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That is, that the land set apart by the Constitutional Act of 1791 'for the support and maintenance of a Protestant Clergy, amounting to one-seventh of all the lands granted, should be taken over by the Government and thrown open for settlement. Globe, 1851. For further instances see Globe, February 9 and December 14, 1853; February 9, 18, 22 and November 5, 1856; August 7 and December 23, 1857.
The most expensive article of living in Sydney is house-rent, which appears to be enormously high, so that 100l. a year is considered only a moderate charge for an unfurnished house, with ordinary conveniences; and out of the salary allowed by government to the Bishop of Australia, upwards of one-seventh part is expended in rent alone.
But increasing prosperity caused the rise of slave importations to an average of about one hundred a year in the first quarter of the eighteenth century; and in spite of the rapid increase of the whites during the rest of the colonial period the proportion of the negroes was steadily maintained at about one-seventh of the whole.
In many provinces the density of population exceeds 200 per square mile, or greater than that of any of the United States, except Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The total area of the Philippines is about the same as that of Japan, but its civilized population is only one-seventh. All the races are of the Malay type.
The Crown gave up all taxation except commercial duties, which were to be applied solely for the benefit of the provinces. Lands outside the seigneuries were to be in free and common socage, while seigneurial tenure itself could be converted into freehold on petition. One-seventh of the Crown lands was reserved for the endowment of the Church of England.
Sir, it will be the crime of the century if now, having the power, as we clearly have, we lack the nerve to do the work that is given us to do. "Let me say to my Republican friends, you are too late. You have gone too far to recede now. Four million people, one-seventh of your whole population, you have set free. Will you start back appalled at the enchantment your own wand has called up?
The average diameter of the pupil itself is one-fifth of an inch, or about seven times as great as the depression of the sea-horizon in the case supposed. It would require very close observation and a good eye to determine whether a horizontal line seen on either side of the head were on the level of the centres of the eye-pupils, or lower by about one-seventh of the breadth of either pupil.
"Just think," she said, "if a woman lives seventy years, and the washing is done once a week, you might say she spent one-seventh of her life or ten whole years at the meanest hardest work that was ever invented " "They don't do the washing when they're children," said Helen. "No, but they hate it just as much.
Australia, New Zealand and even South Africa, so lately the scene of a devastating war each gave money, while Canada gave none. New Zealand, with only one-seventh of Canada's population, gave a Dreadnought, while Canada gave none. Australia had a battle-worthy squadron of her own but Canada had nothing but a mere flotilla.
His addition of one-seventh to the ordinary price of copper, so that his money-changers gave only 180 ounces of that metal, instead of 210, for one-sixth of an ounce of gold, seems rather to have been the result of ignorance than of fraud and avarice; since he did not alter the gold coin, in which alone all public and private payments were made.
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