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CLERGY RESERVES

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 497 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CLERGY RESERVES , in See also:Canada. By the See also:act of 1791, establishing the provinces of Upper and See also:Lower Canada, the See also:British See also:government set apart one-eighth of all the See also:crown lands for the support of " a See also:Protestant clergy." These reservations,' after being for many years a stumbling-See also:block to the economic development of the See also:province, and the cause of much See also:bitter See also:political and ecclesiastical controversy, were secularized by the See also:Canadian See also:parliament in 1854, and the proceeds applied to other purposes, chiefly educational. Owing to the wording of the imperial act, the amount set apart is often stated as one-seventh, and was sometimes claimed as such by the clergy.

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