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15th January 5th April Advice advisers amendment authority Bill Canada members Canadian Parliament Church of England Church of Scotland Clear Grits Clergy Reserve Act Clergy Reserve question colony Committee Conservative constitute and erect Copy Crown dated Despatch from Lord Earl of Elgin ELGIN and KINCARDINE erected and endowed established Executive Council favour Fifty-seven Rectories Francis Head FRANCIS HINCKS French Canadian HINCKS Honourable House of Assembly Imperial Act Imperial Parliament instructions lands Legislative Council Lieutenant Governor Lieutenant-Governor Lord Bathurst Lord Elgin Lord Glenelg Lord Goderich Lordship Lower Canada Majesty Majesty's Government Majesty's Pleasure majority measure ment Ministry opinion Parsonage or Rectory party passed Protestant Clergy Province of Upper Provincial Legislature Provincial Parliament provisions Rectory question reference religious respect session settle settlement Sir Francis Head Sir John Colborne Statute 31 Geo tion Township or Parish Upper Canada valid and lawful vary or repeal vested views
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Page 48 - To THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. Most Gracious Sovereign, WE, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects the...
Page 60 - Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, constituted and assembled by virtue of and under the authority of an Act passed in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and intituled "An Act to Re-unite the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, and for the Government of Canada...
Page 48 - ... respecting the allotment and appropriation of lands for the support of a Protestant clergy...
Page 1 - Realm; and that the Clergy of the said Church may hold, receive, and enjoy, their accustomed Dues and Rights, with respect to such Persons only as shall profess the said Religion...
Page 31 - Seal of such province, to endow every such parsonage or rectory with so much or such part of the lands so allotted and appropriated as aforesaid, in respect of any lands within such township or parish, which shall have been granted subsequent to the commencement of...
Page 60 - And whereas in the state and condition of this province to which such a principle is peculiarly applicable it is desirable that the same should receive the sanction of direct legislative authority, recognizing and declaring the same as a fundamental principle of our civil polity...
Page 86 - Reserves. 2. I have laid this Address before Her Majesty, -who was pleased to receive it very graciously. 3. It is with sincere regret that Her Majesty's...
Page 54 - ... assigned and given to the clergy of the Churches of England and Scotland, or to any other religious bodies or denominations of Christians in Canada, and to which the faith of the crown is pledged, during the natural lives or incumbencies of the parties now receiving the same...
Page 84 - ... one so exclusively affecting the people of Canada that its decision ought not to be withdrawn from the provincial Legislature, to which it properly belongs to regulate all matters concerning the domestic interests of the province.
Page 84 - Majesty, that the refusal on the part of the Imperial Parliament to comply with the just demand of the representatives of the Canadian people on a matter exclusively affecting their own interests, will be viewed as a violation of their constitutional rights, and will lead to deep and wide-spread dissatisfaction among Her Majesty's Canadian subjects.