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QUEBEC ACT

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 730 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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QUEBEC See also:ACT , the See also:title usually given to a See also:bill introduced into the See also:House of Lords on May 2, 1774, entitled " An Act for making more Effectual See also:Provision for the See also:Government of the See also:Province of Quebec, in See also:North See also:America." It passed the House of Lords on May 17, was discussed in the See also:Commons from May 26 to See also:June 13, and finally passed with some amendments. These were accepted by the Lords, in spite of the opposition of See also:Lord See also:Chatham, and the bill received the royal assent on June 22. The debates in the House of Commons are not found in the See also:Parliamentary See also:History, but were published separately by J. See also:Wright in 1839. The speech of Lord Chatham is given in the Chatham See also:Correspondence (iv. 351-353). By this act the boundaries of the See also:Canadian province of Quebec were extended so as to include much of the See also:country between the See also:Ohio and the See also:Mississippi. The See also:French inhabitants of the province were granted the See also:liberty to profess " the See also:religion of the See also:Church of See also:Rome"; the French See also:civil See also:law was established, though in criminal law the See also:English See also:code was introduced. Government was vested in a See also:governor and See also:council, a representative See also:assembly not being granted till the Constitutional Act of 1791. The granting of See also:part of the Western territory to Quebec, and the recognition of the See also:Roman See also:Catholic religion, greatly angered the See also:American colonies. On the other See also:hand, it did much to keep the French Canadians from joining the Americans in the coming struggle. The act is still looked back to by the French in See also:Canada as their See also:great See also:charter of liberty.

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clergy. First-fruits (See also:annates) and tenths (decimae) formed originally part of the See also:revenue paid by the clergy to the papal See also:exchequer. The former consist of the first whole See also:year's profit of all spiritual preferments, the latter of one-tenth of their See also:annual profits after the first year. In accordance with the provisions of two acts (5 & 6 See also:Anne, c. 24, and 6 Anne, c. 27) about 3900 poor livings under the annual value of £5o were discharged from first-fruits and tenths. The income derived from first-fruits and tenths was annexed to the revenue of the See also:crown in 1535 (26 See also:Hen. VIII. c. 3), and so continued until 1703. Since that date there has been a large See also:mass of legislation dealing with See also:Queen Anne's See also:Bounty, the effect of which will be found set forth in a See also:Report of a See also:Joint Select See also:Committee on the Queen Anne's Bounty See also:Board, 190o. The See also:governors consist of the archbishops and bishops, some of the See also:principal See also:officers of the government, and the See also:chief legal and judicial authorities. The See also:augmentation proceeds on the principle of assisting the smallest benefices first.

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cures not exceeding £10 per annum must have received £200 before the governors can proceed to assist those not exceeding £20 per annum. In See also:order to encourage benefactions, the governors may give £200 to cures not exceeding £45 a year, where any See also:person will give the same or a greater sum. The See also:average income from first-fruits and tenths is a little more than C16,000 a year. In 1906 the See also:trust funds in the hands of he governors amounted to £7,023,000. The grants in 1906 mounted to £28,607, the benefactions to £29,888. The accounts are laid annually before the See also:king in council and the houses of See also:parliament. The duties of the governors are not confined to the augmentation of benefices. They may in addition lend See also:money for the repair and rebuilding of residences and for the See also:execution of See also:works required by the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Acts, and may receive and apply See also:compensation money in respect of the enfranchisement of copyholds on any See also:benefice. The governors are unpaid; the treasurer and secretary receives a See also:salary of £See also:i000 a year. He is appointed by patent under the great See also:seal, and holds See also:office during the See also:pleasure of the crown.

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