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————______ ee ETE, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, MONDAY, MAY 30, 1859. No. 47.

Provincial Parliament,

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

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SUMMARY OF PROCEEDINGS.

Saturpay, May 7, 1859. SCHOOL VISITORS’ REPORTS.

Hon. CoLONBL @wasey laid before the House the annual Report of the Visitors of Seivols.

In doing so, His Honor said, I think it isnot necessary that the whole of the Reports should now be read to the Louse. They are 30 voluminous get the reading of them at once would engross an unreasonable portion of your Honors’ time and attention ; but as they will be laid upon the Table. your — individually, will have opportunities to look into or

use them. as it may best suit your convenience to do so. I will, however, with your Honors’ permission read the eom- munication from the Board of Education which they have

seut up to us with the Visitors’ Reports. His Honor then read as follows : —

Boarp or EDUCATION, Prince Epwarp Istanp, 2nd May, 1859.

The Board of Education in the exercise of the duty assizned it, by the Act 15 Vic. Cap. 15, transmits to the Legislature the tollowing extracts of the reports of the School Visitors up to the present date. In revising the report marked No. 2, the Board deems it its duty to sabmit the yiews which the experi- ence, more especially of the past year, has led it to entertain on the very important subject of school attendance, as affeeting slike the interests of the rising generation, the remuneration of Teachers, and the success and stability of the whole system of public instruction in the tree sct ools of the Colony :—

_ Although the average daily attendance required by the Act is sufficiently low, being only ere half the minimum number of pupils of school age necessary to form a District, and

resource, applied to the Legislature for the balance of the £25. This affords a good opportunity of finally settling the matter. A simple resolution will be sufficient to declare whether the principles which have hitherto guided the Board are sound or whether the recent decision of the majority of the members as expressed, and the above resolution, meets the concurrence of the Legislature. In coming to a decision on this yexod | question, it should be borne in mind, that the discretionary | power, In certain cases, hitherto exercised, as has been shewn. | with such caution, is still believed by a minority of the members to be essential to the successful working of the Act and that sufficient occasions will not be wanting to vindicate the supremacy of Parliament without converting it into a Court of appeal for settling matters of detail.

A tribunal which condescends not to make itself acquainted bo the factsof th» case, may impress with an idea of its power, it can seldom excite our admiration at the justice of its decisions.

All which is respectfully submitted.

By order of the Board, JOUN McNEILL, Sotretarg.

His Honer, when he had read the following para: |the communication ;— § paragraph of

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‘““A simple Resclution will he sufficient to de clare whether the principles which have hitherto guiled the Board are sound, or whether the recent decision Of t'ho majority of the members, as expressed in the abovs Resolution meets the | concurrence of the Legislature, ’—said ,

with respect to the force ofa “aeve Resolution of the Legisla- ture. On the day on which the Board held a special meeting for the purpose of reviewing the School Visitors’ Reports, | was unable _to take PU'’s ins ihe discharge of that duty ; but having previously m3“e ryselfuequainted with the suggestions, made by one of ths }4te School Visitors’ in his Report, and being also fully awe,re of the views entertained, with respect to them, by thy Majority of the Board with which I eoncurred, I delegated “a¥ voice to two members of that majority who I expected “ror 'd be present atthe nrecting. Mad ‘I myssl! been there , | would hove taken wpon me to explain that if the Free ‘dvcation Act be defective, (as in this and some other pa tier tars I think it is,) ite defeets cannot be remedied exeept

alth ugh he words of the Act are precise, yet that difficulties fave atisca in its administration is shown by the number of petitions now before the Legislature, arising out of questic as concerning average, as well as from the following anal ysis derived from the experience of the past threo years. “Tr “+ principles of interpretation and of administratic:, Ychich guided the Board are deduced from the ‘‘ minutes.’ ”

Ast. In an agricuitural country and where morzoyer the climate is one of extremes, the weekly, and Mont'aly average attendance at school is necessarily very flu~.tua’ fe” This in ordinary cases is sufficiently provided fey pv are anh whieh rosts the average attendance on that of the edrire si: But in the case of removal of the Toache death before the expiretion of the year the average will be above or hel ow tt the season of the year at «hich th Vor a schuol which during “he o-,4. 15, may during the sucer din--

ae al cate i asto ratso % to 20. tnat is 5 above

six months. # from ill-healti or ly or balf yearly term, se standard according to ¢ interruption may occur. atumn has an average of only

