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his successor should only receive salary till the expiration
of the said five years. But a minister in receipt of a salary
at the taking effect of the Act, who at any time resigned his
post in order to accept a vacancy where the previous incum-
bent was also in receipt of such salary, was to receive until
death or resignation the same salary from public funds as his
predecessor in the vacancy. In 1910 four members of the
Church of England, and four members of the Dutch Reformed
Church were still receiving allowances in accordance with
that Act. Nothing was paid in Natal.
In the Orange River Colony in 1909-10 a sum of £8,380
was spent on religious services, divided between the Dutch
Reformed Church, the Church of England, the Reformed
Church, the Wesleyan Church, the Presbyterian Church, the
Lutheran Church, the Roman Catholic Church, the Hebrew
Congregation, and the Baptist Church.
In the Transvaal the expenditure on religious services has
been in connexion with hospitals, lunatic and leper asylums,
convict and other prisons, with £20,000 to repair the ravages
of the war.
In Canada payments were made only in respect of prison
and asylum services by the Dominion Government, and by
the Provincial Governments of Ontario, New Brunswick,
Manitoba, and British Columbia. But it must be remembered
that the Catholic Church in Quebec still enjoys all the
privileges conferred on it by the Quebec Act of 1774! and
that an ultramontane Legislature in 18882 made good to the
Jesuits the property of which they were deprived in 1763.
The Act was much opposed in Canada, outside Quebec, but
the Dominion Government no doubt rightly declined to inter-
fere with a very marked exercise of provincial autonomy.
It may be added that in New Zealand education is now
purely secular, that in New South Wales, Western Australia,
and Tasmania there is no denominational teaching, but
Christian doctrines are taught, and clergymen are permitted
' See Quebec Revised Statutes, 1909, Tit. ix.
See Provincial Legislation, 1867-95, pp. 407 seq., for the petitions
against the Act, and cf. Willison, Str Wilfrid Laurier, i. 258 seq.
