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Las diagrammas suivants illustrant la miithoda. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 An Appendix to a petition presented io the Rmorahle the Rouse of Assemhhj, dated Oct. \m,\%bA, and cmi- taining a fuller delnil of tlir rireumslunces connected with the claims of the Glergymen, whose names are there- unto appnided, as claimants fur arrears of Salari/. .«*,.. .4»f.- Tlio undersigned r.picsent, thnt in tlu^ early .seulau.ent of Uppei- Canada, whenever a missionary wn,, sent from the Mother Country, two-thirds of his Salary were usually paid by the h.iperial Government, and on- -third by the " N'cuerable the Sicioty for the propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts." In the year 1S1;5, ICarl Bathurst proposed to the Society, that instead of granting a portion of the Salary of each Missionary as he was appoint. ', the Government w„uld grant to the Society an Annual Sum ofJElG.OOO Sterling, to aid in sustaining Clergymen, as Missionaries, in British North Am»rica. lie Society afcqite^the proposal, nn-J thus beca.ne in effect merely the Affcnt or Medium of the Government for the distribution of that su,n, tiuU the Society on t\w full faith of Uic continuance of that annual Parliaraentarv grant of ilO.OOO Sterlmg, made engagements at various limes with the Missionaries, assuring t',em the/«^; Sahri/ of£'200^tcrltns, per annum ; togethe. with any advantage, which they might derive from the possession of irlel,,:* ■ whde the people were expected and re(|uired to build Churches, ur.^ .-rect or i)rovide I'arsona-es for the ilissionaries. " ' These engagements continued to be made by the Society, (,r their Agent and Hcprcsentative in Canada, the Dishop of the Diocese, and usually on the same terms, until tho year lb30, when the Society passed a General liesolution, that its/«/,n'e Alissionaries sho.dd not receive a Salary to exceed £loJ Sterling per annum, neverthe- less, the liishop of Quebec, as the lieprcsentative of the Society in Canad^i, and having no doubt discretionary power, did make special promises of ,£2iK) Sterling per annum, to some whose names are appended to the Petition, and on the futh of which, they were induced to leave their native Country ; while others of the Petitioners re- present, that they were at the tiiue Students for Holy Orders, under the express promise or expectation, that when ordained, they would also receive the .same Salary ; that this state of things continued to exist until the Parlia- mentary Grant was reduced in 1832, and finally ceased in 18:',L By the discontinuance of this grant, the Venerable Soci.'ty was compelled to announce to its Missionaries, the inability of the Society to pay the Clergy their Salaries out of its own income, this announcement naturally caused great anxiety, and the Missonaries immediately represented tj tlie Society aiid to the Government, the extreme hard.'.hip of their position, the Society also strongly urged the claims of the I\Iissiouarics, to wh,)ia they contended that the faith of the Crown was virtually pledged. The Society in its Report for 1833, page 37, thus refers to „^e|i. transactions :— " The Clercy had acneptpd th^Sr .•.F[-,.^:i,»uScr.t.s-!n ."rtll coafid'encd thitttlie S'oSety^^uld be' enabled " '■ to make good the stipulate,! salaries, and to pay ';he" p?nsions offered by His Majesty's Government in 1813. " They had in many instances left th;;ii- native land, am' settled do vu in ths wilderness, with the most implicit "rc/u(?!(«on the fulfilment of these engagements." Their 'representations for relief were .str-ngthened by the " statements forwarded by the Colonial Authorities, both Ecclesiastical and Civil. The justice of the claim was "admitted by His Majesty's Government, and they have c.mciii.ied an arrangement with the Society, bv which the " more immediate and iirgrnt wants of the Clergy will be supplied." The arrangement thus referred to, was to the following effect : The Imperial Government represented to the Society, that in I'pper Canada, Nova Scotia, and a part of New Brunswick, there were Colonial resources available, from which they could pay the .Missionaries, and accordingly they proposed to take these MisMonarics from the Society's charge, if the Society would pay the :\lissi()naries in Lower Canada, Newfoundland, and othe- parts of British North Aineric.,. To this arrangement the Society at once consented, and the Missionaries in Upper Canada were accordingly transferred to the (iover.iment, and ceased to have any further connection with the Society, The Government, upon examining the means at their disposal in U, per Caaada, found them inadequate to meet the full amount of their Salaries, which the Missionaries had preTiously enjoyed, and which had been pledged to them for life. The Government, therefore, while they fully admitted the justice of our claims, and recognized the prin- ciple of protecting from loss of income, those who were actually employed, yet at the same time found themselves obliged from the insufficicney of the means at their dispost.1 in Upper Canada, to reduce the Salaries of the Mission- aries to 85 per cent of their former amount, in other words allowing them only £170, instead of £200 Sterling, From the language used by the Government of the day we learn the view which it took of the nature of its obli- gations to the Missionaries. The Right