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any other person, "according to the laws and canons of the Church of England.".

By section 41 of the same statute power was given to the Canadian Legislature to alter these provisions; which that Legislature exercised in 1851, by an Act repealing the three sections above mentioned, but saving existing rights (with a peculiar reservation as

to the legality of past endowments, which was doubted in the province).

In Upper Canada an Act was passed in 1841, "to make provision for the management of the tempo- ralities of the United Church of England and Ireland in this province" (3 Vict. cap. 74). It relates to the rights of pewholders, churchwardens, vestries, &c.

After the Union of the Provinces, an Act was passed (1843)" to make provision for the manage- ment of the temporalities of the United Church of

England and Ireland in the Diocese of Quebec in this province," which is of the same nature with that already mentioned of Upper Canada.

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A further Act was passed in 1843, "to incorporate the Church Societies of the United Church of Eng- land and Ireland in the Dioceses of Quebec and Toronto." This Act recites that certain persons each Diocese had established themselves together with a constitution, rules, and regulations, and had engaged to contribute money, &c., for the encou- ragement of missionaries, the augmentation of the stipends of poor clergymen, establishment of schools, assistance of candidates for the ministry, circulation of the Scriptures, erection of churches and parsonage- houses. It proceeds to incorporate them for the purpose of holding property, and making rules and regulations for the management of the affairs of the Corporation, subject to the sanction of the Bishops.

In 1851 an Act was passed amending the last- mentioned, so as to adapt it to the creation of the new Diocese of Montreal. And another, "to make provision for the management of the temporalities of the Church of England and Ireland in the Dio- cese of Montreal," repeating for the most part the provisions of the Upper Canada Act.

(These last four Acts having been "reserved,” under the provisions of the Act of Union, do not

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appear in order in our ordinary collection of Canada Laws.).

None of these Acts appear, as far as I can ob- serve, to touch matters of doctrine or discipline.

The Canada Acts affecting the temporalities of the Church of Rome will be found in a collection printed

for Parliament, in 1850, with the heading, "Roman Catholic Church, India, &c."

I have not been able to ascertain what legislation

has taken place respecting the temporal affairs of other religious societies in Canada.

NOVA SCOTIA.

Title xiv, chap. 50, of the Revised Acts, is en- titled "Of the Church of England." It provides, that no minister of the Chuuch of England shall officiate, unless duly licensed by the Bishop: but no license can be refused without cause stated to the applicant in writing. It contains also provisions for the division of existing parishes;" election of churchwardens and vestry; their incorporation; mode of making assessments'; holding glebe lands, &c. Chapter 51 is entitled "Of Religious Congregations and Societies," and empowers any number of per- sons, not exceeding twenty, who may "desire to form themselves into a congregation of Christians"

to execute a trust-deed. Trustees to hold real estate not exceeding 2,0001.; personal, not exceeding 10,000. The Act further provides for the holding of meetings to make regulations "not contrary to the law of the Province," &c.

Chapter 52 is entitled "Of Assessments for the Repairs of Meeting-houses."

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Title xxviii, chap. 107, of the Revised Statutes is entitled " Of the Church of England," and provides that "no person shall be capable to be admitted to any parsonage or other ecclesiastical benefice or pro-

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