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ai . > . Colonial Legislature. Nee a teen NGISLATIVE COUNCIL. Fripay, 19:h March, 1858.

On motion that the Alien Bill be committed—

The Hon. COL. SWABREY spoke as follows :—T consider this Act as the beginning of a system which may have the result of aliev.ating the Colony from Great Britain, Your Honors. [ am acturted, in my opposiiion to this Bill, by a spirit of loyalty; and though I do not for a moment dispute the loyal feelings of his Houor who introdueed it (ilon. Mr. Forgan), yet | think he has not fully cousidered the measure with that deliberation which its importance deserves. A

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measure introducing a change in our constitution, of a nature |

so im;ortant as this, should not be adopted suddenly; and

really L can sce no reason why such an alteration should be!

system. In fact, your Honors, the prin- cipal difficulty which l experience in dealing with the qaestion, is to discover any reasons for passing the Bull. If it be satd that it will have the effect of benefitting the commercial inier- ests of the conmuuity, I certainly should like to know in what But [ foresee many changes which would

Consider what would be its effects upon the operation of the Laid Purehasre Bill. That Bll has for its ohjeet the conversion of the tenantry into fiec- holders. But ounce let this Bill become law, aud the opera- tion of that Act hay be eif ctually checked, and the geueral character of our population totally changed for the worse. Men of the stamp of Walker and his filliousters may come and buy up large tracts of our lands: and the nataral effect

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. . ' j ss snail tlie r tia eat en toe of extensive (Tracts bclug held by ettrgens of the United otat

ad ypted into our

way it will do so. result from i's adoption.

would be to iatrodace and spread among our pe », te a desire for approximarion t the politi al imstituiions of the Union, and thas to pave the way for I, for one, bave no

© lustitut- ous. Even Amertean eit:zens ol

their adoptton. wdmiration I

intelligence read:ly admit that, unde

pmount of bert y is en] yed than under theirs. i Warn} ' . ; : . a be ES ae : your fic mors avaiust the ad puen of this measure, DY Whica

‘ 2 ’ our su] may bec ne the } r i” riy Of American Spec iaufors, The concession of such a privilege can only be compectisated

by some vreat pos tive ndvantuge to ourselves5 and L am at

} : : j ’ "7 > — aier .. En a loss to discover What that Is. Tue Reciprocity treaty

gives to American citizens all that they have 2 right to expect. As a subject of the Crown, L am not willing to let our lands puss into the hands of otheis than s rycets of the Crown. Uf it ean be shewn that the BI under doscussion

would have 2 beneticial effect upen our commercial re'atious,

' ° } t , ' 1 cuuld see some reise to Induce me to su portit, Out that!

such is not the ease ts proved by the fact that citizens of the

Rep iblic cat. and ad », CONG “InNOnY US, : ud trarsact mereantile i

to the r mutual advantage; and all may come and do Iike-

wise. My innorable

founded an argument for its adostion on the fact that:

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business wit! out restraint or di-tinc ion from our own peop'e, frieud who introduced this meusure

similar law is op the stature book of Nova Scotia; but, you li nors, theie is vO analogy be: ween the circumstances of the two Colonics. The great majority of the population of Nova Seotia are mt tenants to landlords holding vast tracts, as with us. Bes

holding lands in the Island shal! become British subjeess 5 aud

. > : % % , ides, this [3:i1 does not e nicurp ate that fore'eners

it may not be long before, under this law, the fee simple of our |

soil may become the property of aliens. Really, You Honors, [ sould feel obliged to any one who will inform

me what is the object of this Bil, if it be not the cexs'en o! |

the Colony to An.ericans. While we have been l-gts ating with the view of converting tenants tito frechollers, pass |

this Bill, and seme wealthy speeulator may find it mor

profitable to receive the rents than to sell their hold ngs to

the tenants in separate lots; and Americans would not feel ‘

that delicacy aud consideration, in enforcing their claims |

azain-t the poor tenants, wiich a long and intimate arquaint- ance with their e'rcunstances Indaces the present landlord. and th ir agents to manifest. {t would have been but rea- sonable if the Government had -intima‘ed its action on a2 measure of this importance. Some re-olutions dec'aratory of its opinion ona matter of this nature should have been be'or: us, jf for no ov her o'ject than to satisfy your [bonors that it hid receive! these reason-, I move, your Honors, that the House zo into committee Or the B ll tits lay Six mouths,