; the standard. Ts the Tenchor in such * cate te be paid a proportion of his salary, ar is ke @ go er. tirely Wyrewarded ? This question the Board dagided in tha afirmianes «nd. Deaides the periodic fluctuation just referred to, the averace .3 someti‘mes liable to fall betow the standard from tho prevulence of epidemic or contagious diseases, such as measles, «ma)’.-pox, or scarlet fever. Suppose in such a case, as has more tian once happened, the average falls to 19, or even 18, is the Board to consider its hands tied up, and the Tescher to go untemunerated? Without the concurrence ¢! the Board he cannot abandon his post. For the Board to give its assent would be to aggravate the sufferings of a District already sorely tried, to visit with unmerited punishment those whom the epidemic may have spared! To withhold its assent, on the other band. would be to compel a public servant to remain at histpest without being in a position to pay him. — drd, Suppose the inhabitants of any District Act in strict <n-ormity with the law, in haying the boundaries defined. selecting ‘the site, &c., but a contumacious minority rise up in appovition, chvese a sito for themselves. and in utter «disregard ef the law, build a school-hoase in opposition to that regularly establish. If, in such a case, the average of the District school fall 'selow the standard by a small fraction, is it te be exeluded from all participation in the benefit of the Aet? vy de so, in the opinion of the Board, wonld be to treat alike those whe disregard and those who obey the laws—to perpetuate a feud in the District which would more than neutralise the good effects of the Free Educatiqgn Act, and to hold up to ether Districts an easy method whereby the people at large might bo. deprived ot the blessings of Kducation by the factious opposition of a few. To sustain the lovers of law and order during a temporary depression of the average, must have the contrary effect, and result in the final submission 0} the malcentents. 3 Whenever the defici ney was not owing to any of the causes jast enumorated, the average required by the Act has been strictly insisted on, and as rigidly enforeed, as the imperfect means placed at the disposal of the Board by the Legislature would permit. No means have been left untried to secure @ faithiul record of the daily attendance. The Teacher is required by the regulations to notify the Board whenever the averag of the preceding three months fall below that required by the Act. On the receipt of any such notice the following circular was transmitted to the Teacher.

EptccaTIon Orrice.

Sre,—I.am directed by the Board to inform you, that.

unless your schoul keeps, up the average required by the Act, you cannot obtain your salary for any time you may teach after tlie date of this communication. If, therefore, the people of that District are so little alive to their own interests as not to support the school, as they ought, by sending the children recularly you have ne other alternative than to close the teiool, or look to the people themselves for your salary. Remeniber also, that any attempt to falsify the register, for the purpose of inereasing the average, may 8u ject the Teacher, not only to the loss of his salary, bat of his lreenee. I have the the honor to be, &e. &c.

On such principles had the Free Education Act been administered, from its introduction, to the 27th of January last. From the records of the Board, we find that between the 20th of June, 1856, and the date of the monthly meeting in January, 1859, there had been altogether 25 cases relating to average adjudicated on. Of these, 5 only were allowed ; the others disallowed. Qn the day last named, however, there came before the Board 8 registers, with averages ranging only from 164, to 19 51-61, on which it was ordered, ‘* That the Board cannot grant certificates for salary in any of the preceding cases, under the express conditions of the 21st Section of the Act, 17 Vic. Cap. 3. But that the Board will entertain petitions from the Teachers and School Trustees respectively, so far as to recommend their cases to the

favourable consideration of the Lieutenant Governor in in future,

Council. * * * * * The Board will not rnterfere with the operation af the clause regarding the daily avers. ze attendance at schools.”’

This reversal of its former practice was not acquiesed in by all the members, and on the grounds already stated, petitions were in consequence presented to the Executive Government, and the same. rate of remuneration obtained as in the case of ; Thiw decision haying failed to meet what , ‘e they hey doomed the justice of their case, the people hare as a last make it law,! :

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| Wuich some members of the Board think ought to be accorded ' ¢o them by investing them with a discretionary power, would, in my opinion, were i conceded, be a source of endless uncertainty and dissatisfaction.

That portion of the Report of the late School Visitor, Mr. Irving, to which reference is made by the Board of Edueation, in the preceding document, and on which the Hon. Colonel Swabey briefly remarked as above, is as follows :

‘** Porm of agreement with Teacher’ and ‘ Teachers Certificate to obtain salary,’ neither of which is in accordance with the letter or spirit of the law.

