Voices of the People

Nova Scotia House of Assembly Petitions and Correspondence

1 April 1812

Resolution of the committee of the House respecting quit rents, "that as the Inhabitants of this Colony are composed of Persons professing various religious Sentiments all of whom since the first Settlement of this Province have been exempt from yielding any support to the Church of England, except such as profess to be Members of that Church, the House of Assembly anxiously desirous of preserving harmony among all denominations of Christians cannot agree to make provision for the Clergy of the Church of England out of the Public Treasury or in any way raise money by Taxes on other classes of Christians for Support of that Church." (As in Journal p. 117)

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 18 number 105