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. FRIDAY, MARCH 19, Monday, March 22

The greater part

CHARLOTTETOWN, SATURDAY,

APRIL 3. 1341...

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a, .

Of this day Was 8

( Continued. ) when a numbér of Resolutio

A; exgl'ydsin this: Journal of the

. spo on b Mr. T Pgllriner, being read1 homs

' ouse resolved itself int

on ; andflqn the House reslfnfiEgo

, ' omson had been 1 I,

V olrlnfirggttee haghcome to the followiti’igyrgsaghihofd that the

LVED, atit is theo ' ' ' z—-

‘ h In pinion of th '

_ ; signageng ply John Thomson, Estjs iiiorlliililinee, that . iniIiUitOusa :0: Cage of.‘he Petitiongr arosetg’yemer‘ harlmwmwfi (needing, in which the learned All" obea

I “amean and stilling Mr. .Paliner) hada h'anrle’!’n r

I that the said,John TLeaCh of the privileges of this H, was

. .51 the Speaker andlbmson, Esq” be admoniShed :tulsfi;

owmg words:__, 6 mquired to apologise in th:

. ‘Speake

. .‘ John Thomsoii,

. havmg used unp’

,- ' House, when it mg given offence

. Palmer.”

Supply, 118 were agreed to.

preceding day, as to on, With reference to

mmittee of Privile . es the Chalrmau repgrt.

Commit: . ee was appomted to inquire in measures‘

tlire which had bee '

O,r . I) mean 1 . was Oil-$3123“: Of Mr. D. szddgiiullfiuo'ls and Beacons. Governor: 0 be Presented to Hi

To Hing-,Ercellency Sm CHARLES AUGL‘ (man! Govern/1r. (5-0. (3-5 (H. May it please your Excellency- tioThq‘llIoulsf of Assembly, , don ‘ . 11.0 tie ublic Acc mlianpglpagpse lto this Honourable House Rertormed by Spechmzz l debate 'eyt {fgglmge on the floor of, .ounty to assist the Sher'l‘fon'stables sent to the hgnjlsblfly; u-d am sorry ,br tron of his duty in that Cdu or e and learned member, 1 said to have been performeiltlv)

he Resolution h ’ ofa riot and an ' - . av . assault 0 eed ‘0, Mr. Tl’iOmsclrlig‘ been PM flom the Chair, and request’ that your Excelln hls

'-“ Ssrfieerlt m a...£ii.l’§f1‘i§'l‘.§2£1agsm .meJ Pml’e” Offigers tom. harged.

‘ r. Secretary ' - His Excellency

li'om

person; and have humbly

Haviland delivered the following Messages

IV]: ‘ the Lieutenant Governor :—

of, and that His Excellency was pleased to say, send an answer by message. _ _ ["“E‘T MESSAGE] The rest of the day was spent in Committee of Supply. ‘ 'A. FITZ ROY, Lieut. Governor. Lieutenant ,Governor lays before the House of _ y the Plan of a Survey of Lennox Island, accom- ied by the Surveyor’s Report of the description of ' . .Soil, the extent of improvement made thereon by the . ions, and the length of time the Indians have resided - the Island, as requested by the House of Assembly , jtbe last Session. ,Government House, 19th March, 1841.

. ' WEDNESDAY, March 24. The Bill for regulating jhe qualifications of Jurors,

passed, on the following division: Yeas—Messrs. Thomson, D. Macdonald, Forbes, W. Dingwell, Macfarlune, well, Fraser, Maclean, Hudson, 12.

Nays—Hon. J. S. Macdonald, Messrs. Palmer, Beck, Montgomery, Macneill, Yeo, Dalziel, Longworth, 9

The rest of the day was spent in t matters relating to Roads and Bridges. division was inserted in our last.