‘* First, with respect to the *Forn: of agroement with Teacher,’ All will admit that, where there is a contract, botli partics should be equally bound, and neither should have an advantage over the other. Tho principle of even-handed justice, is, however, very far from being observed in the ‘Form of agreement’ ander consideration, By Sect. 21, 17 Vict. Cap. 3, it is provided that no Teacher ssall be entitled to his half-year’s salary, unless during the half-year the average daily attendance shail have amounted to twenty. Now, is not a moment’s reflection sufficient to shew that no feacher can possibly have it in his power to eompel such or, indeed, any other attendance of pupils? And, is it not quite as obviously true that, although the average daily attendance of pupils may —vwing to causes over which tho Teacher had no control whatever—have been below the amount required by law. he may, nevertheless, * have conducted his school, duly, faithfully, and punetually, in conformity with the Statutes of the Island, and the Rules and Regulations of the Board of Education. from and during the term ’—six months —for which he ought to reeeiye a certain specified allowance: ? Most certainly, And yet the Teacher—owing to the unfair manner in which he is dealt with in the agreement—i to suffer the loss of his half-year’s galary, in the event of his not having had the prescribed daily average attendance of pupils for the six months, although ho may have fully, faithfully, and efficiently, acquitted himself of every obligation imposed upon him by the agreement.

‘Great and monstrous indeed is the injustice to which Teachers may thus according to the strict letter of the law be subjected.

“If, then, I have fairly stated the case, as I think I have, the necessity of such an amendment of the law, on this point, as that suggested by me—an amendment which would render its operation, in such particular, perfeetly just and reasonable —must b+ imperatively demanded ; and, fortunately, it may easily be effected. The prescribed * Porm of agreement with Teacher,’ if amended so as to make it personally obligatory upon the Trustees, for themselves and tae other inhabitants of the School District, who may be liable to assessment on aecount of the school, strictly and fully to do their duty in keeping up the requisite attendance of pupils, would of itself secure the complete and satisfactory working of our present system of popular education, According to the present ‘ Form Pof agreemont,’ the Truste:s loosely engage ‘to keep in as regular attendance as possible all the scholars resident in the said District.’ Now, L humbly sabmit, that an obligation so worded is, in fact, no obligation at all. To render the obligation effectually binding upon the Trustees, they should, by law, be positively required to engage—not, as now, to keep in as regular attendance as possible all the seholars resident in the District,’—but to keep up the full average daily attendance of scholars required by the law, unless the prevalence of epidemic or contagious disease in the District shalf make it impossid'e for them to do so; and. in case they shall fail to keep up the average daily attendance of ae required by the law, except, as above excepted, although eo ‘Teacher shall have fully and faithfully performed his part o

the acreement, and they shall not, on account of the average daily attendance haying fallen below the amount required by ithe Ry be able to grant him (the Teacher) the onstihentos ‘necessary to enasle him to receive the allowance so % would, otherwise, be entitled from the Treasury ae re a . then, and in every such ease, the Trustees shall be bound, . 1 eateable penal sum, to pay to the Teacher immediately | the full amount of the allowance which, rere ‘be entitled to draw from the Treasury of the a - 2 | amount to be finally raised by assessment of oe an | others liable to assessments on account of the moles SE a | «¢ Some perhaps many, in the country, would obje Sains i f too stringent a nature as respects roposition, as being of too ss hinki fe sage” E I Trustees. Reasonable and right-thinking men—w aes ; ! lar education—would, however, fertin enn juts vate te sheey d cheerfully acquiesce in Iam persuaded, think otherwise, and ch y

i i . Such° men would, L iB Oe, petediels ae aaly considering it, that its anes oh ; nd, be at once to close di would, on the one hand, be ¢ : ie onlenete in which they are either not poqanrete = not deserved ; and, on the other, to cause them to

‘faithfully and zealously sustained in - Districts m which they are really required aad. truly done rt of it ; but, as 6°. gould very easily argue further in PypPO d edad bo there observations and suggestions have already ceaah further ‘eonsiderable length, I shall now Jeave it, 7 ee ot | ik, tothe wise consideration and soun, ion Oa. that remark, ae especially it is intended to he subiattted ; “4 those ip ie Board of Education, and nex’ to the Legislature ; at atti frst te reconimend its adoption in practice. th y —to ‘the i iad opinion concerning it, and, tothe obuer, to concur W approve of it.’

