of the benefice and other circumstances, and the bishop may direct that the curate shall reside in the parsonage house.[120] (_d_) Where a commission appointed to inquire into the matter has reported that the ecclesiastical duties of a benefice are inadequately performed owing to the negligence of the incumbent, the bishop may either require the incumbent to nominate a curate or curates with sufficient stipend to be licensed to perform or assist in performing the duties, or may himself appoint a curate or curates to perform all or any of the duties, subject to an appeal to the court constituted under the Benefices Act, 1898.[121] A minister in charge has the rights and powers of an incumbent in certain particulars, such as the choice of a churchwarden, and, if the benefice is vacant, but not if the incumbent is bankrupt, the appointment of the parish clerk.[122] (_e_) Where under the New Parishes Act, 1843, what is called a Peel district is constituted, and a minister is licensed to it by the bishop, he occupies a somewhat ambiguous position during the interval before it becomes a separate ecclesiastical parish upon the consecration of a church within its area. He is in many respects in the position of a perpetual curate, being a corporation sole, subject to the jurisdiction of the bishop and archdeacon, and independent of the incumbent of the parish so far as his licence extends. But he has no power to take marriages or burials, and the inhabitants of the district retain their ecclesiastical position as parishioners of the parish out of which the district is formed.[123]