Philip ceded to the Papacy the Comtat Venaissin. The Second Ecumenical Council met at Lyons, beginning on 1 May 1274 for the purpose of considering the East-West Schism, the condition of the Holy Land, and the abuses of the Catholic Church. Council objectives His main objective as pope was to convene the council, and he had a programme for that council: Reconciliation with the Orthodox Church to end the schism between the East and West. Preparation of a new crusade and donations of a tithe of all churches for it. Establishment of measures to end abuses in the church. Regulation of papal elections through the constitution "Ubi periculum maius". The Pope's interests were not doctrinal in nature, but disciplinary. In connection with the financing of the Crusade, Pope Gregory imposed on all clerics a six-year long tax of 10% of their income. This was a considerable increase in the tax rate, which, on previous occasions had been for three years, at a rate of 5%. 26 permanent tax districts were established, each having a Collector and a Sub-Collector. His Constitution with respect to conclaves legislated a number of important points: that a meeting for the election of a pope should be held at a suitable place, where the Pope and his Curia were residing when the Pope died; if they were at a villa, or a country village, or a town, they should proceed to the nearest city in the diocese (unless it was under an interdict). that a meeting for the election of a pope should not take place until the space of at least ten days had intervened; that all cardinals who were absent from the Conclave should have no right to cast a vote; that not only absent cardinals, but also men of every order and condition, are eligible to be created the Roman pontiff; that, at the conclusion of the Novendiales, and the Mass of the Holy Spirit sung on the tenth day, all the cardinals who are present should be enclosed in the palace where the Pope died; along with two or, if they are ill, three or four servants; none may enter or leave, except on account of illness. There should be no interior walls, but each cardinal's quarters should be separated from the rest by cloth drapes, and they should live in common. that the place of the conclave and its entries should