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CHARLOTTETOWN, SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1841.

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'AUCTIONS-‘ LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL,

MONDAY, April 26.

A Message was received from His Excellency the eu . Governor, with the following Despatch:—

the character and res t b' ' ' '

ducing unﬁt and unqdfl‘iﬁidliigrgdiig muller 3,1312; III): leulclythis irlirli‘c13nl'dhltilﬁrl have ydt fs'eeny ii bedieve His EXCEL? ‘

actuated less by the desire of bein’ - a mule.“ Orwar ‘3 “cation as an? I]

‘ g useful to the member of the Board and chicﬂ on th I f countl‘Y, than‘by the Prospect of emolument to l f ’ y' ' e p €81 0 poverty’ we I ' _ , 0b. re used his salary and at we 0 on more .' '-

taln'seats_ And whereas we feel deeply sensible of! the expenditure of the colintry, End this in :32; willfii-lleicbsillimy

the the ill consequences attending the allowance of pay eneﬁ‘ Either Pupils 01“ TeaCherS- “at

5th ,9 thg Member ofthe Assembly, especially on com 12th. I object to this Bill because 'I see in it the be inni’n

nee Sidering the fact that the respective Assemblies of Of a lysmm whiCh is to p“ g g the neighbouring Provinces Of'N ova Scotia and New

DISTRICT No 6.

> THE Subscriber will let by Auction, on the spot, on Li ‘ . Monday, the 10th May, at 10 o’clock, forenoon, the Ruis- , ‘ ' mg and Railmg the Bridge on Tod’s Mill-dam. DOWNING STREET, Slst March, 1841. ' ,And also, on Tuesday, the Bill June next, at 10 o'clock, fore- S‘R‘I have TecelVed and laid before the Queen “’30”, ,he repairing PM, of ,he Road from MiNeilys Creek m Address enclosed in your Despatch No. 14, of the, ‘Kie's; and same day, :1th o'clock, the raising the Bridge on “313131840. from the Legislative Council of Pri

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I drawl .' of this Island, and, having‘des- ng

Does that gentle. for eYery Teacher submitted to him.

ltile whole1 mpnely yoted for District Schools. have I an rea y 00 or an annual douceur Prorogued: We cannot i'esiglellitasocmogcliies‘ildtsi $11110: wlh'ose cemﬁcates he W111 annually haw; the present seSSion durin h. h , a \1 11] that seal be one of the formalities necessary to make 111 se Bins have been basséd’ has gm); ﬁres-23050;??? Eirftéfttilangeis'egglrgar, or is it only a benevolent plan to save thzse _ _ some 0 ' ' ﬁppigvhggtthelbuginess Of the country required,and i may have 9113?ng 1‘ highngrgﬁelggealmmwus Stomkeeper’, Who be . ,thy , ion .y_ 035 the appropnanon to the Men}- These objections were offered after the house had been in Com- ,3 emse veg amount ma mos, unreasonable sum, miles on the Bill, and are new repeated as the ob‘ectio h‘ but the other expenses attending the sitting of the Messrs' Lube” and Rae have ‘0 me 3111' 1 m w leh House have been swelled to an enormous amount. 7 But. because no notice has heretofore been given of an Intention to object to the pay of the Members of the House of Assembly, and as the withholdino' any portion thereofwithout such notice might occa? sion inconvenience to some of them, we have been induced to give our assent to this item in the present Bill, at the same time expressing our strona disap- probation of the system; and our dctermiiiztion to reSISt so unnecessarily large an expenditure of the public money for the future. ‘ CHARLES WORRELL, DONALD MACDONALD, WILLIAM MACIN'rosH, JOHN LIVETT, P. S. MAcNU'r'r, JAMES H. PETERS, JOHN M. HOLL.

Queen, I have time as the Assembly me, you to ,e_ patched that business,

the lowest Bidder, on aLQO’clock, the repairing the

FRIDAY, April 23.