I was not present when the Bear’, poncurred in this Opinion |

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Bees | bef If this proposed amendment, of the ‘ Form of agreement

with Teacher ° amend the ‘ Form of the Teachers Certificate to obtain salary.’ | As the form of this Certificate now sstands, the Trustees, | thereby certify that the Teacher * has diligently, faithfully, /and soberly discharged his duty during the last—months, as | Teacher of our school, and has duly kept a journal of the said _School daring the said period.’ The amendment in such case | necessary in suc Certificate, would be to this effect: ‘and | the average duily uttendance of pupils during the said period has been twenty, or more, if the fact be so. By-tho-by, the Board of idveation will find, on reference to 17 Viet. Cap. 3, Sect. 36, something like a rule or precedent for this proposed ) amendment of the * Forin of the Teacher’s Certificate to™btain | Salary.’ It is there expressly declared that ‘no teacher in , Charlottetown shall be entitled to receive asalary, unless he be she shall haye taught at Jeast thirty scholars, and such

aust be specified in the respective certificates.’ And to this, {I may, with much propriety, add that if such specitie precision as to the number of pupils taught by any District Teacher in Charlottetown, be just and necessary—and [ think it is unquestionably so—many circumstances concur in shewing that it is still more required as respects our rural District Sehools.”’

he following extract from the Report of the Special Com- mittee of the House of Assembly on Teachers’ Petitions, which was sent up to the Council on Thursday, 19th May, as explanatory of an item of the Appropriation Bill, seems to shew that the suggestions above set forth were approved by that Committee.

‘* Your Committee are of opinion that, in cases when a ascho 1 is opened with the number of scholars required by Law, and before the expiration of twelve months, parties keep their children from sehool without sufficient cause, thereby depriving the Teacher of bis full salary, your committee } would recommend that the School Act be amended 'n the next Session, so as to compel those parties who are delinquent in sending their children without sufficient cause, to pay the deficiency of the Teacher’s salary, by giving the Trustees power to assess the defaulters.’’

In connexion with the foregoing may now very properly be given thé following extracts from Mr. Irving's Report.

GENERAL CONDITION OF THE DISTRICT SCHOOLS.

' « T have said that, sinee the introduction of the Free Schoo! system, the characters of the Teachers and of the schools have become greatly superior to what they previously werc ; but that no injustice way be done to certain veteran Teachers, who, even under all the disadvantages, and in spite of all the discouragements attendant on the old system, faithfully and successfully acquitted themselves of the duties and ebligations which devolved upon them under it it must be admitted that such of these Teachers as are stiil living and still im the profession, have, by no means, waned in honorable repute. although of late a few yecag men of surpassing educational acquirements and of very great natural aptitude for teaching have been added to our educational corps, and are, individually, secaring to themselves a reputation superior to that of many thers m the profession, but that they still stand deservedly high in public estimation, as talented, fuithfel, and successful instructers of youth.’’

*< Of the merits, both of such of the worthy veterans and of the talented recruits in the serviee as haye come under my vbservation, F have had great pleasure in making honorable records. These records will be found in their proper places i: the detailed report of my schoo] visitations.”’

‘Towards the promotion of real popular education the Legislature have nobly done their part; and, insufficient as the salaries which they have provided for ‘Teacher s, are for the fair remuneration of such as are posseesed of the higher order of qualifications required by the Free Edwention Act, it must yet be admitted that they have strained their ability +o the utmost in that respect. Still, however, granting that every Teacher of the higher order were in the receipt of a salary of £60 per annum, it might reasonably be asked what are sixty pounds a year as an imducement for young men of energy and talent, (and none lacking these qualities should be employed) to devote themselves to the profession of teaching? Who can seriously contemplate a settlement for life, and formation of domestic relations with such a prospect as this before him? The effect of this inadequate remuneration of good Teachers, is that men of the right character either shun the vocation as a poverty-stricken one, or else pursue it only until they can leaye it for more promising and lucrative engagements.” ;

