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No. 43.

Colonial Legislature. HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY. W epNespay, Jlst March, 1858. PUBLIC ACCOUNTS. (Continued.) Hon. COL. SECRETARY.— After having again pointed- ly adverted to what he considered, and what, he said, the hon.

member for Princetown (the Hon. T, H. Haviland) had de-| be, the great inpropriety of charging the amount |

elared to of the Debentures, £20,550, against the Colony, especially

whilst denying it credit for £15,000 due on sales of lands; |

and after having also again stated that, by excluding the £20,550 of Debentures, and also the £15,000, due on sales of lands, from the General Account of the Financial State of the Colony, in aecordance with the views respecting it, entertained by the hon. mover of the amendment, (Hon. T H. Haviland) himself, the balance against the Colony would amount to little more than £9000 ; the hon. gentleman further

—45403 acres, to be valued at no more than Gs. an acre,

thev would in the account have to be set down at £13.620, | ~ ’ ’

but it was well known that 10,000 acres of these lands would bring 10s. an acre, or £5,000, which alone would be more

than sufficient to meet any demand which the vendors of the |

Worrell Estate can possibly establish against the Government,

and the remaining 85,403 acres at 6s, per acre, equal to

£10,620, together with the £15,022, now due on account of sales of lands, (exclusive of the interest thereon,) together | £25,642, would much more than extinguish the whole debt

due upon the Public Lands, besides making fall provision for their manavement in the mean time. The hon. gentleman then said: “The Special C wmittes have, in their R port, pointed out a discrepancy between the amount of Public Imnds Bonds, which, as they state, by the Commissioner’s

return, were,

year’s accounts, they appear to amount only to the sum of 7752. Ts. 1d. due, and 602. Os. 53. paid; adding. by way of

explanation, that “they find, on enquiry, the rest of those Bonds were cancelled some time since under the provisions ofthe Land Purchase Act.” Now that this matter may be fully understood by its being placed in the clearest light, it is necessary to remark that the former Commissioner gave

eredit for them for the amounts severaily, within the Bonds, |

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amounts origin-

so set forth, had in many instances, been con-

set forth as due thereon; whilst, in fact, the ally severally

siderably reduced, by payments, made on account thereof, | 7 y Ppa ’

either to the Trustees or Agents of the Worrell Estate, or to the individuals who became its purchasers, and who ever ally sold it to the Government ; but that these payments had been made was quently, the Bonds were severally entered, by him, at their jall original amounts, to the credit of the Public Lands. It having however, at length, been made to appear, by the pro- duction of receipts, that many of the individuals who had given their Bonds had made payments, as I have just stated, on account of them ; now demanded by the Government, although no credit h been given them for such payments, by endorsements on t Bonds, or in the Books handed over to the Government ; the amountswhich had severally been paid by them were, first, duly credited, to the several parties ; and as they wished to become purchasers, they were readily agreed with, and |

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Worrel!, for lands. at from 30s. to 40+. an acre; but the Go-|

parite the benefit derived from the purchase of the Estate, gave them | their lands at 10s. or 128, 6d. an acre, according to the price | of the other lauds in their several localities, and, giving them | their Deeds accordingly,“eancelled their Bonds: hence the| great reduction in the value of the Bonds in the Public | Lands Office. Tire hon, and learned member for Charlotte- town (Hon. E. Palmer) assumes that the sum of 6O000Z. is positively duc, by the Government, to the vendors of the Worrell Estate, on account of their purchase of that Estate ; but the fact, is not so, as that gentleman ought to know very weil. The real state of the case, is that, by the agreement between the Ciovernment and the vendors, the former were to keep back 6000/. of the purchase money, as a security for | any deficiences as to the number of acres, which the whole) was stated to contain, which might be discovered on a resur-| vey, and on account of the fishery Reserves, estimated at | 600 acres, and also for lands, the settlers on which would | not attorn. The whole Estate was, accordingly, surveyed by | the Surveyor (ieneral, and a great deficiency was found on| the quantity sold to the Government ; and, besides the greater | part of the settlers on Lot 66 refused to attorn. The vendors disputed the correctness of the survey which showed the de- ficiency ; and referred the investigation of it to Mr. Duncan MeLean, than whom, I believe, a man more competent to | decide thereon, cannot be found in the Colony. Of the cor-} tectness of the Surveyor General's report of the deficiency, | this gentleman, after havidg satisfied himself of its truth, gave | believe, « certificate to his employers. The vendors, | however, had previously offered to accept 20002. and a recon- | veyance of Lot 66, from the Government, in full of their | claims on account of the sale of the Worrell Estate, provided | Mr. MeLean’s ; port shouid be confirmatory of the Surveyor | General's Report, The Deed for the recouveyance to them | of Lot 66 was ceordingly made out ; and, on a Saturday it) Was signed by tne parties thereto; and the Debentures, which were to be given, to the vendors, for the 20007, were to be | sigued by His | xcellency, the Lieut. Governor, on the Mon-| day following ; butgwheo the Monday morning arrived, it | was found they had repudiated their owa act of the Saturday | previous, with reference to the-business ; and, except that they have threatened the Government with a chancery suit, sree eee neat eee ae concerning tl e6 WOOL ieee d poe cts : ne venmaiak to fe wa a : mn Be m na ue, ry the Government, so! the Worrell Estate, are nothing Jess than a

