STATUTES, PROCLAMATIONS, RULES, ORDERS, ETC. 897 



III. Provided always, and be it enacted, That nothing in this Act 

 contained shall extend, or be construed to extend, to make void, or to 

 vary or alter any right, title, or possession, derived under any grant, 

 conveyance, or otherwise howsoever, of or to any lands within the 

 said province, or the provinces thereto adjoining; but that the same 

 shall remain and be in force, and have effect, as if this Act had never 

 been made. 



" IV. And whereas the Provisions, made by the said Proclamation, 

 in respect to the Civil Government of the said Province of Quebec, 

 and the Powers and Authorities given to the Governor and other 

 Civil Officers of the said Province, by the Grants and Commis- 

 536 sions issued in consequence thereof, have been found, upon 

 Experience, to be inapplicable to the State and Circumstances 

 of the said Province, the Inhabitants whereof amounted, at the con- 

 quest, to above sixty-five thousand persons professing the Eeligion of 

 the Church of Rome, and enjoying an established Form of Constitu- 

 tion and System of Laws, by which their Persons and Property had 

 been protected, governed, and ordered, f cr a long Series of Years, from 

 the first Establishment of the said Province of Canada;" be it there- 

 fore further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the said Proc- 

 lamation, so far as the same relates to the said Province of Quebec, 

 and the Commission under the Authority whereof the Government of 

 the said Province is at present administered, and all and every the 

 Ordinance and Ordinances made by the Governor and Council of 

 Quebec for the Time being, relative to the Civil Government and 

 Administration of Justice in the said Province, and all Commissions 

 to Judges and other Officers thereof, be, and the same are hereby re- 

 voked, annulled, and made void, from and after the first Day of May, 

 one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five. 



" V. And, for the more perfect Security and Ease of the Minds of 

 the Inhabitants of the said Province," it is hereby declared, That His 

 Majesty's Subjects, professing the Religion of the Church of Rome 

 of and in the said Province of Quebec, may have, hold, and enjoy, 

 the free Exercise of the Religion of the Church of Rome, subject to 

 the King's Supremacy, declared and established by an Act, made in 

 the first Year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth* over all the Domin- 

 ions and Countries which then did, or thereafter should belong, to 

 the Imperial Crown of this Realm ; and that the Clergy of the said 

 Church may hold, receive, and enjoy, their accustomed Dues and 

 Rights, with respect to such Persons only as shall profess the said 

 Religion. 



VI. Provided nevertheless, That it shall be lawful for his Majesty, 

 his Heirs or Successors, to make such Provision out of the rest of the 

 said accustomed Dues and Rights, for the Encouragement of the 

 Protestant Religion, and for the Maintenance and Support of a 

 Protestant Clergy within the said Province, as he or they shall, from 

 Time to Time, think necessary and expedient. 



VII. Provided always, and be it enacted, that no Person, profess- 

 ing the Religion of the Church of Rome, and residing in the said 

 Province, shall be obliged to take the Oath required by the said 

 Statute passed in the first Year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, or 

 any other Oaths substituted by any other Act in the Place thereof; 

 but that every such Person who, by the said Statute, is required to 



