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, E , use at the most heentiiul lend t I tttt upon It, ",ilil'illl . I wee Mllllllllrlllllll ' . "Mr I i 010 0'0? ""04 Ttpon. But there certelniy or not, end ecquire the right oi Man. ir" no such lend in the district he hsd re- ; He thought she sooner the Government ferred to. 11" hoped, however, menu?" _ brought down their licy the better. It wee I would be tehen to preserve its timber. He i . pity the House hTl'll their Bill before " ueiieved more timber wee destroyed where' new. The subjects mentioned in the it grew, by fires tuid hy Waite. than wee ' eddress were well receivedby both sides of tak W oat o, the eonntry. 1 the House, and the address wee voted unenl- Mr. COOKBURN, ia reply tr, thgf ucusiy. end he must bring . cherge egsinst member tor Ottews, sold thet honour. ', the Government that they had not trees- ! ebie gentlemen might be right mitted that eddress to His 1ilrottl1tney, They . " to the pine lend in the Ottawa mustheve kept it looked up in one at their : district. But he knew that the immense desks. for, It His Excellency had reoeived quantities ot pine timber brought down' to the eddress. he must surely heve eokuowl- Toronto by the Northern Railway. and edged " before BOW, which wee superior to the Ottewe timber, Mr. SMITH, (North Leeds) thought it csme from e district which wee e good wisest would involve . good deei cf delay and country. In reply to the member for Lin. expense to get all the information nixed for cola, he would sey that tholumbermer. might In this motion. It wee for the Government out the timber the first winter it had been to bring down their scheme. and, it they did 1aosted to e settler. but after the 3igt Hey not " the "no time furnish enough Intor. tur oould " 35011 " leest "" the metion to ensble the House to deal intelli- regnietion ot the Dsptsrtrnsnt-, but in the ' gently with it, It would then be for oesee to which the member for Lincoln l the House to teke the matter into referred, the settlers might have been . its own hends. He hoped the interests ot imposed upon. settlers would be proteottsd, " egeinst the tsir HENRY SW NI thought the member lumbermen. In meny ceses the iambermen icrLincoin Wes qattejtuttfiod in mehing this got per-ties, celled bushqngorg, to go and motion. It the house wee to debete intelli. inure affidavit, that such end such . lot wee gently ttte meesures of the Government, not fit for settlement, end the settler bed to promised In the Speech from the Throne, retire. The system which had preveiled led with reisrence to the settlement ot wild tofavoaritim, and often to de muight per- lends, end homesteed exemption, nothing jury. l eoaltt tte mm mm"? tUn that . they Mr. McDALL (South Noriolk) "in that In ' should be iniormed ot the condition ot the his Riding there wee . oonaiderab1e emount country, into which it wee ptopeed. to ot whit , pine land, which " one period wee serd the settlers. Be wee eireid thot not thought fit tor cultivetion. It had been his honourable friends on the 'i'reesury sold for " low " . dolier per mm, and he Benches, when they put these two popular had known persons in recent yeers .011 the B'",,',',','"):?,', thr. utotttlt ot IN Excellency, timber etending on it for 890 and 8100 en id not inhy consider the diffiottity they sore; end now, when these lends were con- would go into, He had tutdeNtood thr, vertcd into fume, It Wes found that the Premier to "r thet lt w" the intention ot tictat white wheat produced in the Province in Government to give free grente of land, l was grown on them. His experience, there So indeed It wes stated in his Excellency'e l fore was that the white pine lends were fit speech. But ho had yet to leern that e free for 'GiiiiGiii purposes. As regsrded the grant ot und, "" tp bet ttt ot hsat0, modeoi disposingoi our public 1andihawou1d keeping the timbe- beck from the settler. rueke ' has ttrant to the ectusl settler of A iree grant shouldr entitle the holder to ell halt of the lot he wee to occupy, siter occupy- the timber on u. , fe btvt "on tue meisu- Ing it continuously for five yours end [inking choly Co"eqi101Ceri whica tysd, rusultad, certain improvements, he should receive a when settlers round the: their Lend: We?" on free patent, and that peteut should be a . timber limits previously Krauted, ""1th l hornrqtoM---sed the other half ot the lot he 'i thsy "w, who., ttyy w"". engaged ic, ounld- , should bo snowed to purchese within five ing their houses, (nee.