‘In order to induce men of learning and other necessary qualifications contentedly and thankfully to set Je down as rural District Teachers, not merely for a season as birds oi passage, but permanently, as bona-fide residents, due local encouragement must bo given by the inhabitants of the rural districts themselves. What, from the scantiness of the public revenue. is left insufficient by the Legislature must be made sufficient by the wise liberality of the people themselves. If tue people do indeed wish education—the tree of knowledge— tv grow up and flourish and extend its branches to throw its wholesome and protecting shade on all around and to seatter its fruits over the land, they must tend it with more care, and protnote its growth with greater liberality and more decided earnestness.” ein

‘* To this, I will, at present, merely add that ¢ the suiting of the amount of remuneration to the rate of qualification by a judicious gradation of salaries,’ is, in my opinion, positively the thing most needfal to be done at present with a view to ‘ the bringing in of a better state of things ; and it ought to be done immediately. Too many of our Teachers are mere inexperienced boys; and the worst of it is. that—uninfluenced by and strangers to sach wisdom as that possessed and displayed hy Plato, who, as we are told, when asked how long he meant to be a disciple, said, ‘as Jong as T am not asheme of growing better and wiser,’—they think they have done enough to ‘entitle them to rank among ‘ the — of the world, when | they have secured their licences. _ T ne preposterous practice ‘of employing such boys as Distriet Teachers, and allowing ‘them as high a recompence for their labours as is paid to the 'yery best and most experienced of the profession, was very ‘justly condemned by the Rev. Mr. Fitagerald, ata recent

meeting of the Board of “ducation ; and, I believe, every other

‘member of the Board then present concurred with him in opinion respecting it. It can easily be shewn to be glaringly unjust on different grounds ; and I, therefore, hope it will soon be reformed.”’

Further, in connexion with thie question, Mr. Irying thas concludes some observations under the head—~

‘< 4 moment's consideration will enable any one who is at all qualified to judge in the matter, that, to make & young man or a young woman a good Teacher, an apprenticeship—not of three months but of years, must be necessary. L hesitate not, therefore, to say, with respect to our present system of neg: § and licensing Teachers, so far as it applies to mere youth, that it is a deception of the people and a robbery of the pablic Treasury. The only way in whieh, it seems to me, any remedy can be provided for this clamant evil, would be to effect a union of the Normal School with the Central Academy ; and to allow the students being trained in the art of tuition under the Normal-School Master. to be exercised or employed, in some sort of regular succession, as apprentice assistants . teaching classes inthe Academy, under the eye, not only 0 the Normal School Master. bat of the Head Master of the Academy, either until they should be sent forth from it with well merited diplomas, or else dismissed as unlikely to be ever, or at least in any ee icin entitled to licences,

orti sufficiency as Teachers. fs ae ge 4 R. B. Invins, Reporter

e adopted, it will be necessary also slightly to

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IIOUSE OF ASSEMBLY.

SUMMARY OF PROCEEDINGS. —- | Tunspay, 3d May, 1859,

House met at 11 a. m.

Hon. Mr. Longworth’s Bill to enable Supreme Court to grant relief to Sheriff against adverse claims, was agreed to wm Committee. The Road Petitions were next taken up.

Mr, Conroy drew the attention of the House to the Peti- tion from Cascumpee, praying for ibe erection of a lock-up and Court-House. He detailed the frighful evils to which the inhabitants are subjected from the want of both a proper place for the administration of justice, and a lock-up for the confinement of parties who disturb the peace of the district.

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to demoralise the peop!e who camo in quest of justice, bus also turned the law itself into coutempt. When the Ameri- cans come there in large numbers, as was frequently the case, the inhabitants were very rudely assailed by them,—fema'es were in dread of walking out lest they should be insulted. The people had to lock up their doors, and remain, as it were, prisovers in their own houses. Surely something should be done to remedy such a state of things, and he hoped tho prayer of the petitioners would receive the serious consider- ation of the House.

Hon. Mr. Pataer'said the lawless state of Cascumpee bas been often represented to the House. It should by cheeked. They wanted a specification of the required build- ings, and estimation of the cost. The people must be pro- tected from the lawlessness of foveigners ; punishment muss be inflieted on rioters aud disturbers of the public peace. Phe required building must answer the purpose of a jail; They required information as to the expense likely to be in- curred before they cculd yote it into Supply. The specitt- cation might be produced before Supply was ended.

