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INTRODUCTION. 
for the augmentation of pensions to poor clergy- 
men’s widows. Their salaries are various ; a few 
exceed a hundred rix-dollars per annum, but the 
greater number do not produce an income of 
more than thirty or forty rix-dollars, and some 
do not exceed twelve, ten, or even five. It must 
be remembered, however, that most of the clergy 
occupy little farms, and this alone makes the con¬ 
dition of the greater part of them tolerable. 
To give a more correct idea of the revenues 
of the clergy of Iceland, not only of the regular 
salaries which they receive from the crown, 
but also of such pensions as are appropriated 
to superannuated and poor priests and widows, 
I subjoin the following table of expenditure; 
only premising that the number of clergymen 
is not to be estimated by that of the livings here 
mentioned ; for, curates included, I think they 
amount to between three and four hundred. 
1 Osterskaptefields Provstie .... 
5 Livings 
Rdr. 
113 
Sk. 
20 
2 Vesterskapteflelds Provstie .... 
7 Ditto 
164 
40 
3 Rangervalle and Westmannoe ^ 
13 Ditto 
736 
72 
Provstie ... S 
4 Arnaes Provstie. 
16 Ditto 
436 
34 
5 Guldbringue and Kiose Provstie 
9 Ditto 
349 
43 
6 Borgafiord Provstie.. 
6 Ditto 
216 
2S 
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