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payments chargeable to the owner or the holder of registered land,
of which the collecting, however, is left to the general tax-collector.
Most of the rents apart from the tithes, can be commuted at the
option of the municipality by municipal compensation, and thereby
be transferred to the rate-payers in general, which is largely done.
As far as the town clergy are concerned, these fixed sources of
income, other than allowance for house-rent, are of comparatively
minor importance. The uncertain revenues are made up principally
of the fees for the ecclesiastical services (stole-fees), and of
voluntary offerings. For these a minimum rate was formerly fixed as
regards the country, while spontaneity ruled in the towns. By one
of the acts of 1897, it was resolved that no payment at all could
be made for certain of the ecclesiastical services (visitation of the
sick, and communion), nor yet by members of the congregation
for the others (baptism, confirmation, marriages, funerals) when
they were performed in connection with the ordinary services, or
on other days especially appointed by the king. In other respects,
the fees are to be in accordance with regulations made by the
Municipal Council with the approbation of the Ecclesiastical Department.
Three fourths of the decrease thus produced in the revenues were
made up to the clergy out of the public funds of the parish or
municipality in question. The congregations can also resolve that
all payment for the religious services shall be done away with for
the members of the congregation, and replaced by a similar
compensation, which is largely done, especially in the towns. The act
has also given congregations an opportunity of making a similar
resolve with regard to the discontinuance — though in return for
full compensation — of the offerings, which is also done in many
country parishes, and comparatively even more frequently in the
towns, particularly the larger ones. Kr. 6000 is fixed as the
maximum income of priestly offices in towns, without regard
to the income from the official residence or to allowance for
house-rent; [[** sjk bindestrek]] and in the country 4000 kr. The surplus, where it is not
employed for additional religious offices, is to go towards a
salary-fund belonging to every congregation, and to which is also assigned
income in other ways, and of which the proceeds shall serve, among
other things, to gradually assume the compensation obligation
resting upon the municipal funds as explained above. The minimum
income fixed for independent church posts is 2400 kr. without
regard to the income from the official residence or the allowance
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