PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference :-
C.O. 882
See Minute of June 30, 1890.
See Minute of July 7, 1890.
with regard to the remainder of the total annual grant of Rs. 102,520, amounting to Rs. 36,820 (6), that this sum be distributed as follows :--
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Rs.
(No. 324.)
Priests to be added to the Establishment at Rs. 1,500 each per annum
without any right to pension
SIB,
=
15,000 12,000
For repairs to and construction of churches, chapels, and presbyteries For the education and recruiting and passage of priests when not paid by Government and for catechista, missionaries, and any other expenses connected with the Roman Catholic Church in Mauritius at the discre- tion of the Bishop
9,820
Rs. 36,820
(c.) The Ordinance to provide that if any part of the grant distributed as above be not withdrawn from the Treasury within any year, the balance remaining undrawn shall not lapse to the Public Treasury, but shall remain available.
(d.) The Bishop, however, after taking the advice of a Consultative Diocesan Council created by the Ordinance may apply to the construction and repairs of churches, chapels, and presbyteries the whole or part of the available balance of Rs. 15,000 provided for additional priests which may remain unspent.
(e.) That a Consultative Diocesan Council be constituted by the Ordinance consisting of the Vicar-General and of six Roman Catholic lay members.
The six lay members to be appointed in the first instance by the Ordinance. Two of them to go out at the end of the first and of the second year by lot, and at the end of the third and succeeding years by seniority of appointment.
Every year the remaining members will appoint by ballot the number of members necessary to fill up the two vacancies created as above, and also any other vacancy which may be caused by absence, resignation, death, or otherwise.
If two vacancies or more occur during one year, they will be filled up by ballot by the remaining members for the time during which the absent, resigning, or dead member would still have had to serve.
Outgoing members shall be re-eligible.
The Vicar-General shall be the President of the Diocesan Consultative Council and shall have an original and a casting vote in case of equality of votes,
(f) That the Bishop shall before the 1st day of April in every year deposit in the Registry of the Supreme Court an account showing how the three sums of Rs. 15,000, Rs. 12,000, and Rs. 9,820 have been spent, or if not spent the amounts remaining respectively unspent and available, and that the several sums amounting together to Rs. 36,820 shall be paid by the Treasury as follows:-the sum of Rs. 15,000 for additional priests on abstracts signed by the Bishop; the sum of Rs. 12,000 for repairs to and construction of churches, chapels, and presbyteries, on accounts approved by the Bishop; and the sum of Rs. 9,820 for the education, recruitment of priests, catechists, and other expenses connected with the Roman Catholic Church in Mauritius on receipts signed by the Bishop.
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(g.) That in churches or chapels built under Ordinance No. 54 of 1844, one fourth of the whole number of seats continue to be reserved for the olassen.
(k.) That in all other churches or chapels in the Colony one tenth of the seats be reserved for the poorer classes.
HUBERT E. H. JERNINGHAM, Chairman,
Council Chambers, 21st July 1890. Read and adopted at a meeting of the Council of Government held on the 12th August 1890.
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F. A. GIBSON, Acting Secretary to the Council of Government.
No. 5.
No. 6.
LORD KNUTSFORD to Sı C. C. LEES.
Downing Street, October 1, 1890. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch, No. 415, of the 20th of August,*_forwarding_with other documents the Minutes of the Proceedings together with the Report of a Committee of the Whole Council upon the redistribution of the Ecclesiastical Grants, together with the amended Report which was adopted by the Council of Government on the 12th of August.
I have already, in my Despatch, No. 259, of the 6th of August,† approved the principle of the scheme adopted by the Council, and I have now to convey to you my assent to the details of the scheme as reported in your present despatch, in confirmation of the telegram which I addressed to you on the 27th of September, við Zanzibar, to this effect.
Sir C. Lees.
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No. 7.
(Signed)
I have, &c.
KNUTSFORD.
COLONIAL OFFICE to BISHOP ROYSTON and the COLONIAL COMMITTEE OF THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.
RIGHT REVEREND SIR, SIB,
WITH reference to the letter from this Office of the 1st of March [5th of
Downing Street, October 3, 1890. April], I am directed by Lord Knutsford to transmit to you, for your information [the information of the Colonial Committee of the Church of Scotland], the accompanying copy of a Reports of the Committee of the Whole Council of Government of Mauritius on the subject of the distribution of the Ecclesiastical Grants in that Colony, which Report was adopted by the Council, and the recommendations contained in which bave now received Lord Knutsford's approval.
The Right Rev. Bishop Royston. The Convener of the Colonial
Committee of the Church of Scotland.
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I am, &c.
(Signed) EDWARD WINGFIELD.
No. 8.
SIR C. C. LEES to LORD KNUTSFORD. (Received February 26, 1891.)
Government House, Mauritius,
January 22, 1891.
(No. 48). MY LORD,
WITH reference to your Lordship's despatches,]] noted in the margin, I have the No. 72, honour to transmit, for Her Majesty's most gracious confirmation and allowance, 25 Feb. Ordinance No. 27 of 1890, "to provide for the payment of grants out of public funds in 1800
support of the Established Church of Scotland, the Church of England, and the Roman No. 26, "Catholic Church in Mauritius, and for the distribution of such grants.”
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2. A copy of the Procureur-General's report is enclosed.
The Right Hon. Lord Knutsford, G.C.M.G.,
&c.
&c.
&c.
6 Aug. 1800. Telegraphie
27 Bop
I have, &c. (Signed)
C. C. LEES,
Governor.
LORD KNUTSFORD to Sm C. C. LEES,
TELEGRAPHIC.
September 27, 1890. Referring to your Despatch, No. 415,* proposals approved.
• No. 4.
Enclosure 2 in No. 4.
↑ No. 89 and 31 in Eastern No. 81.
No. 27 in Eastern No. 61, and Nos. 3 and 6 in this papar.
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• No. 4.
† No. 8.
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