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the ground of the refusal was not any special desire to enforce
contributions for religious purposes.
In the case of the Australian Colonies? reservations for
religious purposes were included in the Constitution Acts of
New South Wales of 1855, Victoria of 1855, and Tasmania
of 1854, but no such provision was included in the Constitution
of South Australia of 1856, where there had always been
strong opposition to the English Church ; nor in the case of
Western Australia, when in due course in 1890 it was constituted.
In the case of Queensland the Act of 1867 in Schedule
A provided £1,000 for public worship. But in all cases it
was laid down that the appropriation for public worship was
not a matter in which the Imperial Government desired to
insist upon their own views, and it was open for the
Parliaments of the Colonies to repeal the amount reserved
in the Schedules, or to alter them as they thought fit,
and the amount was distributed among the several denominations
by the action of the Government according to
the principles of concurrent proportionate endowment. In
1862 (No. 19) after a struggle with the Upper House the
grant was revoked in New South Wales, with a saving of
existing rights.
In the case of Tasmania a Bill of 1859 for this purpose
was disallowed, but later on, in 1868, when the Act was
re-enacted, it received sanction? Similarly an Act (No. 3)
of 1860 ended it in Queensland.
In the case of Victoria the Upper House for many years
prevented the repeal of the appropriation for religious
services under the Constitution, but eventually in 1871
No. 391) it also assented to the change being made.
In the case of New Zealand no appropriation for religion
was included in the Constitution Act, nor was such appropriation
made in Newfoundland.
From the returns rendered in 1910 in response to an
* Parl. Pap., H. C. 529, 1864, p. 35.
* Cf. Earl Grey, Colonial Policy, ii. 335 seq.
See 32 Vict. No. 30. It gave a capital sum to each of the religious
lenominations which had participated in the grant of £15,000 a year.