Hon. Mr DINGWELL —LI do a.t con-ider that it would

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“Or van, to postpone the considera- At the same tme, [ think it had beiter |e over for a short time, as it has beeu intro- duce! but a few days siues.

tion. ATTORNEY GENERAL —I1 quite agree with the

tion of this [3i\] for six mouths.

sucvestion of his Honor, Mr. Dingwell. 1 certainly am not ? : . : prepared to deal so suddenly with a messure invoiving so

great a chan ze in our constitution. With reference to th observation which fell frou his [loner, Col. Swab ‘J. l agree with him thot the siiuation of Nova Sco'la is widely differen: fiom ours.

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us, and foreigners would not be so desirous of buying large | We could, ause to the Bui restricting the number of aeres to be!

properties a+ they mig'it be induced to do herve add a ¢! u heid by any individual, and thus obviate the objections urged

by his Honor.

it had better lie over for a few days, say till this day week.

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Phe order of the day was then d scharged, and made the

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The Act confirmins the appointments of Constables and _ F cteee: cin _ . . ; a : Fence Viewers for K uy’s Couuty was read third time, and passed.

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Hon. Co - wa ey presented a petition from certnin in- habitants of Summerside and vicini y, praying for a law to preveut the ranning at larse, wichi

thin certain liasits, of Swine.

Hou. Att wney General laid upon the table a copy of ihe Warrant Book for last year.

A messaye from the House of Assom'ly by the Hon. Col. Secretary, with a Bill making bonds and other securities to the Crown binding on Real Kstate frou the date of their execution.

Mr. McGill also brought up a Bill subjecting the Militia to the Mutiny Act andthe Articles of War.

Hon. Mr. Beaton, by command, brought down a message from His Ixcellency the Lieut. Governor, on the subject of the transfer of the Birracks, and recommendins an appro- Priation in aid of the e julpment of a vuluuteer corps.

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Moxpay, 223 Masch, 1858.

Hon. Col.nial Secretary brouzht up from the Hesse of

Assembly 4 Bill to coatiuus the Act establishing the Centra!

Academy.

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dehberation in. thre Executive C uncil. Fux |

Tee land there is not held in large tracts as with |

While | throw out this sugg-stion, I do not | say that [ may uot oppose the Bil; bat at all events, L think |

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| Mr. MeDonaid brought up from the House of Assembly the Act confirming the appointments of Constables and Fene Viewers in King’s County, agreed to without amendment, Hon. ATI’ Y G¥NERAL moved the second reading of the Bill making bonds and other securities to the Crown bind ng ‘ou Real Estate from the date of their execution. In doing so, he explained that the idea formerly prevailed that they were binding in the Colonies as in England; but the decision

; : : i . 4 , Aa i of the Supreme Court in Nova Scotia had affirmed the oppo-

site opinion, and the question had been so decided incideatally by the Judges here. changes iu the operation of the present law. greater security to ‘he Crown, and also save to in lividuals, in any instances, the expeases attendant upon judgments being enterei up against them. already given.

Read a seeond time.

Hon. Attorney General presented a petition from John Stewart and others, Trustees of Danstaffnage Sehool, and others. Referred to committee on education.

Hon, COL. SWABEY moved the second reading of the Bll putting the Militia uoder the regulations of the Mutiny Act and Articles of War. The Billi had been prepared with a view to meet the suggestions contained in a despatch from the Secretary of State for the Colonies. It was desirable that the militia should be placed on an efficient ‘voting, under the command of the Lieut. Governor. ‘The Bill, however, it appeared to him, required an amendment. It provided for the calling out of the militia under certain cireumstinees, such as invasion or imminent danger; but he would suggest that it siould he amended by the addition of the words ‘ civil

ecommetion.” He instanced the occurrence of the riot at elfist some years since, which would abundantly jastify the presence of militia, and cou'd only be termed a civil cominotioa. Hon. Mr. DINGWELis would wish to know how it was proposed to arm the militia? lion. COL. SWABEY replied that the question had no

connection with the subject of the Bill.

; He hoped, however, that the action of the House of Assembly would enable him to wive his LLonur the infurmation he dosirel.