Mr. Gorman, frbm the Committee of the wholehHouse on the State of the Colony, reported the followingResolutiQns; __1. ,RESOLVED, That from the Report of the Special Com- mittee, and Evidence reported by the same, it appears, that there are in a year, on an average of the last threeyears only ﬁfty-three days on which the Chief Justice isoccupidd on the Bench, taking into account all the Terms of the Supreme Court in the whole Colony, and only an average of four days occupied by him in hearing Counsel at Chambers, and only, In tliewvhole of these three years, one hundred and fifteen demstons on Record causes, and ninety~two in’i’other causes—.say on Summary causes and Appeals: The nhtural conclusion appears to he, that the amount of time occupied and business‘transacted ought not to be considered as excess Sive for one individual of competent legal acquirements, and

In the ordinary state of health. -

2. RESOLvED, That taking the facts referred to in the for- mer Resolution into account, it is inexpedi’ent, at present to - make any prov1sion for a salary fbr an Assistant Judge. ’ '

3. RESOLVED, That in case, on the evidence takenbefore the Committee, and on the letter Of the Chief JustiCe the Imperial Government should, on his withdrawal appoint another Chief Justice, it would be for the benefit of the Colony that said appointment. should be conferred onﬁsome indiv1dual not a native of or long resident in. this. colony and still less one connected with the claimants of the Town: ships therein.j

And the ﬁrst of the

Mr. Palmer moved, the word “Resolved”

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I have, disc, I. RUSSELL.

Bum,” Creek, L0, 65; and same Jay, at 3 o’clock, Repairing Edward Island, complaining ofthe system pursued by Brunswick, each of which, with a 11031] from Bonshnw to Mabey’s. Having laid this Address before the

April 215', 1841- The practice of sending up the appropriations for the

DISTRICT No. 8. as it is asserted in the Protest of the three members of

comm Ban Bridge, 1,0235. the Queen does not perceive what is the immediate mo-

Also, on the some day, at6 O’clock afternoon, repairing Battery the Legiﬂamre: that Her Maleﬂy woum regard With

“It”, Road and Building new Bridges baween Tmcadie Cross this answer, in their Wish for an alteration in the mode

1,. Road leading from the Gulph Shore to Mount Pleasant, Lot 37. case, ym} W111 conSider yourse” authonzed to recommend

Also, the same day, at 12 o’clock, making a Road on the new though "01 conformable to the Primiples in fofce in [his

ldnd' 5‘ 7. Bridge across Pisquid River, Lot 37. Roy, 65c. 66c.

, putof'the Road from Alexander M‘Fndyen’s to Bonsliaw; and 4he House of Assembl iti a r ' t' ‘ 1 on Thursday the 10th June, atlU o’clock, forenoon, the New granted to the Crown.y pp opnamg the suppheé . "churity \Wlll be.l'equired for the due performance. ofeacli con- "309in Her Majesty’s command to inst ‘ ‘ ac , turn the followin ans 1 th " ‘ C ' :— c . ~ ' . .THOMAS TOD, commissioner. g wet o e Legislative ounc1l : ommissioner s Oﬂice, current year in the same Bill, having prevailed in Prince , Edward Island for upwards of Fifteen years, without, THE subscriber will set to the Council, which you have transmitted, having produ- ‘ Monday me 10“, of. May, ced any very ev1l consequences to the Public Service, Also, on the same day, at 12 o’clock, noon, the Straightening ﬁve for the present Pomplai'lt‘ It 15 of web impor‘ance lhe Mill Cove Road between Mooncy’s and Kelly's, Lot 35. to the Celony ‘0 avold d‘sumon between [he braHCheS 0f Point Road, 110,35. great concern the addition of any fresh element of agi- On Tuesday, the 11,“ May, a, 7 o’clock, morning, the ramming tation. Should, however, the Council still persist, after _ - Roads and Tracadie Sundhills—the Stile to commence at the or considering [he Appropriation Bills Her Male“ mumﬂlh'ﬂg Pumps midge, L0, 36_ would not oppose their desire‘ on the subject; and injlhali lo M Aho, the same day, at 2 o’clock, afternoon, the repairing the h to t e Assembly the adoption of the practice ursued in On Wednesday the 12th ut7 o'clock inornin th re air'n New BrunSWle,aS m J: ‘ 'l bl ' ' p ' - . ’ :. St. Peter’s Road,’across Lo,t 37. ’ g, e p l g m 5m a e to the“ summon, al ,1 ens, . Country. “ulna,” line between St. Peter's Road and Mount Stewathridge, Lot 37. “Wt Also, the same day, at 6 o'clock, afternoon, building a. new '9: mm in,“ n _ On Thursday the 13th, at9 o’clock, repairing the Vernon:

Lieut. Governor, Sir Charles A. Fitz

,. ,1 V River Road, Lot 37. , mitevitmiﬁl ‘Also, on the same day, at 12 0’0 .m'mjt 7:" “mac Clark’s Mill Stream, Lot 37. lung.“ Also, on the same day, at 12 o’clzck MIM- ~ 3‘Road across Lot 36, South Side of the Hillsborough. ,rn'u” .9, On Friday the 14th, at 9 O’clock, repairing the Road through . new???“ the Monaghan Settlement. “Ht Also, on the same day, at 12 o’clock, building a Bridge over be but. Ke'lV’s Creek, 0" the Road leading from Fort Augustus to the l tripod.“

-—s _ THURSDAY, April 29.