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[ssconn MESSAGEJ '

A. FITZ ROY, Lieut. Governor. The LieutenantGovernor transmits to the House of ' bly the Copy of a Presentntent ofthe Grand Jury _ jug": County, with reference to the difficulty and

nvjbpience arising from the refusal of persons to ' as Constables, who have been so nominated by the rt, and recommending that a summary mode be vided by Law, to compel persons to serve who may appointed Constables by the Court. -Also, The Copy of a Presentment of the Grand Jury 1 King’s County, upon the insufliciency of the 'Fence , , und the Jail Yard, fcr the safe enstody of Prisoners. ‘3"; 'Also. a Statement ofthe Grand Jury of Prince County,

the‘necessity of‘Eertain' improvements to the Jail' in ' at County. All which the

THURSDAY, March 25.

Criminal Sessions in Queen’s County,

and to be regulated Sessions in England—Second reading on Tuesday.

The Bill introduced by Mr. Thomson, the Road Compensation Act,

bill was lost. -Mr. Rae reported quire into the expenditure on Buoys and Beacons. Mr. Longworth reported ti‘om the Committee torep’ort on tlie‘be‘st Sife for a Light'l-Iourle ‘fo‘r‘b town Harbour, and the probable cost of the structure. Mr. Palmer reported

Lieutenant Governor recomménds to referred the several petitions and other documents re

= - ,' cm's‘de'mmn of the Hopse' the construction ofa new wharf at the. Ferry Point opposite . ' Government House, 19th March, 1841. Charlottetown. - I. ‘ The three last mentioned Reports were all referred to a: SATURDAY, MARCH 20- Committee of the whole House. . i r. Thomson reported an Address to His Excellency, , —— , . ,

v ying that he would cause a newsutvey to be made ofa SALARY 0; FHE LIEUTENAN E GOVERPOR‘ .. ~ 6 of road from Dingwelps Mills ,0 Gangs“, River Bridge_ C The House haying gone. inio_ Committee on the Slate of the , .

reed to_ olony. to take into 'conSideration the Despcttch of Lord John‘L h r The House then went into Committee on the Public Sfizfl’bgfigfirig £2353; atl‘lllflgrm £103? Effigfiffi' It 1? ccounts, when the Report which we inserted in our last [he Colony. 9y 5 ° Y I i‘ I ’ : reported ‘0 ‘he House, and agreed to: With some amend‘ The Hob. J. S. MACDONALD said the subject before the H . m3 Olno Swill» moment ' ‘ Committee was one of very Great importhnce and called (or t ‘ ' M" R83= .mo‘ed that the following be added to “16 most serious consideration :f the Cominittcla. ’ - rt :——“ That the whole expenditure on Buoys and the Despntch read the day it was submitted to the House.

cons, with the single exception of those at Grand River, was most decidedly opposed to the measure therein referred to. expenses ofthe Gove

pears extravagant; and that a COmmittee be appointed, to because he considered the sum required much greater than the country

resources of the country would Warrant the House in granting; not hes'mue to adv

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,: quire into the means most proper for diminishing such : v penditure”—wbich was negatived, only Mr. Fraser and . Macintosh voting for it, besides the mover. Mr. Thomson, in particular, expressed himself warmly an inst the motion, which he seemed to consider had some . - ' h he himself had in advising the cing of the Buoys and Beacons at Three Rivers, and at on to say “that he .(Mr. Rae) had acted in a most vidious and ungentlemanly manner in bringing the motion I “d,” : Mr. Rae said he would not submit to such an imputation, d'moved that Mr. Thomson’s words be taken down— ‘ :- hich, was ordered—and the House soon afier adjourn- "! hmbour. ' ' ‘ I the afirnoon, the House sat with closed doors, ' ‘1 osubject 'was again taken up, as will be seen by the fol- the-lands of the Islan ' .Iwing extracts from the Journals :—- This gentle hm! be (Mr. ' Ordered, That the entry in the Journals of this day, relative ‘0 Operate M '4 Sllmulus,

