desirable to grant unto the said Corporation full power and control to sell, dispose of, and convey, whether by mortgage or by absolute sale, all and singular the said lands and premises, and to reinvest the proceeds thereof in the purchase of other land, and in the erection of a Cathedral Church for the use of the Roman Catholic congregation of the City of Saint John ;

Be it therefore enacted, &c.--1. The said Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation for the Diocese of New Brunswick, and successors, be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to sell, dispose of, mortgage, and convey the said land and premises, with the apurtenances, either absolutely or conditionally, in one lot or in separate parcels, in such manner, and under and subject to such conditions, covenants, and agreements, as by the said Corporation and successors may be deemed necessary and proper, and thereupon to make good, legal, and sufficient conveyances of the same, by and under the seal of the said Corporation; and the respective purchasers and mortgagees thereof shall not be bound to see to the application of the purchase moneys therefor.

2. And whereas it appears it would tend much to the benefit of the Roman Catholic inhabitants of the City and County of Saint John, if the said Corporation were authorized and empowered from time to time, by and with the advice of the Vicar General or senior Clergyman of the Diocese for the time being, to mortgage to the extent of one third part of their estimated value, any lands hereafter to be purchased or otherwise acquired by the said Corporation in the said City and County, and to apply the proceeds thereof for the general use and uses, eleemosynary, ecclesiastical, or educational, as occasion may require, of the Church of Rome in the said City and County;-It therefore shall and may be lawful for the said Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation for the Diocese of New Brunswick, and successors, from time to time, as circumstances may require, to raise moneys on mortgage of any lands and premises hereafter to be purchased or otherwise acquired by the said Corporation within the City and County of Saint John, to an extent not exceeding in the whole one third part of the estimated value of such lands and premises, and thereupon, for the purposes aforesaid, to execute good and legal conveyances of the same, under the seal of the said

Corporation, by and with the approbation of the Vicar General or senior Clergyman of the Diocese for the time being, to be signified by either of them being made a party to such conveyance, and executing and acknowledging the same.

IMPERIAL ACT, 10 George 4, Chapter 7,

Referred to in the Revised Statutes, Chapter 108, page 275.

An Act for the relief of His Majesty's Roman Catholic

Section.

1. Acts repealed.

Subjects.

Section.

22. Military, &c., oaths by.

2. Roman Catholics, when may sit in Par- 23. Other oaths not necessary.

liament.

24. Titles to Sees, when not to assume.
25. Officers, when not to attend what places

of worship.

26. Ecclesiastic officiating, where. Penalty. 27. What Statute not to be repealed.

28. Jesuits, suppression of.

8. What part of Act repealed, and how 29. Coming into Realm, to be banished.

may sit, &c. for Scotland.

9. Priest not to sit in Commons.

10. What offices may hold.

11. Oath of office.

12. What offices may not hold.

13. What not repealed.

14. Of what Corporations may be members. 15. When not to vote as such.

16. What offices not to hold in Church, &c. 17. Benefice held by, who to present.

18. In Established Church, what not to

advise.

19. Corporate oaths.

20. Oaths for other offices.
21. Penalty for not taking oath.

30. If natural born, they may come and be

registered.

31. Licences for others to come, &c., by

whom.

Schedule.

Passed 13th April 1829.

WHEREAS by various Acts of Parliament certain restraints and disabilities are imposed on the Roman Catholic subjects of His Majesty, to which other subjects of His Majesty are not liable: And whereas it is expedient that such restraints and disabilities shall be from henceforth discontinued: And whereas by various Acts certain oaths and certain declarations, commonly called the declaration against transubstantiation and the declaration against transubstantiation and the invocation. of Saints, and the sacrifice of the Mass as practised in the Church of Rome, are or may be required to be taken, made, and subscribed by the subjects of His Majesty as qualifications for sitting and voting in Parliament, and for the enjoyment of certain offices, franchises, and civil rights ;

1. Be it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, That from and after the commencement of this Act all such parts of the said Act as require the said declaration, or either of them, to be made or subscribed by any of His Majesty's subjects, as a qualification for sitting and voting in Parliament, or for the exercise or enjoyment of any office, franchise, or civil right, be and the same are (save as hereinafter provided and excepted) hereby repealed.