On the passmg of the School Bill, the Dissentients gave the following reasons:

1. BECAUSE, This Bill authorizes two thirds of the In- habitants of any School District, to aSSess the remaining one third for the support Ofa School therein, “according to the number of their children and ability in circum— stances"—Of which ability, the said two thirds of the In- habitants, by the said Bill, are to be the Judges—this power of assessment, we conceive, to combine a power of levying both a Property and Income tax, and to be (particularly in the latter case) repugnant to the feelings and unsuited to the circumstances, 'of the people of this Colony; and also to be the introduction of a principle of direct taxation, novel in this Colony, and which may hereafter be drawn into a precedent for further carrying out such a prinCiple for other purposes.

2. BECAUSE, This Bill enables two thirds of the Inha- bitants Of any District to assess the remaining one third, for the support of a. School master of the highest Class, although they may be desirous Of employing one of the

lowest Class as o su'i d in th 1.. mm... ‘ltgaﬁts‘ t?) contridute to the support of

a system of Education, opposed alike both to their wish- es and circumstances. - t

3. BECAUSE, By this Bill, parents of female children may be assessed for such children,towards the support of District Schools, at which children of both sexes are to be taught, although such parents under the restraint of proper feelings and principles, may not permit their fe- male children 10 attend such Schools; and because, even if the principle of assessment, in such case, could be de- fended, yet inasmuch as parents of female children are liable under this Bill, to be assessed for the support of Schools, in which the Latin language and other higher branches of education may be taught, not in general deemed necessary for females, we conceive the provi- sions of the said Bill, in this respect, to be arbitrary and oppressive.

4 BECAUSE, This Bill reduces the present government allowance to Schoolinasters, the evident tendency of which. in our Opinion, must be to lower the character of Schoolmasters in this Colony. and ultimately to intro- duce therein, persons of inferior attainments for such

situations.

R. HODGSON, JOHN LIVETT, JOHN M. HOLL.

lock,- building a new Bridge

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, afternoon

’ repairing The following Resolution has also passed :— WHEREAS the House of Assembly have passed several Resolutions, one of which in particular, attributes im- proper and unworthy motives to this House, with regard to yarious parts ofits proceedings this Session, and also. unjustly reflects upon indiVidual members thereof; and it appearing that the House of Assembly, not content with circulating these misrepresentations in this Colony intend, through the medium of some Agent of their own, selected by them for this purpose; in the House of Com: nions of'Great Britain, to represent the said Resolutions, as‘containinga true statement of the Public affairs of this Colony. Therefore, Resolved, That a Committee be appomted to communicate the necessary facts, during the recess of this House, to Her Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, through His Excel- lency the Lieutenant Governor, and also to correspond with any. menﬁer or members of the,fmperial Par- J ’ ' .. .en- tations of the nose of Assembly; said Committee to have power of access to the Records and Papers of' this House, and to report their proceedings to this House in its next Sesssion. .

Ordered, That Mr. Brecken, Mr. Dalrymplc and Mr. Hell be a Committee for the above purpose.

it. Charlottetown Ferry. - i, Also, on the same day, , Road.

.On Saturday, the 15th, the repairing the Road from St. Peter’s Road to the Portage, Lot 36.

Ample Security will be required for the due performance of

Touch Contract.

1:. DAVID HIGGINS. Commissioner. RT CRAMﬁCommissionei-‘s Office, ' n pm." April 15th, 1841.

M4 O'clock, repairing the Threntum

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said Resolutions being again read—- in amendment thereto, that all after he struck out, and the fbllowing in- serted—“ That it is expedient that provision be made for a professional Assistant Judge at the earliest period which the ﬁnances of the country will admit of.”

The\House divided on the motion of ame u . , , v . . w, .