se an ttan statement of the case ; and I think that, un- | ; 1on. and learned member for Charlottetown shail be | wi to establish a very different que, Which, however, L may, | “ry sately, defy him to do, he must abandon his assertion ‘at the vendors of the Worrell Estate have a claim, on ac- ove on re Gusooirnans for 3002. a year, the inter=| as aa mth about which I have been speaking. The earved member for Charlottetown (the Hon. EK.

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al s ‘ alien han . ‘ slo mer) has also been pleased to accuse the Government of em- n if .¥r< . ‘ . of ne Mr. Joba Doirant as an occasional Superintendant

ublic Works, not so much on account ofany public benefit, cules ae oo is services, in that capacity, Ys ON ace, toa or their ready, pliant aud convenient political

; is pllancy and subservience to the Government, |

last year, valued at £1,404, whilst by this |

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3, over the amounts |

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re-| have expended in the purchase of township Janis, to the ex- Mary of those Jdonds had been given, to Mr.} tent of 84,000 acres ; and, from the state of tenant bondage

s participators tu | independent freeholders.

\itaions which they wil directly in our favor, that no misrepresentations which the

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| chairman, together with

| vices—were, on two distinct motions,

|he, however, gave no proofs last Session, when, because they | objected to allow him as much as he thought proper to charge |for his services, with respect to the Oyster Bed Bridge, he, at once, kicked up his heels against them, and petitioned this House for the amount, 12/., which the Government ‘thought ought to be deducted, as an overcharge, from his account. This fact afforded no proof, either that the Govern- }ment wished to convert Doirant into a political agent by | granting undue favors to him; or that he fancied he might, onany such score, presume to demand from them more than, on a just consideration of his public services, he would be found entitled to. ‘on~ghe opposition side of the House, seemingly

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| . . - gs : : ment appear unjust im their dealings, insisted that the Govern-

‘ment ought to have complied with Doirant’s demand, expressed their approval of his having been engaged in the

_eapacity in which be had been employed by the Goverument, | .{acknowledged the wisdom and ultimate economy of such

superintendence, and highly extolled Mr. Doirant, as aman

| especially well qualified to discharge the duties of such an ap-| observed that were the unsold lands—the goods on the shelf’!

pointment; and, in their eagerness to vote in support of the | prayer of his petition, almost threw each other down as they flocked to the Bar for that purpose. But now, having a dif- ferent object in view, their present aim being to establish a charge of extravagance and_ political jobbing or profligacy, against the Government; instead of, as in the last Session,

with respect to the same individual and the same service, of injustice, in withholding what was due to him on account of

that service; they turn round with, the most glaring and most surprising inconsistency, and abuse and vilily us for | having done the very thing which, last session, they maintained }it was our bounden duty to do. And, just as this and every

jother distinct or particular charge of useless or undue expen- |

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| diture of public moneys, which hon, members in opposition |

