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of religions freedom
As to the second point
it seems to be assumed
public revenue
that the government will
contribute half the total Cost: but I may point
proportion
out that this sum has been fixed
as a
maximum, and considering
of the cost
total
the amount which has
A
in the present,
been spent in
and the large
have been of
this
case
Sums which
of late years
expended upon educational
objects
in
the
colony, I
do not consider that the
government would be
Justified in contributing
more than $5000. to be
handed
over
upon
the
regulations being duly
complied with.