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Considering thirdly, that the sums laid out by the State for the Ecclesiastical Budget are distributed in a quite unequal measure, since the Protestant communities, towards which the State has contracted no obligation whatever, receive, in proportion to the numbers of their respective adherents, seven times more than the Catholic community;
The Congress, echoing the, often repeated reclamations of the Catholics, protests against this flagrant inequality, and expresses its demand that the budget of the Catholic Church be placed as soon as possible on an equitable footing.
II. RESOLUTION.
The Congress expresses the wish that the instruction, primary as well as secondary, of the children of both sexes of the Catholic population of this island be imparted in thoroughly Catholic schools; and for this end it demands that all possible means be employed in order to obtain from Government complete freedom of education and an equitable assistance to the Catholic educational institutions.
French original.
I. RÉSOLUTION, proposée par l'Honorable Henri Adam, secondée par le Dr. Poupinel de Valence : (See pages 8 and 9.)
II. RÉSOLUTION, proposée par le Très Révérend P. Etcheverry, et secondée Frédéric Robert:
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"Le Congrès émet le vœu que l'instruction, tant primaire que secondaire, des garçons et des filles de la population catholique de l'île, soit donnée dans des établissements foncièrement catholiques. Il demande à cet effet que tous les moyens possibles soient employés pour obtenir du Gouvernement la liberté complète de l'enseignement et une assistance équitable en faveur des institutions catholiques."
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Enclosure in No. 6.
To the Right Hon. Lond KNUTSFORD, G.C.M.G., Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies.
MY LORD,
Port Louis, Mauritius, July 30, 1889.
I HAVE the honour, in the name of the Council of the "Union Catholique de l'Ile Maurice," to approach your Lordship on behalf of the Society I represent, to * earnestly support the resolution of the senior member of Port Louis in favour of a just distribution of the ecclesiastical grants now payable-but according to so inequitable a scale to the Catholic and Protestant churches in Mauritius.
Since our former communication regarding the grievances of the Catholic community, the political constitution of this Colony has been altered by Her Majesty, and the inhabitants of all religions and races in the island now enjoy the benefit of an elected system under which they can express, through their representatives in the Council of Government, their wishes and necessities.
We therefore only ask your Lordship to allow this question to be freely discussed and decided by the votes of those who constitutionally and lawfully represent the taxpayers
every class and race in the Colony.
of
I have, &c.
(Signed) H. ADAM,
President of the "Union Catholique de l'Ile Maurice," incorporated by Ordinance No. 17, of 1880.
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† L. M., Archb.
17655.
No. 7.
17642.
(No. 374.) MY LORD,
No. 6.
SIR J. POPE HENNESSY to LORD KNUTSFORD. (Received September 3, 1889.)
Government House, Mauritius, August 8, 1889. ADVERTING to my Despatches, Nos. 327 and 329, of the 11th of July 1889,* I have the honour to transmit a letter addressed to your Lordship by the Honourable H. Adam, the elected member for Flacq, who, in the name and on behalf of the Union Catholique," asks your Lordship to allow Dr. Beaugeard's motion, for a just distribution of the ecclesiastical grants, to be freely discussed and decided in the Council of Government, by those who represent the taxpayers of every class and race in the Colony.
The Right Hon. Lord Knutsford, G.C.M.G.,
I have, &c. (Signed)
J. POPE HENNESSY.
SIB J. POPE HENNESSY to LORD KNUTSFORD. (Received September 3, 1889.)
(No. 387.)
Government House, Mauritius, MY LORD,
August 9, 1889. ADVERTING to my Despatch, No. 330, of the 11th ultimo, I have the honour to enclose a letter addressed to your Lordship by Bishop Royston, six other members of the Diocesan Council of the Church of England and the Chaplain of the Church of Scotland in Mauritius, praying your Lordship to disallow any such transfer of vacant appointments as indicated by Dr. Beaugeard's motion in the Council of Government, a copy of which was transmitted in my Despatch, No. 329, of the 11th ultimo.†
I have, &c.
The Right Hon. Lord Knutsford, G.C.M.G.,
&c.
&c.
&c.
(Signed)
J. POPE HENNESSY.
&c.
&c.
&c.
Nos. 1 and 2.
MY LORD,
Enclosure in No. 7.
Bishopthorpe, Mauritius,
August 10, 1889. By request of our "Diocesan Church Council," I have the honour to address direct to your Lordship the accompanying copy of an important memorial which they
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