7.-The following provisions are made for the Chaplain to the Church of England
Salary....
Chuir allowance...
3,840
(Extracted from the "Pastoral Gazette," Bombay, December 29th, 1877.)
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Revised Rules for Grants for Construction of Churches.
Public Works Department, No. 212 A.-1556 of 1877, dated Bombay, 23rd Nov., 1877.
Clerk
Sexton
Messenger
Surplices, &c.,....
Total..
24
720
72
24
4,998
8.-I submit respectfully that the above provision for the erection and maintonance of the fabric of the Cathedral of St. John and payment of the Chaplain is only what is fair and reasonable, and what should be expected from the Colonial Government.
9.-The Roman Catholics have built the Church of the IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, Wellington Street, which provides for the accommodation of 1,200 persons, besides other Churches which provide for less numbers.
10. The assistance received from Colouial Government towards the erection of church accom→ modation for the 4,000 Roman Catholics, (see paragraph 4) and the 318 Roman Catholics, employées of the Colonial Government (see paragraph 1)
$
4,500
11.-The suns received yearly by the Roman Catholic Chaplain for attendance upon the 318 Roman Catholic employées and their families of the Colonial Government (paragraph 1) and the 4,000 other Roman Catholics in the Island, (paragraph 4)
nil.
12.-The religious denominations of the Europeans and Americans in Hongkong as shewn by the Blue Book for 1876, (see tables 3 and 4 at the end of the book) were as follows:-
Protestants of all denominations.
Roman Catholics (quite underrated, their number being 4,000)
13.-Paid to the Protestant Chaplain yearly.
Paid Roman Catholic Chaplains......
750
1,911
$ 4,998
nil.
14.-Paid for Church accommodation for the above number of Protestants
$31,000
Paid for Roman Catholics
Paid annually to St. John's Cathedral for the use of the troops of the Church of England Paid for Roman Catholics
4,500 500
nit.
15.-It is submitted that in common justice to the tax-paying Catholic community of this Colony, they ought to be placed on the same footing with their Protestant fellow-subjects and tax-payers as regards grants for providing Church accommodation and salaries to Chaplains.
HONGKONG, 19th March, 1880.
Joben Garments
Bishop of Acantho in pi, Vicar Apostolic of Hongkong,
* See Colonial Estimates, Hongkong, 1880, p. 22.
Classification of Charges.
1.-All charges for hurches, whether in Civil or Military Stations, are dealt with under the general head Civil Buildings. In the case of Churches in Stations where there are Military Cantonments, and the Military Works in which are under the charge of the fuspector General, Military Works, and in the case of those Churches in Provinces to which the Provincial Service arrangements do not apply, the necessary funds for the works will he provided for from the Ordinary grant for Imperial Works under Other Services." will have to be provided for from the allotment for Provincial Services.
Expenditure of Government money on Churches.
In other cases the funds
2-The provision from Public Works Funds of Churches at Military and Civil Stations is authorized under the limitations given in the following paragraphs.
Military Stations.
Cases in which Churches will be provided.
3. At all permanent Military Stations, Churches will be provided by the Government for its Protestant and Roman Catholic British-born European Soldiers on the scale laid down in paragraph 6.
Amount of grant for a Protestant Military Church.
4.-The amount of the Government grant for a Protestant Church at a Military Station will in no case exceed such a sum as will suffice to provide a plain, substantial building of the simplest ecclesiastical design, together with such plain furniture as is essentially necessary for the proper performance of the service according to the ritual of the Church of England. It will rest with private individuals to furnish the means of imparting any but the simplest ccclesiastical features and architectural decorations to the building, should they desire to do so, and also of sapplying additional furniture, or furniture (including apparatus for lighting) of a more costly description.
Roman Catholic Military Churches.
5.-The same principles will regulate the grant for Roman Catholic Churches at Military Stations.
Number of sittings to be provided in Military Churches.
6.—The number of sittings to be provided in Churches in Military Stations will be calculated on the fol- lowing scale :——
DETAIL.
PROTESTANT.
ROMAN CATHOLIC.
Regiment of British Infantry
Nos. 400
Nos. 300
Wing of
200
130
Regiment of British Cavalry
250
150
Wing of
150
100
Troop of Horse Artillery or Light Field Battery
100
30
Heavy Field Battery.
100
50
Garrison Battery
50
May include provision for additional sittings in cert in cases.
7.—Any reasonable provision that may be necessary can also be made for Staff Officers, Officers of Native Regiments, and where no Civil Church exists, for British-born European sabjects in the service of Government or of the local Railway Company.
Limitation on provision of Churches in each Station,
8.-As a rule, only one Protestant Church and one Roman Catholic Church will be provided at any Military Station, and where the number of sittings required for the troops according to the scale given in paragraph 6 is very large, the size of the Church may be regulated so as to allow of at least one-half of the troops attending service at oue time.
Government grants for Churches.
9.- The Government grants for Churches at Military Statious will be regulated on the following basis. The Executive Engineer should prepare a ground plan, which will afford accommodation for the total congrega tion to be provided for according to the scale laid down in paragraphs 6 and 7, allowing & superficial feat per sitting, exclusive of all passages and other parts not actually occupied by the congregation. To the total super- ficial area thus arrived at and sanctioned by competent authority may be applied a rate per superficial foot 25 per cent. in excess of that which prevails at the Station (or at any Station in the District where the general rates for works are the same) for ordinary single-storied buildings. The result will represent the Government grant.
Civil Stations.
Churches at principal Civil Stations.
10-At the chief Civil Station of a District, or at a Bailway Station where there are at least 25 British. born European subjects, Protestants or Koman Catholics, in the service of Government or of a Railway Company,
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