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restoration of St. Joseph's Church ___

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ruin in.

which became a complete the typhoon of September 1874. £ have the honour to inform Your Lordship that in December 1875- Bishop Raimondi applied to this Government for a grant of three thousand dollars to be devoted to

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the rebuilding of the Church.

I laid the application before the Legislative Council and after some discussion and after expression of opinion from Mr. Keswick to the effect that he doubted the propriety of principle of Governmental grants to any object of a purely_

as a matter

denominational character, the Cormeil

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inanimously voted a grant of fifteen hundred dollars for the rebuilding of the ruined church subject as on previous occasions to the condition that an equivalent amount be raised by private subscription.

As Bishop Raimondi has

since notified.

sum

me that the

-required to be raised by private subscription has already been collected. I have paid over to him the amount_ voted by the Legislative Council, and I have now the honour.

to request Your Lordship's ____