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yearly payments, and also £ 500 a year to the Treasurer for
the time being of Queen's College, to be employed as heretofore in
the payment of Professors, being Ministers of the Church."

"That the clause of this section relative to the allowance
to Queen's College was deliberately passed the following extract
from the Minutes of the proceedings of the same Synod (page 35)
shows: "It was moved by W. Snodgras, Seconded by John McMurchy,
that instead of the words £ 500 a year to the Treasurer for the
time being of Queen's College to be employed as heretofore in the pay-
ment of Professors, being Ministers of the Church," the words "That
Professors of the Faculties of Arts and Theology in Queen's College,
being Ministers, shall rank as beneficiaries on the Temporalities
fund, according as they may belong to one or other of the several class-
es of Ministers provided for by the By-Laws and former resolutions
of Synod on the subject" which motion was lost by a vote of 43
to 6."

"In short the Board of Trustees feel assured that the
Temporalities Board will see from the above statement, that the
arrangement made with the consent of the Government by the
original committee by whom the commutation settlement was
effected, and by the By-Laws of the Temporalities
Board sanctioned by the Synod, is simply this, that

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