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Show 442 ACTS RELATING Part HI. -" Rome, of, and in the {aid province of " @ebec 9*, may have, hold, and enjoy, Sei‘t.VHI. TO THE Commas. 443 ragement of the protefiaiit religion, and the maintenance of a protefiant clergy. Such of the inhabitants as adhere to the ‘<‘ the free exercife of the religion of the " church of Rome, fubjeé'c to the king's "fupremacy, declared, and eftablifhed, by " an at]: made in the firt't year of the " reign of queen Elizabeth over all the another oath " countries which then did, or hereafter Thofe who refute or neglect to take this " Ihould belong T to the imperial crown of " this realm." The clergy of the church of Rome are confirmed in the enjoyment oath, are made liable to the fame penal- oftheir accuf'tomed dues and rights, with refpeét to fuch perfom only, as {hall profefs the {aid religion. Out of the wit of fuch accuftomed dues and rights, his ma~ Romilh church, are neither to take the oath prefer-ibed by the fiatute of Elizabeth, nor any oath hitherto fubftituted for it; but is prefcribed in this act, ties as by the act of Elizabeth would have been incurred for refufing to take the oath prefcribed in that act. The act then goes on to fecure his majefty's Canadian fubjeéts in @ebec (" the ‘F religious orders and communities only jefiy is empowered to make fuch provifion ‘3 excepted) in all their properties and poll as he {hall think expedient for the encou- ‘-‘ feflions, together with all the cuftoms ‘5 and uiages relative thereto, and all other ‘* Such is the uncouth phrafeology of the aft; {0 that one might be tempted to imagine the reli- gion of the church of Rome was one thing at chbcc, and a different thing clfewhere. f The words " bermfrrr flux/1 be," occur in the f‘ their civil rights, in as large, ample, " and beneficial a manner, as if thefaid "proclamation, commifiions, ordinances, xvi. feet. ofthe act of Elizabeth; the intent ofwhich ‘_ is to " extinguifh " all foreign power in countries " and other acts and infirumcnts had not " been made, and as may confift with within the dominion of England; but are dropt in the xix. tea. which impofes the oath of fuprcmacy. E‘ with their allegiance to his majefty, and ‘f fubjeéfion ragement |