It“ , . DISTRICT No1 io. HE Subscriber will, on Tuesday the list day of

'24. June next, at he hour ofl2 ’ “"L'V .,.,iowmi_wmm day,

1 Pglvg “a. e making ofa Road from Flat River Road to Big Point. me M, » ,f The following day, at 11 O’clock, a new Bridge on Belle Creek ' ,,Biver; and the repairs ofthe Upper Road, leading from the Wood Islands to Pinette Mills. And at 4 o’clock, the re-building 3, Mle; Upper Flat River Bridge. V ("h-gun, On the 3d, at 11 o'clock, the repairs ofPOint Prim Road, to [commence at Donald Martin's hollow; at 3o’clock, repairing """ "he Road from Orwell Ferry, to Orwell main Road, commencing Jt‘nluxs;‘?at the Ferry. And at6 o’clock, the raising tbq. hollow near , [hm-u I‘wadoch M‘Leod’, Orwell Road ' ’ 1:. And on the 4th, at 11 o’clock, the making ofu Bridge on the _rMurrny Harbour Road, near the Township line. At] o'clock, FquSomple’s Bridge on said Road. At 3 o'clock, the repairs of , :Road and Bridges, on the Murray Harbour Road, near the MIMCounty line. And at6 o’clock, the repairing Montague Road, Stewards Pinette Mills, commencing at Murray HarbourRoad. Hart“ A. M‘DOUGALL, Commissioner. April!

" Flat River, 26th April, 1841. Apﬂ’ M “ Tuesday Ist June next, at 10 o‘clock, £27 on the Road 'l _'leading from White Sands to the Little Sands. Same day, at l’ﬂo’clock, £12 on the White Sands and Guernsey Cove Roads, 1" beginning at the White Sands Cross Roads. ‘ Wednesday 2d June, £17 on the Road and Bridges from the ‘1‘" .South River to the County Line, commencing at the South River at 10 o’clock, and immediately after-£22 (or so much as ’0", ma be required) on the Murray River Bridge. . . ursday 3d June, at 10’o’izlock, £30 to round up the Mink JIlI‘River Road, 14 feet .wide, beginning at the Hill, Mink River Brook, South and ofthe Road. Same day, at 3 o’clock, £15 to Jﬂllﬂextend the Wharfat St. Mary’s Buy. And the same day, at 6 Jo'clock, £22 on the Sturgeon River Bridge. ‘ Friday, 4th June, at 10 o'clock, £10 on the Hill and Road, "South end of Montague Bridge. Same day. at 3 o’clock, £12 on

ndm i, , , I 1 ion. was also agreed to on a similar

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The second esolution

division. _ n The third. of the said Resolutions being again read, ~.. " The House divided: ‘ ' Yeas, 15. Nays, Hon. J. S. Macdonald, Messrs. may...

and Yeo. , ‘3

" So it was carried in the afﬁrmative.

HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY. _» SCHOOL BILL.

Mr. RAE Objects to this Bill :— I

1st. Because it does not effectually remedy one griev- ance of which Teachers had to complain, v12 : that how. ever fully they might satisfy those parents whose child- ren were under their tuition, yet for the pittance of money to be drawn from the Government, they had to go through so many forms and‘so many difﬁculties, that many of them never appliedfor it 5—and those who did, had, in time and expense together, an outlay equal to a. considerable proportion of the amount thus drawn.

2nd. I object because the measure of authorising two thirds to assess the remaining third is not sufﬁciently guarded. A prior tenant who can scarcely clothe and feed his half dozen children, but has a. horse and a cow, may be aSSeSSed equal to a man of equal family possessing a valuable freehold property.

3d. 1 object to it, because there is money provided for the inembeis of the Board of Education.

4111. I object to it, because the majority of my con stituents have said, that as to the oﬂice of Visiter re: quiring a salary of One Hundred Pounds, the country could not afford such an establishment. Little or no objection was made by them to the manner in which he performs the duty, and in this, so far as I haVe seen and heard—they agree ; but they object to the ofﬁce as one too expensive for this poor Colony.

5th. I object to this Bill because I received the clear-

SArnnDAir, April 24.

Mr. Gorman, from the Committee Of the whole House on the State of the Colony, reported the following draught of a. Petition to the House of Commons :—

To the Right Honourable and Honourable the Knights, Citizen: and Bur cases of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assemble . l '

The Petition of the House of Assembly of . Prince Edward

Island, mdst respectfully sheweth—-

That last year a Petition from the House of Assembly was presented to your honourable body, and it was understood, from the reports of the proceedings in Parliament, that the Colonial Minister had expressed himself determined, in one way or other, to redress the grievances complained oﬁ

That the Lieutenant Governor of this Colony has laid before your Petitioners a Despatch, received from the Colonial Minister, stating, that ‘ although this question ori- ‘ ginates in motives of private interest, shared equally by ‘landlords and tenants, it assumes, in effect, the character ‘ of a publiqqucstion, and as such must be treated. It is ‘ Her Majesty’s earnest desire to remove every just cause of ‘ complaint, in all parts of her dominions; Her Majesty has ‘ been, accordingly, pleased to desire me to enter into com- ‘munication with the resident proprietors in this country, ‘ with a view to learn whether, by any further proposition ‘ on their part, means may be found to determine a question ‘ which has, for so long a period, agitated the Colony.’