‘have, from time to time, preferred against the Government, 'have been fully answered and repelled ; so may we, by a fair comparison of the amount of the public debt, as we found it | when we came into power, and the especial outlays by which jit was occasioned; with the amount of public debt, as it at

yehar ah}; ane? » #hu ines “ - ‘ } neither establish, against us, the aceusation, so often repeated

| lavish and reckless expeiiditure; nor honestly deriy that the | general and larger appropriations of public moneys, which have been voted by the majority of this House, have been | for the general good of the pcople. When we came into | power, the public debt amounted to £28,000; and £11,500 thereof being the amount of Treasury notes, issued for the erection of publie buildings, they left usto discharge. The revenue certainly has been much greater since we came into | power than ever it was before ; and so also has been the ex- penditure. These two fucts admitted, the oaly questions concerning them, to be answered, are: | or even over expenditure of revenue, been wisely and justifiably | made, and wiih a direct view to the furtherance of the public | well-being? and has it evidently tended to thatend? To | prove that it has been wisely and jastifiably made, it is only necessary to enumerate the objects for the attainment or ad- vancement of which the chief appropriations of public moneys kave been made. These are education, and the con-

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of education—-the greatest boon which can be conferred upon a country—we have expended £54,000; and £20,550 we

we have thereby already raised hundreds to the position of That the results of such expendi- ture are not of an elevating and progressive character, none but a few factious, disappointed and ambitious men, and, per-

On that occasion, however, hon. members"

that, they had met with an opportunity of making the Govern- |

present stands, and the causes of it; shew that they can |

by individuals of their party out of doors, of a system of

Has our expenditure, |

° > ; . > . | havin: : vos a Arp hz j "pa Lev at 099 version of leaseholds into freeholds. For the advancement | 9#¥!22 been put, it was declared “the Ayes have it ;” and | the paragraph was struck out accordingly,

Doirant’s petition, lastsession, for a further allowance, on ac- count of his services, in addition to what had been paid to him by the Government, briefly exp!ained that he and others, on his side of the House, had indeed, last session, admitted the public utility and benefit of occasionally employing a special daily superintendant of the progress of important public works ; and, besides, that they had also supoorted the prayer of -Doirant’s petition, for remuneration for his services; yet only so far as they had been retidered in compliance with the requests or in- stractions of the Government, and so far only-as the remuner- ation claimed was fair and reasonable. In all that, however, the hon, and learaed gentleman said, they were very far from expressing their approbation of the employmert of special or extra superintendants of public works, in cases like that of , Prince-street Wharf, with respect to which no further super- intendance, than what might very well be given by the regular and sufficiently salaried Superintendant of Public Works, could be required; andnetther did they express themselves, relative to the amount of daily pay. which ought to be allowed to any ‘such occasional superintendant as Doirant, in such a way as could justify its being inferred, that they would approve of the exiravagent allowances which had been made, by the Govern- /ment, to Doirant for hs services. ‘Those allowances had in- deed beeu so extravagant as fully to warrant a suspicion, that \they had been augmented for other and very Cifferent services ; (yan those specified in the public accounts.

|. Mr. HAVILAND briefly spoke to the same effect ; and, ‘referring to the Journals of last session, showed, thereby |that there had been no division respecting Mr. Doirant’s petition, which, on motion that Mr. Laird, who presented it, have leave to withdraw it, was withdrawn without opposition. | Hon. COLONIAL SECRETARY.—Yes, that is the _motion when it is not intended that the prayer of a petition | shall e rejected ; hut the object of the opposition, although they were frustrated in it, was to force the House to come to a division on the prayer of the petition.

Hon. COLONIAL TREASURER.—I remember very well that it was the wish of the House that Mr. Doirant should be paid; and that, with the understanding that the 'Government would reconsider his claim, the petition was |withdrawnp. And, if L mistake net, the hon. member for | Prineetowa (Hon. D. Montgomery,) earnestly supported the prayer of the petition; highly extolling Mr. Doirant’s ‘architectural skill, particularly with respect to the construc-

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i tion of bridges. [| Mon. Mr. MONTGOMERY.—What I said was, that I ‘believed Doirant was a very proper person to be employed |in the superiniendanee of the erection of wharfs and bridges ; ladding that New London Bridge, which was erected under this superintendance, was an excellent bridge, and as such imight be adduced as an evidence of his superior practical i knowledge of such works. I also said that when Govern- iment employed him, as the superintendant of the erection of juny public work, they should pay him according to the real | value of his services,

Mr. COOPER.— When it is found necessary to employ a daily ins;ector of a public work, the contractor, and not {the Government, should, in my opinion, be made to pay for \ the inspeetion. | Hon. COLONTAL SECRETARY then moved that that paragraph of the Report which has reference to the moneys paid to John Doirant, for his services in superintending the erection of Oyster Bed Bridge, and that of Prince Street Wharf, in Charlottetown, be struck out; and the question

HOUSE

Mr. Perry, the chairman of the committee of the whole

House, reported the Report of the Select Committee on

Public Accounts, as amended and agreed to in committee of the whole House ; and moved its adoption by the House.

