The Church Review, and Ecclesiastical Register. Volume IV.-1851-52 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 Excerpt: ...or required." And yet this is the man who proposed to the Queen and to Parliament to wrest from the Church in Canada the Clergy Reserve Lands; as gross an act of sacrilege as ever provoked the justice of Heaven. ANTI-ROMISH AGGRESSION BILL. This Bill, which as amended only imposes a fine of 100 for the assumption of Romish titles, but omits the forfeiture of trusts as in its first draft, is creeping its way through the Lower 1 lou.se with the healthy majority of 271 to 30. RELIGIOUS HOUSES ACT 1851. The Bill brought in by Mr. Lacy arid Mr. Spooner, to prevent the forcible detention of females in houses wherein persons bound by rehgious or monastic vows are resident or associated, provides that such house shall be registered by the clerk of the peace of the county in which it is situate; that the justices for every county in which any religious house shall be registered shall appoint six or more justices of the peace to act as visitors of each house, who shall be swurn to the following oath: "LA. B., do swear that I will discreetly, impartially, and faithfully execute all the trusts committed unto me by virtue of an Act of Parliament made and passed in the fourteenth and fifteenth years of the reign of her Majesty Queen Victoria, entitled 'An Act to Prevent the Forcible Detention of Females in Religious Houses;' and that I will keep secret all such matters as shall come to my know edge in the execution of my office as visitor, except when required to divulge the same by legal authority, or so far as I shall feel myself called upon to do so for the better execution of the duty imposed on mc by the said Act So help me God." Registered religious houses shall be visited twice a year without notice, and for such a length of time as they thin...