent for the new bishop: Dr. Inglis should be designated in the Patent as 'Bishop of Nova Scotia & New Brunswick". If at any future period, it were deemed expedient to erect New Brunswick into a separate Bishopric, this would involve the necessity of an alteration of the Patent at that time, but it is intended that he should be equally Bishop of New Brunswick as of Nova Scotia , it seems expedient that he should bear the title of both.65 Although the Memorandum and the enclosed document recognized the validity and value of the Letters Patent as ' the ' legal document upon which the authority and jurisdiction of the Bishop of Nova Scotia was based, and in setting the definition and boundaries of his diocese, they misrepresented the origin and scope of the ecclesiastical jurisdiction conferred upon Bishop Charles Inglis by the two sets of letters Patent. Mr. G. Baillie of the Colonial 64. John Inglis Memorandum, September 1824, CO. 217 Nova Scotia . Public Archives of Nova Scotia . 65. Ibid. 42