IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) V. A A :/, 1.0 l^y^S |25 Ui Uii 12.2 U Hli Z U£ i2.0 I.I ^ """ Mil L25 iU 11.6 I i^ '/] /, /: V /A CIHM/ICMH Microfiche Series. CIHIVI/ICIVIH Collection de microfiches. Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions Institut canndien de microreproductions historiques 1980 Technical Notes / No'>es techniques The institute has attempted to obtain the best originai copy available for filming. Physical features of this copy which may alter any of the images in the reproduction are checked below. D □ D D Coloured covers/ Couvertures de couleur Coloured maps/ Cartes giographiques en couleur Pages discoloured, stained or foxed/ Pages d6color6es, tachet6es ou piqu6es Tight binding (may cause shadows or distortion along interior margin)/ Reliure serr6 (peut causer de I'ombre ou de la distortion ie long de la marge int6rieure) L'Institut a microf iimi Ie meilleur exemplaire qu'il lui a 6x6 possible de se procurer. 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The last recorded frame on each microfiche shall contain the symbol — ► (meaning CONTINUED"), or the symbol y (meaning "END"), whichever applies. Les images suivantes ont 4t6 reproduites avec le plus grand soin, compte tenu de la condition et de la nettetA de rexemplaire film6, et en conformity avec les conditions du contrat de filmage. Un des symboles suivants apparattra sur la der- nidre image de cheque microfiche, selon le cas: le symbols —^ signifie "A SUIVRE", le symbole y signifie "FIN". The original copy was borrowed from, and filmed with, the kind consent of the following institution: Library of the Public Archives of Canada Maps or plates too large to be entirely included in one exposure are filmed beginning in the upper left hand corner, left to right and top to bottom, as many frames as required. The following diagrams illustrate the method: L'exemplaire film6 fut reproduit grAce A la g6n4rosit6 de I'Atablissement prAteur suivant : La bibliothAque des Archives publiques du Canada Les cartes ou les planches trop grandes pour Atre reproduites en un seul clichA sont filmAes A partir de I'angle supArieure gauche, de gauche A droite et de haut en bas, en prenant le nombre d'images nAcessaire. Le diagramme suivant illustre la mAthode : 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 Di CO pr pr 8b 8-t le Ti on be su to po laf Ih sh 80 tk tic >o im th '-} // TOKOXTO, 2l8T AIaroh, 1882. Dear Sib. — As one of your fellow ComrauterH and founders of the Temporalities' Fand, may T call your attention to its present state, as shown by the last report issued, a copy of which you have doubtless received. , ' In that report it is stated " that the revenues of the Board are not more at present than to meet the paymontH hitherto made to the Commuting Ministers, the privileged Ministers, and the annual giant to Queen's College," — a statement which shows the serious nature of the deterioration of a Fund, originally sufficient to pay 84 Commuting and privileged Ministers, besides non-privileged Ministers, the present revenues apparently sufficing for payments to only about 37 beneticiarieii. I need scarcely point out to you that, contrary to the compact on which the Trust was founded, no less than 119 Minirttors, MisBionarie:^, and probationers were, on the 14th Jane, 1875, declared by the majority of the Synod to be entitled to the benefits of this Fund, equally with ourselves, no matter whether the revenue was sufficient or not to meet such payments ; that Queen's College was declared entitled to S2,000 a year, which could be capitalize! at any time out of the Fund; aai that power was taken to encroach on the capital of the fiipnd to meet the deficit. By the last report, you will find that the Fund now amounts to only $332,192.98, instead ox*" Ihe original sum Oi $503,000, and tli:it Ih&l amoaiil is rupiuiy leSsoniug. May I ask your serious attention to the report to which I have referred, which sIjowb that not only has the Fund not boon husbanded, but that it has been and is being 80 rapidly dimiuisbed as inevitably to lead to its speedy extinction, and the depriva- tion of the annuity originally guaranteed to you. I have learned that out of the 28 surviving Commuters 12 have alreadj'^ peti- tioned Parliament praying that no encroachment on the Capital be permitted. If yon have not also petitioned to that effect, is it not of vital importance that you vshould do HO at once ? There seems every reason to believe that if a strong and immediate, roinonstrance be not made by the Commuters by petition to Parliament the Fund will bo completely dostrojed. I am, Dear Sir, Yours sincerely, JOHN BARCLAY, D.D. /