Religious Liberty
A contemporary remarks that a great deal of twaddle about political and religious liberty is often talked, but the n»embers of the House of Representatives have so little of the spirit of what is talked that, they have decided to incorporate i.i th ■>. Police Offences Act two obsolete provisions from the notorious " Charles If, Act," in reference to Sunday employments and pastimes. The Ju-ipes who callated ttie causes of the Police Offences Act almo.st apologised tor including- the clauses referred to, ami in their introductory statement affixed to the measure used the following words ; — " It will be tor the Assemi) ly to determine whether . . .the Sunday Trading Acts of Charles I. and 11. should be repealed." The House has determiueii, appnren'ly, the Act shall not be repealed " Perhaps the Government will now stop their Sunday trains and their Sunday excursions, and make it incumbent upon the captains of vessels to tie their crafts up to trees on Sundays. They might also pass another Act providing- for the necessary trees, in the case of vessels too far from the coast lo reach a tree on terra firm a.
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Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 66, 13 November 1884, Page 3
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189Religious Liberty Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 66, 13 November 1884, Page 3
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