RESERVOIR

(Fr.) A tank, or pond, in which water is collected and preserved in order to he conveyed through pipes for the supply of a town, . Thus, Edinburgh is chiefly supplied with water by springs collected in a magnificent reservoir seven miles distant from the city. The term is also applied to a place where water is collected and preserved for the more regular supply of a fountain or drinking trough in seasons when it is not naturally abundant. RESIDENCE OF CLERGYMEN ON THEIR BENEFICES, is enjoined by the common law of England, as well as by the canon law and many statutory provisions. These last are now consolidated by 1 & 2 Vict. c. 1( 6. Under that act, an incumbent is considered to be non. resident if he is absent for one or more periods exceeding in the whole three calendar months in each year; and will be liable to the penalties unle he has obtained a licence for non-residence from the bishop, or is within any of the statutory exemptions. The licence may be given, when there is no house or fit place of residence, to reside in some fit or convenient house described in the licence, which must be within three miles of the church; or within two, if the church be in a city, market, or borough town. The statutory exemptions are in favour of a variety of officers of cathedral and collegiate churches; who may not, however, be absent on account of their residence and performance of duty elsewhere for more than live months. Licences for absence from the benefice may also be granted by the bishop, on petition, for a few other causes: incapacity of mind or body; the dangerous illne of a wife or child, part of the family, — in which case the licence is only for six months, and requires the archbishop's renewal; and in case a house convenient for residence cannot be procured within the benefice. The penalties are fixed in a graduated scale, being the pretixtures of portions of the value of the benefice, and may be proceeded for in the bishop's court. The bishop may also proceed by monition and sequestration. [s. 1059]