An Act for granting a Salary to the Reverend Antony O’Hannan, Roman Catholic Clergyman in this Government.

WHEREAS many of the inhabitants of this colony, particularly a great por­tion of the slave population, profess the Roman Catholic religion, and it would consequently tend much to the benefit of this community, as well as to the good government of the slaves, if the permanent residence of a respectable clergyman or [33] priest, as rector of the Roman Catholic church in this government, was insured to such said classes of the community; and whereas, in furtherance of such said object, the Reverend Antony O’Hannan has been appointed to the cure or rec­tory of the said church; and it has been considered proper and necessary, in order to enhance the respectability of such said situation, that some suitable and suffi­cient stipend or salary should be assigned for the due support thereof, from the public funds of this colony: to meet which end

[Clause 1.] Be it enacted, by his Excellency the Governor, the Council and Assembly of the Island of Grenada and its dependencies, and it is hereby enacted and ordained, by authority of the same, that a stipend or salary at and after the rate of five hun­dred pounds currency per annum, shall be paid to the Reverend Antony O’Hannan of the Roman Catholic church in this government, in equal half-yearly pay­ments, to commence upon the day of the date of his license, and to continue during his residence in and officiating as Roman Catholic clergyman of the government aforesaid.

[Clause 2.] And be it enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that the said salary or stipend shall be included in the Bill of Supply of each and every year during the continu­ance of this Act, and shall be made payable by the annual Money Bill, in the same manner as other salaries are included and made payable by the same; and the public treasurer is hereby authorized and directed to appropriate and pay in manner hereinbefore provided, or in such parts and proportion as may become due, the said salary or stipend.

[Clause 3.] And be it enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that during the continuance of this Act, the said Reverend Antony O’Hannan shall not take or accept, directly or in­directly either by himself or others, from any slave or slaves within this govern­ment, any fee, payment or remuneration whatsoever for any baptismal, marriage or burial rites, to be by him performed, nor for any other sacrament or matter or thing to be administered or done in his spiritual capacity aforesaid, to and for such slave or slaves; and he, the said Reverend Antony O’Hannan, shall not refuse on such account to administer and perform all such sacramental and other rites to and for the slave or slaves aforesaid.

Passed the Assembly, this 18th day of November 1828.

(signed) John Ch. Ker, Clerk of Assembly.

Passed the Council, this 20th day of November 1828. 

(signed) W. A. Horne, Acting Clerk of Council.

Dated at the town of Saint George, in the Island of Grenada aforesaid, this 24th day of November, in the year of our Lord 1828, and of His Majesty’s reign the ninth.

(signed) Dan. Gibbs, Speaker.

Grenada:— Assented to by His Excellency the Governor and Commander-in- Chief, this 24th day of November, in the year of our Lord 1828, and of His Majesty’s reign the ninth.

(signed) W. A. Horne, Acting Clerk of Council.

Duly published in the town of Saint George, this 24th day of November, in the year of our Lord 1828, and in the ninth year of His Majesty’s reign.

(signed) John Douglas, Acting P. M. G.

(signed) JAMES (L.M.S.) CAMPBELL.