Hon. T. H. HAVILAND.—Mr. Speaker, I move that

the whole of the Report, just reported as agreed to in com-

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haps, a few of their blinded partizans will deny; but, for- tunately for us, the Public Accounts, which are now before | us, will soon be before the public themselves; and the reve- | make will tell so absolutely and |

most artful, acute and zealous of our political enemies can make, will have power to shake the faith of the publie in their plain and truthful statements. They will see by them

i that, although, when we came into power, the public debt

was, as hey will remember, £28,000, (and, notwithstanding our amazing outlay of almost £66,000, for the attainment of the two great objects which | have just named, besides other great and most serviceable outlays), it is now only £29,870 ; or rather, if stil] more correctly stated, by deducting the £20,550 paid for the Worrell Estate, (as Mr. Haviland has admitted that amount ought to be), no more than £9,320! With these convincing facts before the people, we can have nothing to fear from their judgment, how much soever our political opponents may assail and misrepreseut our policy.

Mr. Y¥U.—AN that the Hon. Co). Secretary has said in favor of the working of the Land Purchase Act, is mere balder- The statements concerning the Worrell Estate, which

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are now before us, disprove almost every word of it.

i statements shew that, whilst money. for the purchase of wiiat

they call Public Lands, was disbursed by thousands, and ought

'to have been returned by hundreds ; the expenses, consequent

upon the extravagant mismanagement of the property, have been so great that,on the whole, they cannot shew, to the real eredit of it,a balance ef much more'than £30. Yet, according to the assertions of the Hon. Col. Secretary, the property 1s making the most satisfactory returns, and is reptdly itself. He might as well te!! us, and think to persuade us, that the moon is made of green cheese; for the fact is, and he must know it too, that the speculation has been, as respects the country at large, a complete failure ; and that, in reality, it would have been better for the country, if, two years ago, the lands had been gratuitously bestowed upon the petitioners for free farms and the Surveyor General, ;

The question was then put on the amendment, submitted by the Hon. T. H. Haviland; and the committee divided thereon :

Ayes—tlons. I’. H. Haviland, &. Palmer, F. Longworth, D. Montgomery, Messrs. Yeo, H. Haviland and Pope—7.

Nays—Hons. Co!. Secretary, Col. Treasurer, the Speeker, J. Wightman, E. Whelan, R. Mooney, Messrs. McGill, Laird, Muirhead, Cooper, Clark, Perry, Dingwell, McDonald and Menro— 15.

So the amendment was lost, and the original paragraph agreed to. ‘ “The account of the Commissioner of Public Lands with the Government, as set forth in the report, having heen read by the the observations concerning it; the last two—the first of which bas reference to the amount paid to the Clerk of the Legislative and Executive Councils, for his services for the past year, and the other which has reference to the moneys which have been paid to John Dotrant, for er intending the erection of Qyster Bed Bridge and other ser-

: weaned bw hi severally Secretary, for ressons previously assigned by him, severally

struck out of the report, without any manifesta'ion of pee Hon. B. PALMER, with reference to what had been sa by the Hon. Col.

hon. members ef the opposi

Secretary, respecting the support given, by tion, to the prayer of Mr. Joha

mittee of the whele House, with the exception of tbe last two paragraphs, be struck out ; and that the one which I have read be substituted for it.

‘state of the Colony, charging against it all debentures issued under the authority of 16 Victoria, cap. 18, for the purchase of Township Lands in this Island, and all Warrants and Treasury Notes afloat, and giving credit for cash in Treasury ‘and Bonds for Deties in Treasurer’s and Attorney General’s hands, and amount of Sales of Public Lands, to have been at ‘the end of the financial year as foilows:—

GovernMENT OF Prince Epwarp Istanp.