. I ‘ d d ' .. now require . an to remind us H ' 08115111 Words sI’oken by 10h" Th°m5°‘." ESq be not complain. ifcalled upoh to pay the

but at the same time, he must confess, acknowledging the justice of the principle, talion of the present salary of the Lieu that the same should be borne by the Colany;

House, he had turned the matter over in his mind repe ,dly,

viewed it, he thought, in all its bearings. The Gover

{- a PC a H =- to E- a Q 5" ca

cessity of increasing His Excellency’s salary, his present income was inadequate to enable dignity of his office. and Lord John Russell in his Despatcb say Colony in North America, w

does not pay for the expcnces of its civil govc for back as 1825,

s that this is

when her Majesty’s government, so

to induce the Ilhuse to grant that if we did not comply, whole amount 0

r. l ; " And the same being read; . - - » ' , . . . most serious consideration, Resqlved’ rm“. 'Zh's House do now lesollfe "self .13“, 8: may'probably result from refusing to grant what p, .mmittee of Privileges, to take the subject into conm era- gwemmem deem a just and— ,easnname demnmL ‘ ‘ n' known , The House accordingly resolved

' ommittee. duty alone‘ paid in last year,

the imperial ~- itteerhad gone into the consideration of the matter to them must also be born

- - had heard Mr. Thomson in explanation, and hadlbeen pleased to forego the collection of the Quit

,.' . to two resolutions thereupon; which Resolutions a limited period,

m 3 again read at the Clerk’s Table, were, upon the ques- Stitute a Land Tax,

‘ .1 separately put thereon, agreed to by the House, and are for the improvement 0

followz— , siderable sum in I. _ O " -l. Rnsonvsn, That it is the opinion of .this Committee, Clown Lands, It 15 therefore ‘1“"9 Possum,

. . ' r ‘ demand on our Alexander Rae E a Member of this House, in 01123:. 3950’ 5 Government may, If “"5 . l L to the House t dig-:8 “min msolufion,_as an addition mtla‘etst wfigaqfunfavourable reception, - the Report on the Public Accounts, did not act in any unite; or 5;! ner either insidionsly or ungentlemanly; and that John gnce b'e caned’upon to pay moon, Esq, in having in his place charged the sai -. . . er Rae, Esq. with havmg acted in pa insidious im- ' ntlemanly manner, in offering the_ said Resolution, is . » ty of. breach of the privileges of. this House. - , V . ‘2. RESOLVED, That it is the opinion of this committee, v " l" t t John Thomson, Esq” a Member of this House, for the ., = ‘ l t of the privileges of this House In ofi‘enng certain * ,3, i : naive language-towards Alexander Rae, Esthbe brou ht ‘_ >, » thebuofthe HouIe,ond required to apologize to 18 / ouse III the tollowing words :-— “Mr. S ker ' I “1', glob“ insidious: and 'ungentlemanly,’ to

and appropriate

the Civil List. continued the hon. mem ' than this may be the result—Her Maje round upon us and say, you are . an I people; we have fostered your colony 1 the expences of your Civil government up and now lhat we tell you'that the salary of

is inadequate to can ' as the Representative of the Sovereign, on make some addition thereto, you answer, no; . no longer worthy of our protection—we shall w1t jesty’s Representative constitution, and annex you to scotians fleece you as they please. would be sorry indeed to see either of these

and he thought that the best way of averting

from amongst yap-dept!

th t I made use of the words But be new a ward: Alexander Rae, (

and acknowledge

pent in Committee of

to the expendi-

7 the f'ollowin-r Add b! the in x ' ‘ r 191ml G s Excellency file I his: overnmcm'”

srus FrTr . ' . "‘ ROY! K- 11-, Lzeu- . llcy ‘0 cmlifiv with the re

ifp tIhe course of their investiga- nr therein charges for services . Queen’ .Kingi’s County in the excel: , pin also charges for duties y ie said Sherifl; on account