Tae Bul was then committed, Hon. Col. Swabtey in the hair,

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Presilent, the words “ riot were inserted. The Bill, as amended, wus then avreed to,

Tne Bui making bonds and other securities to the Crown i bind ne on Real Estate fror the time of the exeeution, was counmmitted, Lien. Mr. Aldous in the chair of the committee

Hicn, ATY’Y GENERAL thougit that bends already given should come within the operation of the Bill, from tue date of It= becoming law.

iis Houor the PRESIDENT was strong!y opposed to the ilea of the Hlom. Attorney General, on the ground of the sreat injustice to individuals which would result from it. i

Suppose a party applied (oO its friends to beeome iis sureties

t, and they consented, knowing that their property

utd not be nifected by ilie bond until it had become auc,

would it be right, by retrospective lesislation, to alter thei positien and bine

if, } their real estate on account of a bond whied they might pot have signed had the law bcen at the time a- ithis Bil eoute inal ted to make it in future ?

Ifon. COL. SWABEY.—Does this Bill requice a sus- pending clause ?

Hon. ATI?Y GENERAL.-—No. : | <Agred to without amendment, The tion. ATTY GENERAL introduced a Bul to pro- } vi le for the atrendance of Jurors at (x urts of Speetal Coiwn- As the law at present stuod, the

power to issue S.ecial Comiissions was one of the preroga-

wission and other matters.

tives of the Crown, aad could be exercised by the Lieutenant

Governor whenever he might deem it advisable to do so; but

it was necessary to provide for the attendance of Jurors a

such Special Courts. Lu fo: mer times, sheriffs eou'd summon

jucors whenever it was necessary to do so. but now the law }

preseribes the times and mode of procuring their attendance.

Tae Bill bad received the approval of both the Judges to | [i Provided that the jury sum-| woned to serve at a court held under special com:uission should |

whom he had sybimitted it.

he taken from the panel struck at the previous court, and should be summoned s'x days previously to the sitting of that at which their services might be requiied. Saould the num- ‘ber in atrendance be insufficient, it was proposed that the sheriff shou'd supply the additional number that might be required. In case of challenge to the array or individual jurors, the party making the o jection must do it before pleading, or must shew that he Was not aware o! the grounds ef the objection in time to have availed himseif of it sooner. | The presiding judge, hy the Bul, would have power to amend the jury list, if there were objectionable names on it. Pro- vision was made for granting a /ales de circumstantibus. In con-equenee of the recent defecis in the Grand Jury list in Ix ug’s County, a Special Commission had to be issued tor the irtal of certain parties li risoued en capital eha Zes,

Tne Bill was them read a first time, aud ordered to be read a second time to-morrow.

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Hon. Mr. Forgan presented a petition from certain inhabi- tants in Prince Coury, praying fur the use of the Bible in the Normal School.

Hon. COL. SWABEY called attentfon to the fact that |

there were no sizuatures su iscribed to the’sheet ou which the | petition Was written. Other petitions on the same subject were in asiuilar condition. This ied to the natural inference that the majority of the petition +rs had never seen tiem. ilis Honor the PRESLDENT.—The rule is that there wust be at least three signatures on the sheet on which the petition is written, It is, however, optional with the Louse to waive the rule. The petition was then received and referred to the com- mittee on education, as also were two others on the same

and the tion. Mr. Bagnall; the latter of whom presented a a . : a ei ° . a a petition from the inhavitauts of New Gla-gow and the adja-

; . . ‘ -¢ oe <n cent settlemen’s, praying a change in the place df holding the

Court of Comumiissiouers for the recuvery of smali debts to)

the vicinity of New Glasgow Bridge. Reierred to the com-

mittee on miscellaneous subjects.

Hon. Mr. Dingwell presented a petition from Allan Fraser |

and others, praying the use of the bible in schoois.

The Bill mcking bends and other securities to the Crown binding on real estate from the time of execution, was read u third time and passed.

Hoo. ATP?Y GENERAL introduced the Bill providing for the registry of bills of sale of personal property, which

_had’ passed the Council twice before, but had becn lost in the

The Bill would effect two desirable |

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House of Assembly. The experience of every day but con- firmed his opinion as to the necessity of such a measure. It formed part of the law in Canada, and a Bill similar in its object was before the Legislature of New Brunswick, The Bill being the same in its provisions as that which had been previously discussed, it was uunecessary for him to explain them,

Read a first time.

