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Roman

for the Pornuss. Catholic Chaplain

attending

2.

the Gaol and Civil Hospital.

The content of this

5 of this despatch

have been communicated to Bishop

Raimondi .

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Your Lordship approves of

my proposal that the Roman Catholic

Clergy, , in common with the Auglican Clergy, should receive some pemuneration for their ministrations in the Gaol and Civil Hospital, the account to be n

deterinived on the principle euggested

rue in paragraph 12 of my

me

by sm despatch N. 138 of the 26 April

th

e principle

ulting, — that is, up on the,

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adopted by the Military

the Military Authorities in

Catholic

the payment of the Roman Cathed ic Chaplains to the Troops. That principle

is a

capitation rate, which gives at -present a salary of about sixty dollars ($60) a month for are average

of

two hundred (200) Roman

"Catholic soldiers now in garrison

at

I find that the

Houghong. I find.

Cause number is about the average

of the Roman Catholics in the Gaol

" and Civil Hospital. Accordingly,

Enclosure with the advice of the Exxecutive.

Concil, I proposed to Bishop.

Raimondi a salary of sixty dollars

($60)

adopted

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