I ‘ able t ' ‘ ' fancy WI” be leased Q to, 0 his standing In soviet *«__scqus.w. 84138 i.

re ommittee' appointed to wait upoii the Lieutenant? | men! that they are thus

Governor with the said Address, reported the delivery there- he would

Gorman,

he consideration of The scale of sub-

Mr. Palmer introduced a Bill for the establishment of for the trial ofon

fences not affecting life or limb—to . be held twice a year, by the rules of the Courts of Quarter

to further amend, was read a second time and. committed. The Committee rose without reporting; so the

from the Committee appointed to in?

a pointed ,bc addcdto iartottc~ l he paid‘ a

from the Committee to whom was lthat tli lative to ; increase

mar: thefcould "0t hell’I'Act placing the whole 1 a 1 any ungmen"dis )osal ofthe Le islatur ’ t. Governorwas necessary ‘ l. . . g.‘ ‘3‘

but as a consider: lfldVlse his said Majesty to gra

able time had elapsed since the Despatch was laid before the an 1 , -,Gene,;l Lordship was pleased to express, the

and Lord John Russell had both recognized the justice and on the ground than him to support the 'witbout trenching on his private resources; the only i itb the exception of Bermuda, which 3 entire resom-c mmenl- allhO‘dgll sal of the Colonial Legis considered that 'tms Colony to make

Civil List and general improvement of the Island utmost regret, far improved in their th its exigencies, to on i, as one in w island is involved, it was expedient to add been proved by ' members. the country entertains moved before long, and may not prove as satisfact him his full sala refusing to comply we by no means shou

Government of this Colony, _ _

in proportion to our colonial revenug, the trouble to look at , H , find that the Legislature have granted ' -

d were capable of bearing those chargce. McDonald) bad no doubt, was intended therefore, Tth it is a subject of the sources of this Colony have not yet so in keeping pace wi take upon itselfthc burden ofany part ofits Civil List, and that ld be added to a charge

and under difl'ercnt cir- igbt at an early day be prepared ile the resources of uch a demand upon itsj the Right Honorable the Secretary I and that until the whole of its tor-l placed at the disposal of . deem it inexpcdient levied on the inhabi- lie amount of the present

the sum we could ftbe civi‘

itself into the said over Which. the Legislature have no control, except by su (i'erancc; not to speak of the

ML Longworth (the Chairman) reported, that the Com- proceeds of the permanent Revenue Acts, amounted to £1200. ll ‘. e in mind, that the Imperial Government have iritoria Rents for ' the local and have allowed the Legislature to sub- j the proceeds thereof f the Colony; besides, there is a con-1nmtg 0f the Treasury arising from the sale of that Her Ma- liberality direct His Excellency to out of the Treasury of this Island, the sum re. if ofl‘ence be taken at our illiberabty, we may at Yes, Mr. Chairman, her) it is not improbable .but even worse sry’s Ministers may turn ungrateful, troublesome 11 its infancy, and borne to the present time; the Lieut. Governor ble him to maintain the dignity of his office (1 call upon you to you are therefore hdraw Her Ma-' 've you of your Nova. Scotia, and let the Nova- Mr. McDonald) events take place; i such an evil was, to the Lieut. Governor of the

Majesty’s M' ' . - mister ’ iwnll cease so soon 5’ “ho km

distant a period V as ,- of the subject, he pOSSIb'e‘

Sland currcnr-v . I. e lthis Island ,0 1,]; P ,l‘ annum;_be

long as the present Civil List of

he motion was seconde

d b Mr. SPEAKER thought y

it w Lililtpeasing the salary of His net revenue. impoverished in a state fit to meet that

’ disposablemon

, Lands. e‘v

1n the Trcasu

resources; the sequenlly do not know what is

I . i am a gentleman 1n this country

' y Edi-9.5L. ... representations "iii '3 lrom [1

what it reaby is not.