Honorable E.G. Stanley (now Lord Derby), at that time Secretary of State for the Colonics, thus expre.s.ses himself, " On a review of all the representations which have reached him " Mr. Stanley cannot but regard it as much to be lamented that the Jlissionaries should not receive t\xa emolument " of which the expectation was held out to them, when they proceeded to the Colonies. The principle of protect- " ing persons actually in employment from loss was sanctioned by Parliament in the case of the rest of the North "American Clergy, and although there are unfortunately not the means of carrying this rule fully into effect in the " case of the Missionaries, Mr. Stanley feels the justice of acting upon it so far as circumstances will permit." * * ♦ " Mr. Stanley is constrained to acknowledge, that considering the limited means at its disposal, the Government "cannot with propriety engage to provide the full amount of the Salaries of the Missionaries in Upper Canada, " but he would r.ot on thai :tccou..t abstain l"iom making such an effort on beiialf of the Clergy, as is practicable and " commensurate with the means which the Government can command." and he then go on to .hew how " though "ni)t wilhout difliciilly," ii " pryniciit of sr) pci •nt," might be niiiisity, nrisinijfrom the inadequacy jf the fu id't iit their dispuvd in tlie Colony. Ifthoy liad possoss'dthe means, it is apparent beyond all doubt, that they woidil have paid the full amount to which in truth, the I'ailh of the Cro.vn was in a measure |)lod;;ed, l)y payin;; H^i jier cent of the original Salaries, and urging .solely inaLiliiy arising fi*o!t insurticiency of funds to uieei tlv,' full iniount, the (i!)ver:inK'ut, ns stated in the Petition, admitted the equity of tha claim fur the full anunint if 10 l per cent, an 1 moreover justified the expectation that at some liirure period, tlie lois sustained by thj reduction of l/J ]» r cent, would be made good to them. They were further L-d to entertain and cherisli this expectation frcm tlio 1 iugiiage of their then excel- lent Bishop, the late pions Ut.otor Htewart, that Venera!)le liishop, acting ..< the medium of eommmiicatii>ii between the Government and his Clergy, when anno incing the reduction of our Salaries, h Id out to us the hipe, that whenever the income ot the (Jiergy ileserve Fund would admit of un increase of our Sdaries, they would be ngaiii restored to their original amojnt. To this h')pe the Missionaries have ever chiag. and never have they rrliui|uish- ed the full conviction, that their claims for arrears of .Salary, and a restoration lo their Diiginal ineoines were good in equity against the Governnwnt, on whose faith they had relied, a;id whose inaoility to pay their full Salaries, had subjected them to an annual loss of JEot Sa. 'Jd. Clurreucy. For the reduL'tioii in theii incomes was not merely from iii'uo Sterling to £170 Sterling; but they suli'ered the furlhcr lo.vs of the diU'erence between £30) British n"^^^' ^/Z., £170 Provincial Sterling. Tiu clams ot'the o d.-r Cle,-gy are, Hilwi^Wy for £i > British Sterlinga yi'"'/ fr'o'm^^'^^^^f ^^^ July 1st, 1831*, to July 1st Isaff, and to be pla ;ed "'r the future on their ori,inil Salary of £2 '0 Sterling. ^ .T^.a. r /T From the preceding stat'>ment it is appari>ut that there are three general classf:-. of ehiimants, comprising in all about twenty-five, and they ask in tin lirst i;i-ita;iei; fjr an opiioituiity of e-.tablisliing their respective claims before a Committee of your Honorable House, upon whose Report if favourable, as thiy trust it will be, they will expect from the justice of the House that redress, to which they conceive that they are justly entitled. They feel it moreover the r duty to state that there are several Widows and Children of Clergymen deceased, who were on the Society's list of .Missionaries piior to 1s:j3, who will also be entitled t ■ claim arrears, for longer or shorter periods from that date, to the ])eriod of their husbands' deaths respectively ;tl'.e number of these is not ex- actly known to the undersignec:, but their cases cannot be many, nor the sums claimed by them of any larsio amount- It would be tedious to rditethe various efforts, which at successive periods, the Fetitioncrs have mile for the recovery of their just rights, suifice it to remarU, hat while they were preparing to renew their applications, the subject of the Clerjiy Ilescrves was again brought bi.fore the Imperial Parliament, the esult of wliich was the pass- ing of thelate Imperial Act, in wiiich express reservati n\ was made of the rights of existing incumbents, and especial- ly where the faith of the Crown was concerned. ::ow the ufldersignod trust, tUut it is api)aront from the preceding statements, and the documents referred to, that the faith of too Crown was ori;;inally pledged to the Missionaries ; that the Imperial Government admitted the justice of their claims, and only pleaded their inability, from the Colo- nial resources at their commar.d, to make good the full a nount of their Salaries. The petitioners therefore feel, that their claims justly come v ithiu the Spirit of the reservation of rights made in the ! >te Imperial Act, and there- fore they pray the Legislatuio to give to their claims that favourable consideration to which they believe that they are justly entitled. HENRY PATTON, B. CRONYN, WM. McMUIiRAY. Quebec, 18th October, 1854. 1^ C^ C^ iiC/ /