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No. 22.

SCHEDULES referred to in item (2) of the concluding request or prayer.

Bishop.

Rs.

75,000 + 8,200 = 83,200 instead of

Rs. 65,700 as

now.

A.

(Proposed Establishments.) Roman Catholic Church

50 Clergy.

Church of England

31,200 88 now (including Bishop)

= 31,200

Church of Scotland, say

-

7,000 instead of

Rs. 3,250

Rs. 121,400

SIR C. C. LEES to LORD KNUTSFORD. (Received February 3, 1890.)

Government House, Mauritius, January 9, 1890.

(No. 16.) MY LORD,

I HAVE the honour to transmit to your Lordship a memorial from the Presbyterial Committee and adherents of the Church of Scotland in Mauritius, with reference to the proposed redistribution of the ecclesiastical grants amongst the three Christian churches of this Colony.

The Right Hon. Lord Knutsford, C.G.M.G.,

&c.

&c.

&c.

I have, &c. (Signed)

C. C. LEES,

Governor.

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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Reference :-

C.O. 882

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC- COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH—NOT TO

18,000

Reduced annual grants to be distributed according to merits; or as 10: 4:1, (say) instead of former amount of Rs. 28,000

Annual provision

Rs. 139,400 128,150

Extra or excess vote required -

Rs. 11,250

Roman Catholic Church

(augmented).

•Church of England

(as now).

Church of Scotland

(augmented).

B.

Proposed Establishments

Reduced

Annual Grants

Proposed Totals.

as in A.

Former Totals.

aa 10: 4: 1.

R.. 63,200

Ra

Ro.

12,000

95,200

Rs. C. 80,680 10

81,200

4,800

30,000

7,000

1,200

8,200

42,180 00

5,389 90

121,400

18,000

189,400

128,150 00

Excess vote required as above

Totals-

11,250 00

189,400 00

• Under any of these schemes the Church of England would lose from Rs. 6,000 to Rs. 8,000, but the sweeping measure proposed would cause her to lose the enormous sum of Rs. 21,394 per

antium.

Norr.-The schemes referred to in item (1) of the prayer are illustrated tabularly in the protest to his Excellency the Governor in Council of the 2nd December, according to the marginal notes.

Enclosure in No. 22.

To the Right Hon. LORD KNUTSFORD, G.C.M.G., Her Majesty's Secretary of State

for the Colonies.

Mauritius, St Andrew's Church,

December 19, 1889.

MAY IT PLEASE YOUR LORDSHIP,

We, the members of the Presbyterial Committee and adherents (representing 10 congregations) of the Church of Scotland in Mauritius, have the honour to bring to your Lordship's notice :

1. That we have watched with deep interest all the proceedings which have of late taken place, in consequence of the agitation raised in connexion with the question of ecclesiastical revenues and grants from Government to the Christian churches of the Colony.

2. We learn with regret, from the minute of Sir John Pope Hennessy, dated the 28th of November, that a majority of members of the Executive and the Legislative Councils have voted for such a re-adjustment of the ecclesiastical grants as, if it were sanctioned by your Lordship, would weaken both the Protestant churches to an extent which is inore easily conceived than explained at the present crisis.

3. The majority of the congregations of the Church of Scotland in Mauritius belong to the humbler class of the community; and any diminution in the grant from Govern ment would be a serious drain upon their strained means.

4. We venture, therefore, to beg your Lordship to give your favourable attention to the basis of redistribution proposed in the Legislative Council by the Honourable Hamilton Stein, which would give ten-fifteenths, four-fifteenths, and one-fifteenth to the Roman Catholic Church, the Church of England, and the Church of Scotland, respectively.

Should your Lordship be pleased to sanction the redistribution on such basis, we have ample reason to believe that the decision would be acceptable to all Protestants in Mauritius.

H. C. SMITH. H. RYDER. WILLIAM SCOTT. J. H. STAFFORD. G. RAE.

A. TAYLOR.

We have, &c. (Signed)

JN. JH. STANdley. J. STANDLEY. WILLIAM BURNS. D. C. STANDLEY. JOHN HORNE, ROBT. HEATON. MURDO MCDONALD.

GEORGE MCIRVINE. J. J. LE BRUN. D. D'AVOINE, EVARISTE DUPUY. ROBT. FREELAND.

S. STANDLEY. R. VILBRO. TH. LEBON. C. FENEGAN. NUMA LÉON. ARTHUR BAPTISTE.____ JAMES HORNE.

FEE

A. DAVIDSON, M.D. R. B. GRAHAM. JAMES RAE. GEO. YOUNG.

A. Kalle.

F. A. ANTOINE.

CHARLES W. BREBNER. N. LEMINE. W. GRAVE.

JAS. FORRESTER Ånderson.

Dr. A. L. J. PETRICHER. W. McIRVINE. JN. C. SUZOR.

JULIUS L'HOMME.

L. JACQUES.