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Rh certificate, exchangeable, at any time within three years after date, for grants in fee simple, on proof that improvements have been made to the value of £35. The present qoalification is to have attended at least the Infantry 13 parade diills and the Cavalry 8 parade drills; and, should a camp of instruction be formed, at least three days' field service in each year; to have at all times held one's self ready for duty and obtained a certificate of good conduct and efficiency. This force is reported as efficient.

Pensioners also may have lots of 30 acres assigned in the same manner exchangeable for grants in fee simple, after three years, on proof of good conduct, good service in the Force, and such improvements on the land as the Governor may from time to time specify to be necessary and publish in the Government Gazette.

religious establishments in Western Australia, being now independent of the Government, require separate consideration. The information which is given respecting them is derived from the heads of the different churches.

The Government has from the first contributed both in money and land to the Ecclesiastical Institutions of the Colony, and to the schools and charities connected with them. The Church of England was, until 1871, in connection with, and its ministers were chaplains under, the Government, as were also some of those of the Roman Catholic Church.

The amount expended by the Government for Ecclesiastical purposes, was in 1870 £3,540, and in