Dr. ‘To Warrants unpaid 31st Jan'y, 1858, £30,594 1 94 | Treasury Notes, 11500 0 9 | Debentures issued under 16 Vic. cap. 18, 20,550 0 0

£62,644 1 94

‘To balance against the Colony Slst January, 1857, Expenditure 1857,

£22,808 14 0 48,552 12 5}

£71,326 6 df Cr. £25,156 13 03 3,067 2 11 4550 1 43 aa. ks 4,052 13 34

By Bonds in Treasury, Bonds in hands of the Att’y General, Cash in Treasury, — Bonds in Public Lands office, Due upon Deeds issued, Due by Land Commissioner’s Books, but Deeds not yet issued, and on : 938 acres of which no deposit has yet been paid, 10,174 0 &% Balance, 14,868 3 33 £62,044 1 By Receipts at Treasury year ended 31st Janaary, 1858, Due as above at Public Lands Office, Balance as above,

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£41,456 2 15,022 1 1 14,868 -8 33

£71,326 6 5} The Revenue for the past year, as compared with the pre vious one, will be seen by the following Table :—

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Sc“ace Epo £2e 8S Be Tmpost 130,091 2 03130,822 2 72) 731 O 6} Light, Anchorage, 74418 63, 857138 8) 11215 1; | Land Assessment) 4,845 4 6) 4,626 0 4 219° 4 2¢ | Post Office 1,132 0 0) 1,198 0 0; 66 0 0 | Licences 284 10 O 325 10 0 41. 0 0 | Fees Sec.’s Office 216 8 10 198 8 5 18 0-5 “ Registrar’s 342 15 6 349 2 8 213-3 Customs i371 9 7117 0 11g Juries ie oS 4512 0 24 0 0 Fines, Penalties m.7 6 109 19 0 2611 6 Public Lands 1,863 18 43) 1,936 138 6}. 73 0 13 Crown Lands . 269 2 4 371 12 .74; 102 10 33 Intereston Bonds; 372 9 53) 33110 4 4419 1% W barfage 19 13 2 8° & 11 7 9 Head Money 37..2-9 29 4 0 71 Sales of Books 98 14 5 924; 8 71 Wrecked and un- claimedgoods 317 1 341010} 3013 9 Aent of Warren Farm 2715 6 27 15 6 Return Land As- | sessment Fees oS i°< sis | Surcharges 040 319 04 315 04 Seizures 913 6fF 13 1M 611 64 ) Sundries 138 16 0 138 16 06 es me enti | nin pete 40,662 16 93 41,456 2 OF 1244 11 043451 5 94

The Revenue of the past year’exceeds that of the previous year by the sum of £793 5s. 3d., and may be accounted for by the additional impost of 1} per cent. levied under the Act of 20 Victoria, cap, 1, but the general importation of dutiable articies has been less in ameunt than those of the previous year.

The following ‘Table shews the comparative Expenditure for various purposes for the two past years, with Increase and Decrease :-—

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| Mr. PERRY.—Being. in the Chair of the Comnittee,}; Vee oo ee ee | ee ee | when the hop. member for Princetown (Hon. T. HL. Haviland) ee Exeenpirure blah ielesail Ivcrease | Drorease jadverted to the fact that, at first, 1 was in favor of “the age Pe eEe |S Pees Le ee jamendment” proposed by him, in the Special Committee, | —_. —-- —-

