Historical Notes On the Constitutions of Connecticut 1639 1818 Particularly On
Historical Notes On the Constitutions of Connecticut 1639 1818 Particularly On
Trumbull James Hammond
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" A proviso assured to societies and churches which " soberly differ or dis- sent " from the established churches, and which were allowed by law, the right of " exercising worship and discipline in their own way and according to their consciences. " But dissenters were not thereby relieved of their obligations to pay their proportion of town taxes for the support of the established ministry. By a colony law (May, 1697) every town and society was required to provide, annually, for the maintenanc...e of their minister, in accordance with the agreement made at settlement, by a tax levied " on the several inhabitants according to their respective estates. " 4 A minister settled by the major part of the house- Iwldcrs of a town or society was, by a law passed in 1699, to be accounted the lawful minister of such town or society, and the agreement made with him was declared to be binding on " all of such town. " 5 And when in 1708, the general assembly, by an act " for the ease of such as soberly dissent from the way of worship and ministry established by the ancient laws of this government and still continuing, " extended to all qualified dis- senters in the colony, the same liberty and privileges granted by the Toleration Act of William and Mary, it was with the special proviso, that this should not be construed " to the excusing of any person from paying any such minister or town dues as are now or shall be hereafter due from them.
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