Hon. Col. Gray felt that the hon. momber for Tignish was entitled to the best thanks of the Hoase for having brought this matter forward, He was astonished to hear that a band of lawless fishermen would act in the manner so forcibly described by the hon. member for Tignish ; and was also surprised that the people have endured those out-- rages so long, without remonstrating loudly, and demanding: protection. The British Government would soon stop such lawless proceedings; one or two of Her Majesty's steamers would soon remedy the evil complained of, and teach lawless rufians that females should not be insulted with impunity.

ion. Mr. Yeo said the place was very badly off for pro- tection, and he hoped that something would be dove to rewedy the evils of which the petitioners-so very justly com-- vlained,

Hon. Mr. Pirny said that where any great body ef men congregated together there was always ‘found a few who were disorderly. Such was the case at Cascumpec, but, out of perhaps 300 or 400 there might only be ten, or perhaps a lozen, who were disorderly. And instead of the great yody sanctioning the conduct of those few, they were anxious .o see them punished. Kyen the captains and crews gener-. lly would feel disposed to assist the authorities in enforcing the law. The Americans did not kill each other wholesale, as was too generally supposed. They managed to live in. the States as elsewhere.

Messrs. Howat and Hom did not deny the noedssity which existed for the erection of a lock-up at Cascumpcc. Other places also required similar protection, and if the boon was conceded to one place, others would feel themsclyo. equally entitled, and would demand the same. The farmers of the country were not in such a state as to incur ang large additional expenditure ; and if these applications were coi- plied with, the result would be another issue of * shin- plasters,”’ which had already proved so ruinous to the country.

Mr. Perry observed that the “ shin-plasters” might, ero 12 months would roll round, become pieces of gold.

Mr. Dovsp would soon remecy the evil, and cheaply too, by the erection of stocks for the punishment of such lawles: ruffians as disturbed tho public peace, and insulted the females of Cascumpec.

Mr. Coxnoy would not go that far, would not revert tu the barbarism of former times, by placing avy ono, even his greatest enemy, <n the stocks, ;

Hon. Mr. Porz would ‘support the claims of the inhalbi- taunts of C»scumpec for protection, Thoy al] knew what kind of characters sgilors were, no matter of what country ; and it was a very great hardship and injustice that the people oi Uascumpec should be subject to the eyils of which they cow- plained, The matter deserved the serious consideration of the House, and means shou!d be adopted to remove thy grievance of the petitioners.

It being the unanimous opinion of the ilouse that some action should be taken on the petition, Mr, Conroy moved for an Address to His Excellency and Executive Qouncil, tv order a specification, &c., for building a Jail and Court-Houss at Cascumpec, to be laid before the tiouse next Session.

Hon. Mr. Lonewonrn feared the word * Jail” was rather an extensive denomitation, aud might lead the country 1 expect more than was contemplated. Should suggest th- substitution of “lock-up” for Jail, a8 tuore applicabiv.

Mr. Conroy consen‘ed to the alteration,

Tlon. Mr. Macactay said that a temporary Lock-up would | prove useless. It appeared to be a Jail that was required, and they should wait until they had sufficient funds to erces La permanent building. The country was in such a state at present that oo additional expense could be incurred ; and o: the whole, if the inbabitants of Cascumpec had evils to com- |plain of, the advantages which they derived frem such « ‘large concourse of Americans coming among them, spending | their money, perhaps counterbalanced all those cyils. | Mr. Conroy deemed it a very foolish arguaicot used by

the Hon. Mr. MeAulay, to suppose for a moment that any ecuniary advantages could compensate for the iisults to te- males, of which the petitioners complaised.

Mr. Dorve said that a Lock-up at Cascumpee would prove of great advantage to the petitioners. If 10 persons were ‘taken up for riotous conduct, and placed there for a reasor- ablo length of time, it would have a salutary effect, and de- ' ter others from similar coaduct, sabject to similar punis!ment. ‘Bat it has been said that other places required such pro- ‘tection as much as Cascumpec. No such thing! 3800 or 400 vessels were ofteti driven in at once all along the harbour, ‘and a vast concourse of persons the consequence. Among such a number of foreigacrs many Sacted very improperly, and by their iotous conduct put the iuhebitants in great . fear No place in the Colony was similarly circauistauced,-

and he felt it to be the first duty of every Governm. nt to ‘protect inviolate the persons and property of those over | Whow they ru'e. Ue trusted the Governm-nt v_uld take

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