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/TASMANIA. I
LEGISLATIVE COUHnrr. I
j.de3day, May nqni
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mi . ullK "ftlUQK titrT
wns rMd »
.iiOBAnT TOWN roHDE
pJsoll. blU » C'ird tho,
punioso of rooonaideriuE tKV"5'1' ,otfti
. Mr. CHAPMAN 1novcJ at'ccH,)»-
tlio oiauso providing that tl,nl!r"'lmc»lia
l» I»id whon tho rovrgLtE'M
not as minister of St. Andrewl
(up possession of the ehSM.S'15iJ
.manse and glebe oeonni»Sti ' w.cl «' t£
PmsbylMrinn Churdi "
, . Oil tlio question that tlio reportri, u .
considered next day, '"«ild
Dr. AGNEW said that if «.
passed, tho freedom of coMci? 9
.to XSprovfsiTO mbb'eX &
to doliver up possession to S. T'
appomtod by Government, .
Mr. CHAPMAN said tho bill »M.
.abort on., and _ could not be
.violating conscience. " wa«rei u
Tho PRE MI KU said that H fL
the clause as amended thoy &sK
.would bo virtually constitntfni t?11
into . a Presbytery to doal wfth nS
which wero entirely foroim to ll,.'. :/!
bo their object. Ho dH 5
.pajrsviSfirs
The grants «nd <nnolumo.'K«" hot 2
ovorto the establisliod Charch nfSrl
, originally, but to a now bmly whosoS
tution was legalised last session W S
mont : but whose existence was not ircomS
, by. oithor the, established or free cimS
.yquestion of 1, ending ovstho S
had nothing to do with tho Lcgi.lotuM
thoy should find out who owned t//
P:/1/'-y.b0'ngcdter„„/X
oLS'i Andrews, . a manifest injustice U
bo dono if they, wero handed ovor.tosniZ
trihnnol fG Supremo Court wits the im
tnbnnnl tost tho question, enJ S.
to intetfero in thi
matter by oncumbering tho bill with
conditions. Mr. Stono had no tight to hni
.ovcr any of tho property, wha, for ah
gatfon.nOW' Waa Pr01)0r'y ril,l!
i O'.Mr- MOORE , took a. dilTcrcnt view oi tb(
matter. Pho caso was a Bpcci.il one, the
pension being requested by W. Stone, b)
.gaily, had no right to tlio property. It to
only proper tlmt tlio conditions should he
'T inSS f1'0 question to be settled.
' Mf. AHxENIIEAD snid tlmt Mr. Ste
scouted, tlio idea of liis being tho prim
movor in tlio question of a pension, butthit
it was suggostod by Mcssra. Giblin
Chapman.
Mr. CHAPMAN sniil that Mr. Stew
objected to tlio pausing of the Chord
Act, and told him (Mr. Cb»
man) that as lio stood alone in the
church, ho would accept a pension of XSOOi
year and retire. Such wns tho outcome ch
discussion which thoy had on tho questta
after which Mr. Storio communicated to tl<
Government his willingness to retira open
hisponsion. Mr. Storio had said that he
agreed avith the bill ns it passed the Astern
.bly, and would quit, but not givo up iiosset
sion of tho manso and glebo to a body, which
ho did not and .would not recognise.
Mr, CAMERON thought that the bet
courso to pursue wns to accept tlie bill nit
camo from tlio Assembly, or reject it alto
gether, as unless Air. Storio accepted it tb
act would bo moro wnsto paper.
Mr. CHAPMAN said tho fco of the pro
perty would -not bo banded over to tk
Presbytery, but would fall back upon u
Act previously passed.
ta8hanian council of f.ducatiqs bul
Tho bill to amend tlio Tasmanian C«md
of Education and Scholarship Act wasmdi
second timo and committed.
Tho clauses wore passed without amtri-
.mentond'reported/tlio third reading bti
mado an order of tho .day for noxt day.
adjournment.
Tho Couucil, at 5 o'clock, adjourned til
4 o'clock noxt .day.;
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