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A XLVI

CONFIDENTIAL.

Church Legislation in the Colonies.

(In continuation.)

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Reference :-

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Mr. Labouchere,

I SUPPOSE that the practical importance of the Church of England questions now pending is chiefly confined to the North American and Austra- lian colonies, being those in which alone there is a British population. It has occurred to me that it might be useful to have within reach a short index showing what has been done in the way of Colonial legislation, affecting Church subjects, in those two divisions of the Empire; and I have accordingly made the following compilation. But I must pre- mise that the great number of recent Acts in the larger Colonies, and the absence of index or digest in most of them, necessarily makes this an imperfect and uncertain collation, unless much more labour were bestowed on it than I have been able to do.

January 15, 1856.

H. MERIVALE.

2 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

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CANADA.

The Canada Government Act (of Parliament), 31 George III, c. 31 (by sections 38, 39, 40) em- powered the Governor to endow Rectories "accord- ing to the establishment of the Church of England," and to present to them ministers" dúly ordained;" and every person so presented was to enjoy the same "on the same terms and conditious, and liable to the performance of the same duties, as the incum- bent of a parish in England." Every such presenta- tion to be subject to the " ecclesiastical jurisdiction and authority" of the Bishop of Nova Scotia, or by

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