BENCH AND BAR
AND FAMILY PRAYERS.
The ajgument in a case before the Court was as, to whether a certain building in Miramax, admittedly not the property of t-ho Church, but used for the celebration of religious services, ought to pay rates to tho Miramax Borough. Mr. P. J. O'Eegan argued thliberalise of the fact that religious services were hold there, Hie building' was. rightly exempted from payment of rates.
Mr. T. Neavo, for tho Miramar Borough, suggested that if Mr. O'Regan's contention was sound, then every man who hold family prayers in his house could ask to have his house exempt from rates. This might prove to bo a very easy way of evading taxation. The Chief Justice, who was hearing tbc case; said that he did not know whether many yeople had family prayors nowadays, but in his youth it was a- vary common practice for tho head of the house to conduct family prayer's. Mr. Neave: Yes, Your Honour. My father was one of those men, "and 1 remember that one of his stock prayers was 'for the increasing wisdom of our Judges and Magistrates.'"
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2622, 18 November 1915, Page 6
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188BENCH AND BAR Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2622, 18 November 1915, Page 6
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