ANSWER.
It passes my skill to find out the defects of this method. If the Governor
would give the parishes warning to present in a reasonable time, and, in
case of failure, to make use of the lapse, it would remedy the precariousness
of the clergy as well as the other, and would have this advantage,—
that it would be much more easily applied, and a minister would have more
of the love of his parishioners; whereas, the other way will involve him
in a lawsuit to defend his title; and if we should at any time have a
Governor that has little regard to the Church or religion, he may keep the
parish void as long as he pleases,—there being no lapse ever incurred by
that scheme.
