266 . Doctor Jenkins and Mr. Walker, the only resident clergymen on Prince Edward Island to meet the requirements of the situation. So urgent appeals were made to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel for further assistance, which were favourably received and responded to as the condition of the Society's funds permitted.

On January 9, 1831, the Rev. Abraham V. G. Wiggins, A. B., who had just arrived to assume charge of St. Eleanor’s parish, preached at St. Paul’s. Mr. Walker had a few months previous to this resigned his charge. It fell to Mr. Wiggnis to hold his first service in the new church, just com- pleted. To enable the parishioners there to elect a Vestry and secure corporate rights, 21 Geo. III, Cap. 10, which was confined in its scope to the parish of Charlotte, was re- pealed, and a general act covering the whole Island passed in lieu of it (3 William 4, Cap. 20).

This, with other enactments, empowered the meeting of the congregation held on

____,__ NOTE NINE Continued. To Murray Harbour.

To Haydens... miles

To Samples ..... “

To Cambridge’s Mills... “ To Murray Harbour Meeting

House .............................................................. 6 “

38 miles

To Bedeque and South Side.

Gardiners Bedeque.. To Wesleyan Meeting...

To Georgetown. To Charlottetown Ferry... To Tea Hill To Jenkins To Burke To Hayden To Kearneys..

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miles

NOTE TEN At the Whitsuntide meeting of 1834 the congre- gation of St. Paul's exercised for the first time its right under this act. The salaries of the church oili- cers as then fixed were: The clerk's 15 pounds: the organist, 10 pounds; the sexton, 12 pounds.

PAST AND PRESENT OF

Tuesday of Whitsuntide week to elect and appoint the clerk, organist, sexton, badle, verger and other officers and to fix the rate of salary to be paid each. (Note 10).

In the year 1835 His Majesty -(Wil- liam IV) by a dispatch from the Right Hon. Thomas Spring Rice, Principal Sec- retary of State for the Colonial Department, addressed to the Lieutenant Governor, or- dered the sale of such of the Glebe and School lands as had not been appropriated for use. At the original settlement in 1767, in each township one hundred acres were reserved to His Majesty for the site of a church and thirty acres for a schoolmaster. In certain townships glebes had been sur- veyed and taken possession of by the parish- ioners but in the majority of cases the par- ishes had never been supplied with ministra- tions. and no demand existed for them; nothing had been done. The rector of Charlotte had been appointed conservator of glebe and school lands for the counties of

Queens and Kings and the rector of St.

To East Point. To Crokers To Turn Go To Hickey's.. To Agins ..........

To Tracadie Cross Road To Lobbans ................................ To St. Andrew's Chapel To Champions ..................... To Worrel's Mills St. To Morrell Bridge To Midgell ...... To McKenzie To St. Margaret’s Chapel.

To Bay Fortune. To MacKenzies To McDonalds... To Bay Fortun .

To Wood Islands.

To Cherry Valley....... miles To Nelson’s Chiney... " To Orwell Ferry. " To New Town. " To H To us To as To u 30% miles

tor’s fees (or marriage. it b license. 10s.. it by banns, 5s.; for a funeral at the c urch. 10s.; at the grave- yard. only ‘Is. 6d. Clerk's tees for funeral, marriage

The rec-or christening, 2s. 6d.