and the adoption of which, by the House, as the Report, he a a. £ ea @i #084 £24 | has just now moved ; but that I, afterwards, voted agaiust it ; Soe ee a = 9, 9898 7 7 922 ~8 9 1674 13 1G vand not then being at liberty to reply or explain, I beg | Lopiclature 2877 5 8 | 2 79 6 8 " ’ 9719 0 |leave now to be permitted to state why L changed my opinion | Salaries 4214 5 43) 426710 O| 63 4 7} }concerping the proposed amendment. At first, I was not ae a 7 Ss 4646 2 111877 1 215 2 6h | aware that, by a provision of the Land Purchase Act, with | Tiakea, loca con 13 93| 1120 17 7 . 119 16 6 | respect to all purchasers of any portions of the publie lands, | Cor.’s Inquests 106 14 03] 159 9 33) 3215 34 |—-with respect, not ouly.to those to whom Deeds have been ae Agriqntbe, 1216 12 21 1900 0 0 “ . issued, but also with respect to those who, by the payment | Prov. Building 659 610} 88513 1 8 3 9 |of any instalments whatsoever, on account of their pur- | Govt. House 517.17 6 | 46715 8 4 50 110 |chases, have thereby confirmed them, although their Deeds | prardsat Health oo - eee ee 0 0 |may not have been issued,—the Government have power, in Frere face we 00) 200 m ;case of their non-fulfilment of their contracts or agreements, | Jails 1122 14 44) 1188 2 4 65 7 113 | with the Government, to proceed against them as defaulters, | wag tere i os ~ : on y' 2 819 8 297 16 64 | exactly in the same manuer, and to the same extent, as land- | ieee ER

agents proceed against defaulting tenants by distraint for | tions 423 18 53, 471 2 83]. 47 4 3 harrears of rent; and that, therefore, in all such cases, the | Fost ‘nee e one 17 7 8h 939015 eb 117 2 10 | Government have power to attach and sell the goods and} eee 4336 2 Sa 1703 3 al 2632 18 11 ‘chattels of defaulting purchasers. When 1 was made aware | Military 1110 0} 11 10 0 lof this stringeut provision of the Land Purchase Act, with Ler an ion ae 4s. = st = : a |respect to-all purchasers of public tands, I certainly saw good | te 676 15 0 | 691 7 61 Mk 6

reason for changing my opinion rezarding the proposed | Landwaiters and | i lamendment; and I, accordingly, voted against it, in a ee ao z ° ae 2 ; aa = . |Special Committee, and in favor of the Report originally | cial Disburse- . ;

drawn up; as | shall now do in the House. | mente 128 8 0} 19410 04 56 0 0} | The Hon. the Speaker then put the question on the m Otion | Bears and Loup- 10 810 @ ‘of the Hon. T. H. Haviland; and the House divided thereon :— | memetedll Com- , r F

Ayes—Hons. T. H. Haviland, E. Palmer, F. Longworth, | pany 520 9 5 | 520 9 5 |D. Montgomery, Messrs. Yeo, Haviland and Pope—7. | Biection } 3716 2; 3716 2! Nays—Hons. Col. Seeretary, Col. Treasurer, J. Wight- Ferry Bouse, eh ing 0 0/156 0 O ‘man, R. Mooney, E. Whelan, Messrs. Perry, Macdonald, | Reepty. Treaty |MacGill, Muirhead, Laird, Cooper, Macintosh, Clarky} Duty retamed| 96 7 5) 9 J | 1. 1 | 8 7 5 | Dingwell, Munroe—1o. | Miscellaneous | 36815 53] 272 2 103] 24611 7 |

he amendment proposed by the Hon. T. H. Haviland, i} having thus been negatived ; the Hon. the Speaker put the |

g gatived ; E f | question on Mr. Perry’s motion, that the Report, as amended |

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in C a eete 1 ' aah The Light Duty Revenue from the year 1852 has been, l« rr A 7 ' 2 pe 202) Te ‘ ‘ ) — > es P and agreed to in Committee of the whole ifouse be received | + the different Ports, as follows:—[For Tuble under this !and adopted by the House ; and, on a division of the House!) 04 coe Amendment

thereon, as above given, reading Ayes for Nays, aud Nays’ :

> The Committee remark that the amount of Light and An- \for Ayes, the Report was adopted accordingly.

ichorage Duty collected at Georgetown is larger than that | var ENE March 30, 1858 | collected at all the Ports on the North side of the Island ; and WeonespaY, March 30, 1000. ‘consider that, from the number of American vessels calling REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC ACCOUNTS. into those Ports being larger than the number calling at Three ~ Your Committee appointed to examine and report on Public Rivers, the amount of duty, if properly collected and accounted Accounts have, after a careful examination of the same, found for, should exceed the amount at present paid in; and recom- all the Accounts submitted to them correct, with the exception mend that the Government take such measures as will secure lof such errors as the Auditors of Public Accounts have the prompt collection and correct return of Light and An- already remarked upon.

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