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DISTRICT 1%. 15. ONEYS to be expended at Public Sale :

Further dissentient. .

BECAUSE, No guarantee is offered by this Bill that the principles of the Christian Religion (so far as may be practicable, without interfering with the peculiar tenets of any denomination of Christians) shall be recognised- in the instruction of youth.

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JOHN M. HOLL.

The following Resolutions were agreed to, on the rejection, by the House ofiAssembly, of the amendments made by the Council to the Fishery Reserves Bill:

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inﬂame Road from Aitken’s, Lot 59, towards Murray Harbour, and

Road from the Main Road to St. Andrew’s Point and George- tu Lifﬂ'éﬁown Ferry. . ~ . ’ Saturday, 5th June, 11 o'clock, £28 for extending the Wharf It Peters's Shore, Lot 59. , .

y The work to be let to the lowestvbidder, and sufﬁcient security required for the performance ofthe several contracts.

[WARD 3' E. THORNTON, Commissioner.

Three Rivers, May 3d, 1841. FERRY WHARF.

' 'EALED TENDERS will be received by the Sub- lr‘” scribe: until Thursday the Twentieth May, inst. for the r", "11 ' rection ofaWHARF at the point commonly called Minchin’s ; ll} oint, opposite Charlottetown.

Plan and Specification to be seen at the Subscriber's Ofﬁce. ? ﬂicient security will be required for the due performance of

’ a contract. ‘ ‘ JOHN R. BURKE, Commissioner.

grail > ,1 Quail“,

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omminsioner’s Ofﬁce, Lot 49, May 3d, 1841.

FIRE INSURANCE -

S still continued to be effected -by the Subscriber at , moderate rates, for the ALLIANCE Company ofLopdon, which, point of capital and stability, is second to none In the United

"run," lngdom,and gives to the assured, for five years successiyely, a

“you; ., of the entire proﬁts, amounting, on the last dlvlslon, to

" ‘ u a , ﬁlly per cent. of the premium paid in. The subscriber is

"I" .anored in all ordina . cases to settle lossesinstanter With- M'erettoe to the Board in London.

' "m" CHARLES YOUNG, Agent.

' “ Charlottetown, Oct. 1311., 1840.

‘ Z ' APTAIN WILLIAM HunnAnn begs to inform his '= ‘ mm“: Id the public in general, that he has taken the

Em", and intends to keep good entertainment for man '- " , or"! ‘3“ Temperance principles, and hopes by strict atten- _‘ “i 1“ "‘3‘" the favour of: generous public. 1 ,Char‘loltetovwn, 26“, March, 1341‘

Wed 1 , , _ I lbuwir," 1‘4 LANK Bills of Exchange, Charter Parties, Seaman’s ’ ",9 “If D Articles, Bills ofLudiqg, Mann-em, powers of Anome‘y, mm.

or“! 1 Sn oenas, Apprentices’ I d , ' . will. we...

tuled ‘An Act for the regulation of the Fishery

out previously desiring a conferenCe with the Coun-

regular course being, under such. circumstances, to deSIre a conference With the Council, and therein

so large a sum for‘their pay, is calculated to lower

Resolved, That the mode adopted by the House of Assembly, in disagreeing to the amendments made by the Legislative Council, to the Bill inti-

Reserves in this lsland,’ by rejecting the Bill \Vltll-

oil, to signify their disagreement to the said amend- ments, is contrary to Parliamentary practice, the

to state that they had disagreed to the amendments made by the Council to the said Bill, and then to have returned the Bill to the Committee of the Council, to afford the Council an opportunity of considering whether they would adhere t3 their amendments, and if not, whether they would agree to the Bill in its original form, as sent up by the House of Assembly. __

Reached, That the course pursued by the House ofAsscmbly in this matter, is not only wholly un- parliamentary, but an infringement upon the rights and privileges of the Council, and goes-to preclude the Council from ever venturing to make amendi- ments to any Bill originating in the House: of Assembly; and, if persisted in- by the Assembly, must have the eﬂbct of obliging the Council either to agree to measures, the details of which might be highly objectionable, or to reject them altogether; when, by. altering and amending such measures, they may be made beneﬁcial to the Colony.

