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And this decisive denial of their claims may be looked upon as an act of repression in duced by the Boston tea episode.

Further, the bill provided for the release of Roman Catholics in Quebec from all the penal restrictions imposed upon their co-religionists in England, gave renewed recognition of the Church s right to collect tithes as of old, and confirmed all branches of the Church, with the exception of the religious orders and communities, in the full possession of their landed interests.

It might here be noted that, with the exception of the Jesuits, none of the orders were ever disturbed in the possession of their lands ; but, strictly speaking, the provisions of the bill afforded no guarantee of this immunity.

English criminal law was estab lished within the province, while in all cases affecting property and civil rights the laws existing therein before the conquest were to be revived.

Express provision was made, how ever, that either or both systems might be modified by ordi nances of the governor in council as occasion might seem to demand.