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to Frustees, to be maintained for use as a public school under the Grant-in-
Aid scheme; and that it would be absolutely out of the power of himself, or his successors, to close the school, or to withdraw it from Government supervision and control, in the event of serious alterations in the stipulations of the Grant-in-Aid code (which he contends that section 2(f) gives the power to make), which the Roman Catholic Church could not conscientiously accept.
It will be seen that
4. Bishop Raimondi expresses his firm belief that, so long as Your Lordship is at the head of the Colonial Office, no such change as he dreads, affecting the religious liberty of the Roman Catholics, would be sanctioned; but he represents that the assurance which you have given him would not be binding on Your Successors in office. He states, moreover, that the increasing tendency that is manifested in England to support secular rather than denominational education, leads him to fear that public opinion