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New Zealand Tablet, Volume IV, Issue 172, 14 July 1876, Page 15

A return has just been furnished by the Prussian Ministry of ecclesiastical affairs of the amounts withdrawn from the Catholic bishops, clergy, etc., in virtue of the confiscation law of the 22nd of April, 1875. They come uuder three heads, namely — 1. Bishoprics and institutions appertaining to them. 2. Salaries, etc., for Catholic clergymen. 3. Improvement of the worldly condition of clergymen and teachers. The annual amount withdrawn from Catholics under these heads are (1) £58,422 8s; (2) £59,726 16s; (3) £17,400 3s; or, altogether, £135,478 7s.