Excerpt from On the Intention of the British Government to Unite the Provinces of British North America: And a Review of Some Events Which Took Place During the Last Session of the Provincial Parliament As it is, one branch of the Legislature has secularized all of these Reserves, absolutely designed for that pious pur pose, without providing for such congregations or bodies of people, who may be hereafter found totally unable to provide Clergy or places of worship for themselves - namely, poor emigrants, coming to the Province; and, as to one miserable argument I have heard on the subject, namely, that there was no direct grant, i say, as there was a direct and positive Reserve of one-seventh of the lands for the purpose of aid ing the Protestant Churches, it superseded the necessity of any Grant from the then owner of the lands, namely, the Crown of G. B. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.