the other Provinces. the most promine

rounded by the Ministers in lieu

complaints made to former Mini better have weighed those complai and advrce of the Governor General to i . . . Lieutenant Govern r o' I 1; . the mode of selecting Juries, was read the third tune alldl“.hen ,his 6010“), :anLOjlngef-rflygfiy m” memo,- , S aker cited a passage out of a Despatcb Clark, Le Luella": Mitflgfldb stating that stbe Home Government . ing-

erievances of which the Colony Our grievances, numerous and only be increased by complying

He concluded by saying. that he won further until he had bead what hon. members 11

subject under con=idcra,:ion.

that as the Resolution be was a fully on the subject, he did

\Vhereas the Right his Despatcn, bearing

payable to the Lientcn Civil List, as voted by lthat the additional sum of .6 such salar ' y of the Pub to Fit

l among 0!

charge. cipal Secretary hearing date the 25th dress of the House of pcal of the Permanent

expenses ofthe Colonies.

ive'd state of this lsluu

he i ofits Civil List; and stated

When he heard i dition of the Colony might be such

he make a moderate but perm

iAssembly, by orderi ‘being sensible that the fin

‘the expenses of its Civil E ',House of Assembly, in its -tion, wherein was adoptc

ne-

'state as to enable it,

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list; it therefore behoved this Committee to give the subject its a . . . d. h , , and look to the consequences that l“ ‘3 "lexlle “3m t at a“) sum S ‘0“ Her Majesty's it was a well fact, that there is a considerable portion of the Revenue 2‘0

which, Ecnmstances this Colony provide for, ‘continue so ‘fbnds as that proposed by of State for the Colonies,

that any additional

'moved as an amendment, moment to cypress Committee; it was one of every member of

Excellency the Lieutenant l our Colonial affairs, we are thereby rendered q His Excellency’s Salary. ought to pay the Civil List

port and pay it.

parties who made such pr riably have done in other

jtbem the country has

, , sq., c Member of this Honorable House, m d lb 1 - " we we" 110‘ l'cab to that in all' 0 to nta i era sum per annum I . _ I .. . - ire .39. ill “(13:38, for lug; a. slum ’gviolafion Coil-3y for time being: so long as ihe Imperial Governmentshall an: Situated as it is, commas to pay the Civil List. Such a measure would, n} his . t !_ e proprietary ‘ List; for imperial Government ha

be tantamount to a commutation of the Civil

' um Th be! "u - .

' " w“ '“8 “lid in, and having mude_ his apo- opinion, _

’ ' ' M Home, ' ' l I. who Will be Governor _ ' q :r' ’ ‘ ‘ fiiwgsumd' by“ w‘ “om perhaps both, will have considerable influence at . / Ill."

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' ' ' ‘ b r his friends sentations of that proprietary body, it is likely that either e o with He; day had to my no less th

. _ as the colo ' Will use their powerful influerilcse

mof

GOVcrnor there

quest 0 Excellency as we are by the pro;

The people of England y no not know the state of

Majesty’s Principal Secretary 0 date the

and thatsucb ndditiona

ers reasons therein exprc e Revenue and Commerce of d, and that its funds Were capa .And Whereas Lord Goder-ich, w of State for the Colonies, in November, 183?, in answer to an Ad- der for tbé re—

Assembly, praying an or and, although

Revenue Acts of this is] his Lordship was ofopinion that the permanent and n for their civil Government, ought not to be defrayed from the Revenues of the Mother Conn- l try, and further, trusted, that at a

(1, both in population an lwould enable its Legislature to take upon

rnment, from the charge incurred

fig 3 rcpea

i“ that if the desired settlement of the Lands ble consideration ofbis (tbcn) Maj es of the Colony be

while at its present amount

and that wb inadequate to meet 8

l and casual Revenues are Legislature, this Committee burtbeu should be the Colony, by adding to t Salary of its Lieutenant Governor.

Mr. CLARK, on seconding the

his opinion on the that called for the Boom. By the Des are called‘on to make further