2. And be it enacted, That from and after the commencement of this Act, it shall be lawful for any person professing the Roman Catholic Religion, being a Peer, or who shall after the commencement of this Act be returned as a Member of the House of Commons, to sit and vote in either House of Parliament respectively, being in all other respects duly qualified to sit and vote therein, upon taking and subscribing the following oath, instead of the oaths of allegiance, supremacy, and abjuration:

"I, A. B. do sincerely promise and swear, that I will be faithful, and bear true allegiance to His Majesty King George the Fourth, and will defend him to the utmost of my power against all conspiracies and attempts whatever which shall be made against his Person, Crown, or Dignity; and I will do my utmost endeavour to disclose and make known to His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, all treasons and traitorous conspiracies which may be formed against him or them; and I do faithfully promise to maintain, support, and defend, to the utmost of my power, the succession of the Crown, which succession by an Act intituled An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject, is and stands limited to the Princess Sophia, Electress of Hanover, and the heirs of her body being Protestants, hereby utterly renouncing and abjuring any obedience or allegiance unto any other person claiming or pretending a right to the Crown of this Realm; and I do further declare, that it is not an article of my Faith, and that I do renounce, reject, and abjure the opinion, that Princes excommunicated or deprived by the Pope, or any other authority of the See of Rome, may be deposed or murdered by

their subjects or by any person whatsoever; and I do declare, that I do not believe that the Pope of Rome or any other Foreign Prince, Prelate, Person, State, or Potentate, hath or ought to have any temporal or civil jurisdiction, power, superiority, or pre-eminence, directly or indirectly, within this Realm. I do swear, that I will defend to the utmost of my power, the settlement of property within this Realm as established by the Laws; and I do hereby disclaim, disavow, and solemnly abjure any intention to subvert the present Church Establishment as settled by Law within this Realm; and I do solemnly swear, that I never will exercise any privilege to which I am or may become entitled to disturb or weaken the Protestant Religion or Protestant Government in the United Kingdom; and I do solemnly, in the presence of God, profess, testify, and declare, that I do inake this declaration, and every part thereof, in the plain and ordinary sense of the words of this oath, without any evasion, equivocation, or mental reservation whatsoever.-So help me God."

3. And be it further enacted, That wherever in the oath hereby appointed and set forth, the name of His present Majesty is expressed or referred to, the name of the Sovereign of this Kingdom for the time being, by virtue of the Act for the further limitation of the Crown and better securing the rights and liberties of the subject, shall be substituted from time to time with proper words of reference thereto.

4. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That no Peer professing the Roman Catholic Religion, and no person professing the Roman Catholic Religion who shall be returned a Member of the House of Commons after the commencement of this Act, shall be capable of sitting or voting in either House of Parliament respectively, unless he shall first take and subscribe the oath hereinbefore appointed and set forth before the same persons, at the same times and places, and in the same manner as the oaths and the declaration now required by law are respectively directed to be taken, made, and subscribed; and that any such person professing the Roman Catholic Religion, who shall sit or vote in either House of Parliament without having first taken and subscribed in the manner aforesaid, the oath in this Act appointed and set forth, shall be subject to the same penalties, forfeitures, and disabilities, and the offence of so

sitting or voting shall be followed and attended by and with the same consequences as are by law enacted and provided in the case of persons sitting or voting in either House of Parliament respectively, without the taking, making, and subscribing the oaths and the declaration now required by law.

5. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for persons professing the Roman Catholic Religion to vote at elections of Members to serve in Parliament for England and for Ireland, and also to vote at the elections of Representative Peers of Scotland and of Ireland, and to be elected such Representative Peers, being in all other respects duly qualified, upon taking and subscribing the oath hereinbefore appointed and set forth, instead of the oaths of allegiance, supremacy, and abjuration, and instead of the declaration now by law required, and instead also of such other oath or oaths as are now by law required to be taken by any of His Majesty's subjects professing the Roman Catholic Religion, and upon taking also such other oath or oaths as may now be lawfully tendered to any person offering to vote at such elections.

6. And be it further enacted, That the oath hereinbefore appointed and set forth shall be administered to His Majesty's subjects professing the Roman Catholic Religion, for the purpose of enabling them to vote in any of the cases aforesaid, in the same manner, at the same time, and by the same officers or other persons as the oaths for which it is hereby substituted are or may be now by law administered; and that in all cases in which a certificate of the taking, making, or subscribing of any of the oaths or of the declaration now required by law is directed to be given, a like certificate of the taking or subscribing of the oath hereby appointed and set forth shall be given by the same officer or other person, and in the same manner as the certificate now required by law is directed to be given, and shall be of the like force and effect.

7. And be it further enacted, That in all cases where the persons now authorized by law to administer the oaths of allegiance, supremacy, and abjuration to persons voting at elections, are themselves required to take an oath previous to their administering such oaths, they shall, in addition to the oath now by them taken, take an oath for the duly administering the oath hereby appointed and set forth, and for the duly granting certificates of the same.