The Bll for subjecting the Militia to the operation of the /Mutiny Act and the Articles of War, was then read a third time and passed,

The bill preseribing the summoning of jurors, &ec., was then read a third time, and committed to a Committee of the whole House. * Hon. Col. Swabey in the chair.

Ou the clause empowering the Judge to supply deficiencies vin the pinel being read— | How Mr. DINGWELL thought that the Judges might not wish such duty devolved upon them, It would be better that the Sheriff should perform it.

lion, Mr. CRASWELL preferred leaving the authority in the Judges. | Hon. ATPY GENER AL.—The Court has power, under ithe old Act, to amend the original list wheu handed in. This be tried, | Hon. Mr. DINGWELL did not, for a moment, mean to cast any reflection upon tie Judges; bat he considered that | the clause would coufer a very serious power, which they | might not wish delegated to them. | Ton. ATT'Y. GENERAL thought that the Sheriff, as being a resideut in the County where the Court met, migat | be, in some cases, liable tu suspicion of partiality, which would hot attach to a Judge.

Hon. Mr. CRASWELG suzgested that supplementary names should be drawn from the original list.

lion. ATI'Y GENERAL stated that the inconveniencies wach had reudered the Bill necessary might not be ex- perienced again for many years.

lion, Mr. DINGWELL would saggest that for every ab-ent Juror three names should be ha ded by the Sheriff to the Judge, who should select one_to serve on the Jury.

authoising G rand Juries at special Courts to present parties, Not in jail, or om bail, or named in the comaiis-ioa, and pro- viding for the issuing of bench warrants aud subpe@uuas in such cause

! was agreed to with the additional c’anse, e Dili comtauing the Act cuustiiuting the Centrzl y was read a secoud time.

iow. Mr. Forgan prescuted a petition of James Clark and others, of Lot G5, praying for a grant to extend the ferry wharf at Rocky Pout. Meferred to the comuiittee on ruads and bridses.

A we-saze from the Heuse of Assembly by the Hon. Cui. Seeretary, with the Dill for the safe cusiody uf insane persous, agreed to Withoat amendment.

som + ~ = re Wepnespay, 24th March, 1858. Hon. Col. Swabey reported the joint Add: es 10 the Queen,

same commitee which had prepare) the Address were appointed to prepare one to the Leeat. Governor, praying Hi- ixeelleney to transmit it to the {Lot of the Throne.

The Act continuing the Centra! Acalemy Act was then comaitted, agreed to, read a third time, and passed.

lion, ATL Y Gi NiRAL moved the second reading o! the Bill to prevent frauds by secret bills of sale of personal weperty. ‘Tne Bill was the same as that which passed the | Coane i last year, but was rejected by the other branch. Ih was Rot necessary to occupy the time of their Honers in

| Gili was debated. He mght, However, state that it did not

|reuder the registry of bills of sales in any way compu!sory— | that was optional with the holder; but it gave priority to | registered over unregistered bilis. The place of reg stry woul] be in the County wherein the grantor resides. not be a res.dent of the I[-land, the bill would be registered ‘ia Charlottetown, A certified copy of any registered bili leould he given in evideace. Any party bring’n, a bill to be |reyi-tered could make a copy, and the Prothonotary could jceitily its correctness, The expenses aiteudant upon regis- | tering and getting certificate weed not exceed three or four | shillings; te regisiry fee would be only a shilling, Oue | Very Siromy argument in favour of the measure was the un- doubted effect it would have in raising the va'ue of personal | property, as a means of borrowing money, by the security it

| woud ufford to the lender, who, at present, has nothing but |

‘the honor of his debtor to rely on, Le had good reason to (believe that the Bill would receive the sanction of the House lof Assembly this s-ssion, as the want of it had been lexpcrienced during the last year in several instances.

Lis Llouwor tae PRESLDENTL kuew of one ca-e where a j party had given no less than turee biils of sale of the same |

| property. jsily for such a measure.

| Hon. Mr. DINGWELL thought that parties would be | subjected to great inconvenience in having. in many instances, to travel long distances to have their bills proved and ‘registered. Lu cases where the property transferred was of isuiail va ue, it would not pay to travel to the registry.

