§ MR. SLOANI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware that there has been a large influx of French conventual houses into Guernsey; and whether a new law has recently been passed by the States of the island rendering them liable to contribute to the parochial taxation; and, if so, whether he will lay a copy upon the Table.
§ MR. AKERS-DOUGLASForeign religious communities have of late settled in Guernsey in numbers which, considering the smallness of the island, may be called large. A law, which received the approval of His Majesty in Council in May last, has been passed to regulate the acquisition of real property in Guernsey by all aliens and foreign societies, and to ensure the payment by foreign societies in the island of their proper share of parochial taxation. This latter provision was rendered necessary by a defect in the Insular law which made it difficult to obtain from foreign associations their proper contribution to parochial taxation on personal property. I shall be happy to lay a copy of the law on the Table if the hon. Member so desires.