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for

rach occasion when the fur calls upon a Clergyman

any

Denomination to my after perhaps 100

leaver

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12 cases ma

friends gear

I diller (eg. 1) who has no

or meansont opwhich in the Coling t to defray funeral expenses.

to item $72 for Messenger, tay the which is

Further

At

That

or must

The is claims

revoted this year, say that vote is disallowed, only be continued until the Messenger actually holding office when the Chaplain retired can be otherwise disposed of, if he considered to have any whom for, since the office clearly ceased to be a on the abolition of the Sexton of lack the mere & continuing to be paid, so ling officer holder of the office

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In office thee Chaplaincy;

is

X This is not a

fficer

Fixed Sata who like The Sexton harvested rights & pension,

but is mere Emploz

an

04

week

monthly Engagement

person) on the other hand

to hold office

the present whe in

the Fixed Estab. contimes to

hold that office guf.8//92.

C.PL.

So Branston

Itypuls In Johnson Laves a fair quest viz whether the pagment of the allowance for ministrations in Gaol and Hospital to

the Church Body, and their conesponding obligation to provide them, had not beller have been omcelled from the arrangement, leaving

the Government a free hand in this maller.

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On the other hand the allowance On

would probably not be sufficient to secure the services of a minister having

no other paid duty and, as nor Lucas suffects, it might helfe the Church Bodsout

in providing

a minister. On the whole I should be inclined to leave the Colonial Government and the Church Body to settle thier point their own way and to see how it work As to the amount of the Allowance to be paid to the several denominations for there services the only see Catholic

guide thee Pr. at prevent

i

we have

It seems they have received from The Military authorities #720 /

and aunumu for looking after 200 R. C exldiers in garreton, That they have received the same amount per anneem for looking after the sauce necember of R. (' in Gaol and Horpital But I Johnson estimate that althoughs 200 different R. 6. may pass through Gaoland Hospital in our year yet the daily averaji

•cionly of R. C. in those institutionis. 25 and that the allowance, où an arithmetical basis, shouldn therefore be only #gamistead of $720. But this, as the Johnson amplies, would