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     . hp     THE CITY OF OHARLOTTETOWN 
     
    
   
   
    
     ON THE OCCASION OF ITS 
     
    
   
   
    
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     There was no fanfare when our Legisln- v I K I .i e  J . JQ ” , Q5, 
     
     tivc Assembly met in the year 1855-no 4 p v- i.   s  W -  p ' T 
     
    
   
   
    
     military parade or salute of guns to mark 
     
     the occasion. The permanent Garrison Force 
     
     , had been withdrawn the previous year. ,St. 
     
     TH! George's Battery was in process of being 
     
     711;; dismantled, and it was not until the follow- 
     
     M int; year, 1856, that a volunteer Infantry 
     
     Corps was formed and a guard of honour 
     
     could be supplied for the Lieutenant Gov- 
     
     ernnr. . It was a drab session outwardly, 
     
     with black frock coats predominating, and 
     
     an air of funereal calm that belied the im- 
     
     portance of the events that were shortly to 
     
     transpire within the legislative halls. 
     
    

    
     For "the 1855 session was important in 
     
     many respects. It passed bills authorizing 
     
     Free Trade with the United States and the 
     
     holding of s Province-wide Census. It in- 
     
     corporated the Bank of Prince Edward II- 
     
     land and the Mechaniu' Institute, establish- 
     
    
   
   
    
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     ed a Normal School, amended the pl'0Coofl- 
     
     lngs in controverted elections. and secured 
     
     compensation to tenant: for improvements 
     
     to wilderness laud. What it of chief inter- 
     
     est today, however, was the agreeinont 
     
     reached at the .1855 session that ”ior the 
     
     better protection, care and management of 
     
     the local interests of the inhabitants of the 
     
     Town of (lharlottotown. and for its Munici- 
     
     pal Government and improvement, it is us- 
     
     pedient that the said Town be incorporated." 
     
    

    
     Thus read the preamble to the ptatulu 
     
     authorizing the first municipal administra- 
     
     tion of the Island n'hi('h was formed on Kna- 
     
     ust 17. I835, when civic clections ucrr hciri 
     
     under the City of Charlottetown incorpora- 
     
     tion Act of that year. 
     
    

    
     On this centennial annivcrsaigx u' in- 
     
     corpomtion, the Gov:-rnmcut of Pruu-w Id- 
     
     uard island exicnds its warincsl ron:r;m.. 
     
     lalions to the Mayor and City (hunt-ii of 
     
     Cliarlottclown. and to all its citi7.cns. upv I 
     
     century of civic achim'cn1ent and upon CW 
     
     bright prospects for further piogicss and 
     
     dcvclopmcnt in this. the fair ('apiia! oi our 
     
     Province and Cradle of Coiilmicmimii. 
     
    
   
   
    
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     to ALL muons - A GDRIJIAL WELCOME to nun rnovmc: e All nuovm: sun 
     
     C All!) MAY vou" nnunu AGAIN soon . 
     
    
   
   
    
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     ' HON. A. W. MATHESON. 
     
    
   
   
    
     . . i V . h - . Premier, Prince Edward Island