Ilis Houor the PRESIDENT explained that it was not necessary that a bill of sale should be registered, if the holder \did not chuese to have it so. ‘Tne object of the Bill was merely the prevention of fraud.

| Hon. Mr. BAGNALL.—Parties can send their bills by

mail, and can bave them returmed with the certificates of the |

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lion. ATTY GENERAL.—His Honor Mr. Dingwell is |

‘under a mistuken impression. ‘The Act provides for the | proof of bills of sale before the present Commissioners fur

taking affidavits in the Supreme Court, of whom there are | subject, presented respectively by the Hon. Attoruey General |

several throughout the different sectious of the country.

| The Bil was then commiit-d, Hon. Mr. Atdcus in the chair. Reported agreed to, with a &w unimportant ameud- ments,

_ Message from the House of Assembly by the Hon. Colonial Secretary, with the Fishery Reserves Bill, which was read a first <ime, aud ordered to be read a second time on Friday.

of Summerside, schoo!-mistress. praying remuneia ion for six

months’ scrvices in that capacity; also a petition of certain |

settiers ou Uid Town Road, Lot 22, praying a grant to con- ‘tinue the services of a teacher; and a petition of Daniel McKinlay, district teacher in Charlo:tetowa Royalty, praying that his salary as such be raisedto £70. Severally reierred to the committee on ¢.ucation.

clause merely gives the same power when a case js about to |

The Hon. Attorney General iutr duce j an additional clause, |

on the ocea-ion of the marriage uf the Prinee-s Royal te! ¢ ° v-50- Se - . . ' Prince Fr devick William of i’russia, and on his mocion, the}

lengthy repititious of what they had heard befor, when this!

Lf he should |

Such conduct was the best argumeut of the neces: |

Hon. Mr. Forgan presented a petiiton of Ravina Richa dson |

| Tuvurspay, 25th March, 1858. Message from the House of Assembly by the Hon. Colonial Secretary, with the Act for the imposition and collection of ‘the Cape Race Light Toll, and the Act increasing the rate cf interest on Treasury Warrants. Read a first time. | The Hon. Colonial Treaserer brought up from the House \of Assembly the Act providing for the hearing and determin- ‘ing of causes in the Supreme Court in cases where the Judges ‘may be interested or otherwise, agreed to. Hon. Mr. Wiight presented a petition of Lena TH. Stumbles, school teacher, of Lot 56, praying remnareation for 5} ‘months’ servicesassuch. Referred to committee on education, Hon. Attorney General presented a petition from Ewen MeKachern and Hugh Campbell, for a graut towards a wharf ‘at River. Referred to committee on roads and bridges. His Houor the PRESLDENT introduced a Bill relating ' to the office of Surrogate. He explained that it was the same ‘as that which bad passed the Council last year, but had not been sanctioned by the House of Assembly, that body con- sidering that it came before them at too advanced a period of ithe session. Theire Honors would probably remember what ‘were the objects of the Lill, as they were stated last year. ihey were two-fold. One was to empower the Surrogate to authorise partics to administer oaths iv the country in matters -appertain'ng to the business of his court. Their Honors Messrs. Wright and Craswell might remember some instances, which cecurred in Prince County, where great delay and in- convenience had been sustaine!, and expense incurred, by the necessity which at present existel for parties to come to Charlottetown to be sworn before the Surrogate. One object of the Bill was to render unnecessary a recurrence of such trouble. The other related to the divisioa of estates of deceased persons. At present, if it is desired to ivide any such estate, the only course is by a long anl expensive process in the Court of Chancery. Tae Bill provided a more expeditious and mneh cheaper mode throug! the Sur- /rogate, on Waom it conferred a jurisdiction in such cases, not exclusive of, but concurrent with, that of the Court ef Chancery, but at much less cost to the parties, He knew

been for the expense which an application to Ciuancery entailed. At preseut the cost of getting a division of an estate |of a deceased person was about £25; by the Bill, it weuld |not exceed £4 or £5,

The Bill was then read a first time.

His Honor the PRESIDENT suggested the propriety of rescinding the 57th rule, which required petitions to be pre- sevted iv the Council on all applications for money, in cases wherein petiticns had been presented to the House of Assen - bly, so far as related to applications for aid to roads, bri'g # and wharfs. The House of Assembly vot.d the motiéys tof those services In gross, and the different members subdivided ibem according to their estimates of the requirements of par- ‘icular districts. The present system devuived a great dal of unnecessary ‘trouble ou the clerk, aud occupied uscless s,ace op their journals,

Hon. Mr. DiNGWELL.—The Council would not know what was required by the various sections of the country, if it were not fur the petitions which come before them.

