tion or endowment, the institution [thereof] shall be reserved to the bishop, and not to some other inferior person.
CHAPTER XIII.
The Presentation shall be made to the Ordinary; otherwise the Presentation and Institution shall be Null.
Furthermore, it shall not be lawful for a patron, under pretext of any privilege soever, to present any one, in any manner, to the benefices which are under his right of patronage, except to the ordinary bishop of the place, to whom the providing for, or the institution to, the said benefice would, that privilege ceasing, belong of right; otherwise the presentation and institution, which may happen to have followed, shall be, and shall be understood to be, null.
CHAPTER XIV.
The holy synod furthermore declares, that, in the next session, which it has already decreed to be holden on the 25th day of January, of the ensuing year, 1652, it will, together with the sacrifice of the Mass, so apply to, and treat of the sacrament of Orders, and that the subject of reformation will be pursued.
SESSION THE FIFTEENTH,
Being the fifth under the Sovereign Pontiff Julius III., celebrated on the twenty-fifth day of January, 1552.
DECREE FOR PROROGUING THE SESSION.
Whereas, in pursuance of what was decreed in the last sessions, this holy and universal synod has, during these days, most accurately and diligently treated of the things relating to the most holy sacrifice of the Mass, and to the sacrament of Orders, with the view that, in the session this day held, it might publish, as the Holy Ghost should have suggested, decrees on these subjects; and, furthermore, the four articles pertaining to the most holy sacrament of the Eucharist, which had been finally deferred to this session; and, whereas, it thought that in the interim, those would
