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rage of one year with another , may not amount to 10 $ . per acre , perhaps not to 5 s , —or p 6 ssfbly to one penny . Yet he may bfe thus forced to pay li . or 2 s . per acre , at the command of his neighbouring Protestant tradesman : and ( as
an aggravation ) for pretended re * pairs , or needless ornaments , of * h ( fr ~ 1 ftrbte $ tant house of worship . The Catholics are also incapacitated from voting in vestries , upon any questfon " respecting the demising or disposi n g of the parish income or -estate ; or for the salary of the parish clerk ; or
at the election of any churchwarden- " By this interdiction the legislature has secured , to the Protest&ffi inhabitants in every parish , the power of nominating the church * warden—so as uniformly to
bestow the office upon a Protestant , iMhert ^ it is an office of profit or jratron&ge , as in Dublin , Cork , &c . and to inflict it upon a Catholic , where it is an office of expense , jrisK and labour , as in Kilkenny , &c . For the Catholic * if nominated , is cornpellable to execute this
office ia person , and dpes not par . t «] fke of the indulgence ( which * the law g ^ aqts to ths j £ > issenters ) of ej ^ eqj ^ ting it by deputy .
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€ 08 Penal Laws whidh aggrieve the Catholics \> f . Ireland j
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There already exists a magnificent fund , if duly husbanded , for building , rebuilding , repairing and embellishing , all the Protestant churches of Ireland , for twentv
years to corn e * por ' ^ io say noting of the prrseni iimouhVof die \ alue o ( criiii'ch larids , episcopal ., ¦ " 0 ^^ •*>*!• " l i * & . lit * , \ / V . « . * - j > * - rentsw annual iithe < s' &c , * or of the prod ) glotis encrease which they jbaye experienced of late years , it iT pe / Fc / fv " % / rotaf , ihit tfee i ^ gistativre n # grafiled regular
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tant churches , glebe 3 y & io an amount s 6 Whrpl © , as -io render these cHvtrch-rates iokoflyunnecesm
sari / . From trie year I 7 < 50 to 1800 , various- sum ¥ of public money , exceeding 150 , 000 / . have been granted by ParliaiiHentttD the commissioners trf First-fruits of Ireland
for building or repairing Protes . tant Churches . During the same period , a farther sum of IOO ^ OOQIj h ^ s been granted for building glebe houses . These donations are
continued annually , pursuant to the Act of Uriion , which stipulates , tc That ail grants for pious i « - stitutions in Ireland shall xontu nue fors tiventy years to come , at annual sums not lower than the
annual average sum to be taken for the next six years preceding the Union " . The average in these two qases appears , from the statuses , to have been 10 , 000 / . yearly , ( viz .
for churches bOOOL and for glebe houses 5000 / . ) and has according . Jy been so paid ever bince * We may therefore estimate the aggregate fund , subject to any expenditures made within the last ten
years , as consisting of the ibHow . ing &up& , at a rough calculation ; viz .
I . Of the unapplied Balance , remainine ; unappropriated in the Reverend Treasurers hamds , in 1800 , ( as appears by «^ Statute of 1803 ) about . . . . £% o * oqo a . The Parliamentary grant of 1803 , to the board of First-f ruitd 50 , 000
3 . The annual grants afoiresaid , ( xo « cooK from 1800 to x % x \ i inclusive ) ... ,. . 110 , . 4 . The annual revenues , ari * - ing from the First-fruits' fund , benefices , &e . sjnce 1800 , taken at a very moderate computation ao * oot
. . , ¦ ¦ £ 200 , 000 Surely ,, ^ ei ^ bfe H&pM J !!? annually aogteehted by aw add' -
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1812, page 608, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1753/page/12/
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