The Jury Bill was then read a third time and passed.

HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY. Fripay, March 19, 1858. BIBLE QUESTION. PETITIONS RELATING TO EDUCATION. ( Concluded.)

IIon. COLONIAL StCRETARY.—The observation mada by Tis Lordship, the Catholic B shop, te the hon. member from Port Lili (Mr. Yeo,) was, in my op: on, a perfectly correct one ; ind L hesitate nut to say thal the clamor concerning the existing reg iations affecting the use of the Bible m our public schou!s, has been calied fortn and promoted, imtoo naiy instances, by individua!s whe, in jadgment, seem to have litle or no religion atal. Tne clameur, however, if there Las been iny, bes preceeded from those who have been mainly mestru- avnatalin the getting up of the petitions and in the procuring of signatures to then; and not from as, who desire to mnaintan autopaired both in principle and in practice, that uational system of education which recogiu:zes the propriety of non- nwerference with respect to religion, in our public schools 5 whiixt it, by no means, prowibits or preciudes the reading of ‘ihe Hl ly Seripiures therein, but leaves it perfectly optional wih parents.

Hon. JI WIGHTMAN —' hey who have sent in the peti ions which «re now under our consideration, have, I sincerely believe, been influenced by nothing, with respeet ta then, but by an Vaverruling veneration for the Word of God, and the sunple, yet ! earnest desire that, in school, as we} as at home, children should ve tanght, thar itis not oaly their doty, but the dearest of afl her privileges to read and stady the Bible. The petitions fhave, | beleve, been, in every instance, got up and signatures jaided to them. in an oper, fair, deeorous, and Christian spirit ; nothing like claweour having, many case, proceeded from any parties having any-counection with (nem ; and it very Ul becomes the Hon the Coloma! Secretary to lay anything bke clam er to their charge.

fon. CULONTAL SECRETARY. — It was the hon. member i from Port Titi (Mir. Yeo.) aot t, who dd se.

Mr. PO E.—i have betened with pan tothe speech. whech. on the question new ander our Coasderaliou, the Lon. meunher from Plioty G ea (Hen. Ro Mooney } nas intl eted wpen the com- } Inttitee,—2 speech se indecorous, rset ing, ana wreverent, as fought to draw for han expre-sion of cordenmation fou every | member of the Toase. bt has bes n said that the voluntary or | permissive system, a8 it respects the ue of the Bible, im our District Schools. which 13 how tn operation, 1s good, aud gives satisfaction to all parties baving a ditect iierest im these schools ; and this 18 not dened. Put the case is the very reve 82 with respect to the Ceutral Academy ; for what is ca'led the ltest clause of the Academy Act, protibuis, itis said, (re reading of the Brble in that instita ton, Whether or mot this be the rigkt nterpretation of tha: clause. | will net presume to de'ernne 5 hut, as it 18 allowed to ope-ste tothe exclusion of the Bible ifrom the instrution, itongit o be repealed ; for certanly every | privilege of evucation, wuether classical, scientific, or religions, | which erher is, or nay be, +xtemied to scholars in our district schools, ought to be as wench within the reach and option of these who study in the Academy. If the repeal of that clause | were eff-cted, ail our publc schoo s—thewAcad amy, the district | schools, and the Nermal Schoo|—weuld all be unier the same volantery of permissive SVsiem, with regard to the use of the ' Bible: for the thon. the Colonial” Secretary and the Hon. the Clonal Treasurer both meintatn that there is neher any law in exstence, nor rule in force, which prohrbits the use of the Bitie in the Normal School This aastormiy and universality i

of freedom, with respect to the use of he Bible in our schools — which are in fact, all that the petitioners aud they whe support their petitions 4n the Legislature desire-—-re evidently most | easily attainable; and wot a single argument, based upon | genuine principles of either rations! or legal equality, as resp c's ithe different religious denomenations in the Colony, com be ladercnced 16 opposition to their Cconcesaia: | What the peitioszers, and we who suport them in the Leg siz- [ Continued on last page]

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