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sent out. Since the last report 34 loans have 

 been made a total of 270. Seventeen loans 

 have been paid off and the mortgages satisfied, 

 the sum of $20,838 having been repaid to the 

 fund. The aggregate amount that has once 

 been loaned and has been returned to the fund 

 now exceeds $131,000; over 250 churches have 

 been aided, and not a dollar has been lost. The 

 interest has been paid regularly and the princi- 

 pal returned as fast as could be expected. 



Religious Orders. To the religious orders 

 for men, enumerated last year, has been added 

 the Community of the Brothers of the Church, 

 founded in New York in 1894, a community for 

 laymen dependent for its support upon volun- 

 tary offerings, whose object is to provide a place 

 in the Church where devout laymen may live 

 the religious life in community and do practical 

 mission work among children, boys, and young 

 men on Church lines. To the list of sisterhoods 

 should be added : Sisters of the Church, New 

 York city, founded in London in 1870, estab- 

 lished in New York in 1894 ; Sisters of the Or- 



der of the Holy Resurrection, Atlanta, Ga., 

 founded in 1893; Sisterhood of St. Joseph of 

 Nazareth, incorporated in 1892 ; Sisters of the 

 Order of Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, 

 New York ; and Sisters of the Order of the Good 

 Shepherd, in the diocese of California. 



Miscellaneous. Three of the Church's bish- 

 ops have died during the Church year. These 

 are: Theodore Benedict Lyman, fourth Bishop 

 of North Carolina : John Adams Paddock, first 

 Bishop of Olympia; and Horatio Southgate, 

 sometime Bishop for the Dominions and Depend- 

 encies of the Sultan of Turkey. The death of 

 60 clergymen is also reported. The deposition 

 of 1 presbyter was remitted and terminated, and 

 he was restored to the ministry, from which 19 

 priests were deposed during the year. Arthur 

 Crawshay Alliston Hall was consecrated Bishop 

 of Vermont, and John Brockenbrough Newton 

 was consecrated Assistant Bishop of Virginia, 

 Bishop Randolph being elected to the bishopric 

 of North Carolina. The Bishop of Western Col- 

 orado was translated to the bishopric of Olympia. 



Q 



QUEBEC, a province of the Dominion of 

 Canada; area, about 193,000 square miles; popu- 

 lation in 1891, 1,488,586. Capital, Quebec, 



Legislature. The Legislative Assembly met 

 in Quebec, Nov. 10, 1893, and was prorogued 

 Jan. 9, 1894. The Executive Council consisted 

 of the following: Hon. L. 0. Taillon, Premier 

 and President of the Council; Hon. L. Beau- 

 bien, Commissioner of Agriculture ; Hon. E. J. 

 Flynn, Commissioner of Crown Lands ; Hon. J. 

 Hall, Treasurer; Hon. G. A. Nantel, Commis- 

 sioner of Public Works; Hon. L. P. Pelletier, 

 Provincial Secretary; Hon. T. C. Casgrain, At- 

 torney-General ; and the Hons. John Macintosh 

 and Thomas Chapais, Members of Council with- 

 out portfolios. Hon. P. E. Leblanc was Speaker 

 of the Legislative Assembly. 



Hon. Joseph Adolph Chapleau, Lieutenant- 

 Governor, formally opened the House with the 

 usual address. In it he expressed regret that 

 the business depression so prevalent in other 

 countries was also affecting adversely so many 

 interests in the province, but said the people 

 generally were prosperous. He commended the 

 efforts made by the provincial Government to 

 develop the agricultural interests of the prov- 

 ince. He regretted that the expenditures for 

 the public service continued to be in excess of 

 the revenue, but hoped that a wise fiscal policy 

 and retrenchments in various branches of the 

 service would shortly put an end to these annual 

 deficits. 



The most important act of the Legislature, at 

 least so far as revenue is concerned, was the 

 change made in the license law, still further re- 

 ducing the number of hotel and restaurant li- 

 censes. A reduction was made in the tax on 

 the transfer of real estate. The following 

 amounts were granted for the various branches 

 of the public service and for interest on the pro- 

 vincial debt for the fiscal year 1894-'95: Public 

 debt, $1,537,562; legislation, $199,788; civil 

 government, $253,877: administration of jus- 

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tice, etc., $591,540; public instruction, etc., 

 $383,760; agriculture, immigration, and colo- 

 nization, $281,300; public works and buildings 

 ordinary $106,176, extraordinary $146,877; 

 benevolent institutions, including insane asy- 

 lums, $323,027; Sunday services, $340,169; 

 total, $4,164,186. 



Finances. The provincial expenditures for 

 the year ending June 30, 1894, amounted to 

 $4.550,629.50, and the receipts to $4,320,427.22, 

 showing a deficit of $230,202.28. The expendi- 

 ture does not include railway subsidies and 

 amounts disbursed in repayment of loans. The 

 railway subsidies paid during the year amounted 

 to $975,426.69. Nor does the statement of re- 

 ceipts include moneys received for loans. 



The gross funded debt of the province on 

 June 30, 1894, was $28,196,754.33, and the sink- 

 ing fund invested $9,994,000. leaving a net debt 

 of $18,202,754.33. The unfunded debt amounted 

 to $2,018,518.12. In order to meet loans and 

 other obligations incurred by the Mercier Gov- 

 ernment and for needs of the public service, two 

 loans were negotiated in 1894. The first, of 

 $2,920,000. was made in London, in March, at 4 

 per cent. The price obtained was 94 net, but the 

 province pays | of 1 per cent, on the coupons and 

 | of 1 per cent, on the capital. The second loan 

 was negotiated in Paris, for 27,632,000 francs, 

 not redeemable before 1905, and bearing interest 

 at 3 per cent. The price obtained was 77 net. 



Fisheries. There was a slight falling off in 

 the catch for the province last year, compared 

 with the year before. On the coast of Labrador 

 the cod fishing was good, as also the salmon 

 fishing generally. Around the island of Anti- 

 costi cod fishing was much better than in the 

 preceding year, herring fishing middling, and 

 lobster fishing poor. At Magdalen Islands the 

 cod fishery was average, mackerel fishing above 

 the average, herring and lobster fisheries good. 

 From Ste. Anne des Monts to Gaspe the cod 

 fishery was better than the year before, the 