The tbllowing document was submitted to the House, on the passing of the Appropriation Bill :—

Whereas in the Appropriation Bill passed by the House of Asembly, and now before this House, the sum of £30 is voted to each Member of the House of Assembly, and £60 to the Speaker, for his pay during the present Session, independent of travelling ex- penées, and which sums will amount in the aggre- gate to between £700 and £800: And whereas in our opinion the system Of permitting Members of the House of Assembly to appropriate to themselves

est instructions from my constituents, to vote no more

Your Petitioners crave leave to state, that from the oppres-

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than Ten Pounds in aid of any one school, and this Bill provides more than that sum. I object to it because in 1839, and 1840 the House published certain ,Reports of Educational Committees, recommending certain changes, and the Country was thus induced to believe that such was the settled opinion of the House, or at least that it in the main approved of said Report, and waited to learn if any part of the. changes there recommended was disapproved of by the country, and that the majority of the constituency had no objection to these Reports, and believed that the new Bill would be in conformity therewith, and that said new Bill has, in many, instances, gone diametrically opposite to said Reports.

7th. I object to this bill because, it must be evident that education will be forwIirded by Teachers remaining stationary at one school, for such term of years as the pupils of said school may. require to be taught. And , this was not only recommended in the Reports alluded to, but is sanctioned by far higher authority ; and there lS‘nO provision in this Act to encourage such system, nor to discourage both subscribers and Teachers from changes, originating in caprice, or a. prospect of a tri- ﬂing difference in salary.

81h. I maintain that, the through the inadver- tence of the member who dr the printed Bill, two principal clauses were omitted, in transcribing the copy which' was printed ;—yet that these clauses might casrly have been re—inserted, and thus the said printed Bill, would have been far more suitable to the constituency, and more beneﬁcial to the Teachers, and more easily understood by all concerned, than the present one.

10th. I maintain that. the allowances made _to the Board and the Visiter, have, no parallel in any of the neighbouring Colonies, and it seems, if not entirely in- consistent, yet very strange, that the smallest Colony in North America, crying out as to the oppression of the Claimants of townships, and the poverty consequent on that and other circumstances, should be able to pay for the most expensive educational system, and that this, coupled with other expensive apprépriations and mul- tiplication ofof‘l'ices must; in the minds ofthe impartial and intelligent among the British Senators, from whom chieﬂy we- have hopes of obtaining relief,give an appear-

ance of hollowness to. the complaints, of the Island.

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sive policy long practised by those who style themselves proprietors, (but who are, in reality, only the holders of claims to the Townships of this Island, which claims were long since liable to forfeiture,) your Petitioners have no rea- son to expect that thoseiudividuals will voluntarily acce such amount of compensation for these claims as would be in proportion to the value of the land, or in the power of the Colony to make good.

The House of Assembly beg to state, that the historyof the management pursued, in regard to these claims, is to be found at length in the Journals of the House of Assembly for 1833, 1834 and 1835, as Well as in the Resolutions of the. present House, and is concisely stated in the Report of the late Earl of Durham, and in the evidence thereunto append-

ed—particularly the letter of His Excellency the present Lieutenant Governor of this Colony.

And as the measures proposed by this House, for the,

settlement of the Colony, have been rejected by the Legis-

lative Council, and as, ﬁ'om the Resolutions passed this session by the House of Assembly, as well as in tlie sesswns

of 1839 and 1840, it will appear that there is no prospect of

their agreeing; and from the whole facts of the case, it is evident that the proprietary constitution of the Colony, like that of Carolina, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and all other proprietary Colonies, cannot either operate beneﬁcially, or amend any of the evils resulting from such constitution —aud much less, the principal evil, which is, the thraldom of the cultivators—and therefore we most humbly crave your honourable body to amend that principal evil, the source of so many others. _ Your- Petitioners beg again this time to state, that if the population of this Island be put, in respect of.the tenure of land, on an equal footing with the other Colonies, or on any fbotiug so thatthey may live free from perpetual barrnss- ment, they believe the country will, for the sake of such boon, effectually secured, at present forego any 0f well-foundedcomplaints against the undue Inﬂuence Whleh the Legislative Council _ex‘ercises, indregard to all other matters within the Colony—though, whde we}! are alleged to be grievous in so manylothcr (322111195, they are more as eciall llin and‘insu ting in i _ l ‘ our PYeIgiiiongrs, with the View of putting your honour-

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