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The following Protest was entered on the Journals:
Dissentient—Because we think this bill proceeds upon the alleged expediency of repealing the Sacramental Test, for the
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purpose of substituting as a security for the support of the Established Church, which is an essential part of the constitution of the state, nothing but a Declaration as to corporate offices, which may be made by persons not Protestants, and not even Christians; and because, also, it does not render necessary even such a Declaration to be made by any person accepting offices and places of trust, but leaves it wholly in the power of the Crown to require, or not to require, it to be made by any such persons. (Signed)
| "ELDON, | MALMESBURY, |
| KENYON, | NEWCASTLE, |
| BROWNLOW, | FALMOUTH, |
| WALSINGHAM, | HOWE, |
| BOSTON, | MANSFIELD, |
| BEAUCHAMP, | STANHOPE." |