Office pointed out these errors in a Memorandum of his own addressed to Wilmont Horton , the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies: It is to be observed that the Appointment of the Bishop of Nova Scotia consists of a Patent under the Great Seal in the usual terms as Bishop of Nova Scotia only & a Commission under the Sign Manual giving him Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction over the Province of New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island . Dr. Inglis is anxious that the powers given to him by the Commission should be included in the Patent and states (what I think can hardly be probable in those correct days) that the want of Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction over New Brunswick and the Island originated in a mistake and that the error was supplied by the Commission ... I suspect that Dr. Inglis looks forward to receiving a salary from New Brunswick and that is his real motive for wishing the alteration as it renders it more difficult to establish a separate See in that Province which Sir H. Douglas and the New Brunswick people are anxious to accomplish.66 Wilmont Horton passed the Memorandums along to Lord Bathurst , the secretary of State for the Colonies, who replied in a Minute67 that " Dr. Inglis would seem to decide the Question against New Brunswick ". He felt that this was a normal and predictable outcome since Inglis had been chosen to succeed as Bishop of Nova Scotia . In speaking of the resolution of the issue he said, "I prefer the present arrangement in the mode proposed by Baillie ...although I am much inclined to unite the whole in one See it will I think be better not unnecessarily to decide the Question."68 The growth and division of the areas under the jurisdiction of the Bishop had been foreseen and provided for at the time of the consecration of the first Bishop of Nova Scotia , Charles Inglis , by the drafting of two specific Letters Patent. This was done to aid and assist the division of the areas at an appropriate later date. A division of a proper necessitates the consent of the presiding bishop. The second Letters Patent, by which these areas were placed under the Bishop's jurisdiction, were granted for only as long as it was the Crown's will and pleasure that they should be in effect. This made the division of some of these areas from the remainder easier in that the consent of the Bishop of Nova Scotia was not required. The stipulations of the second Letters Patent of Bishop Charles Inglis were set out explicitly in the Letters Patent of Bishop John Inglis , in 1825. 66. Ibid. 67. A Memorandum or official note added to a document. 68. Ibid. 43