- perzivs map in, mean yeers, at $1.25 per sore. He would alto let ITrtrt vt,' attd. "31,2; t,1iel /t, I? l the settler choose for himseli his own lot. .n.. m recurrent rt en o settlers new»? from the colonization roads. uhed,',,ee1gt1pe,tu1,t,1ttl'uwdt', He agreed Pei lt w" the Ldmy ot the ernmont measure Wee before the house, end Government odetermlne what lends were . , , lit for settlement end what should be reserved w" only iotiliabU bsceauge theyhad nothtog . - . ' ' r, d else to de. He thought the Government "Y P,1tr",y?if ""9"". Ttvo roernment should heve hed their measure before the sico_Ouaid on: l , ir. tbat they mado such h m till! The hed steted thit they conditions; win the lumberrnun tint the dicing; went the 'ih'eu'IL'l and were i,?,,e.e.',yi'-,'i'tlf1 no: to wasted. Jj,":, 1t'.ortisy. nady to proomd to bdelness; but that the Unsure. in ftiti. , sin} 3. 'lt"', in... 31° daisy which usuelly occurred et the opening 'r "" Il IU'] was 1: n " f o S W e i cie session would be obvieted by the oppor. ireevgrsni. "t,tlera the right .0. f1ometttrad trinity tho adjourmntrnt would give them to exemption. The country expected . greet trams their mum". printed. He had hoped s I deal more then that. A: " hon. member thet lhll promise would have bean fulliNd, ' , oppositehed remerked, homestead exemption aod tint the house would heve been " use ' boom .tole grented to every poor end randy to proceed to business before now. ' hono" men in the oitUtt and toirrrq " well Hon. J, S. MCDONALD ssid the mounres u the country. And, it the Government ot which he bed glvesn notice on Mondey. said they were to meke " exemption in beiore the adiourtunent, were printed, and . l "mm ot the men who went on crown lends, others would soon be. The Commissioner of . . A' 1 he got for nothing, while they would Drown Lends would ghrts notice tc-morrcw ot yf:/t.r. the, men qrho paid for hia land, the his resolutions with reference to free grants, entioipsticne ot the country would be dipap- may, homesteed low, and " much inform!- pointed. (Beer, beer). It " '"" to heve ira"G it wee possible for the Government to . . homesteed exemption law, let " been in give baaring on these importent questions, feet and not " neme. As regarded the would he brought down. diffiotmr of furnishing correct Information Th ti th reed ta, shout the quantity of public lends we hed fit ° mo on w" on ag f0: "ttgate, 'St,', hie Pt time tl MUNICIPAL AND ASSESSMENT LAWS. " . crust en, " t won , - perheps be better that the House Mr. RYKLB'l' seld he would now renew . ! should not] islete on the sub' ct until we the motion he mede yesterdey for the ep. : d teed °igull hat Jet ' 1 d paintmrnt of e Select Committee to consider ' a: 15:! at o dyi w . "lt,"?, ll d,',',',,' lar, tho various amendments proposed to be mede t toh th ur '99." tt $b _ sorry in the Assessment and Municlpel Lews of l "' e member ior West Hestrngs give thi Province durin the present session. m so melencholy . stetement " to the Besiings he; increes ed the gum)" ot the Committee,' 2,% m mu only "r that Ihtt Gttearn. although he still thought that e Committee 3 Sigh; Tl by; must :1 evettbe en d"tt . of 9 or 11 would do let more service then s *oimw I',', "lat,', Wt h " m t a I Committee ot 19 or 21. no repudleted the h. toes th t an. 1',"il,',",'d,u e wee! [ides thet, in the list " " first proposed, of le , , . ' roug e w o e course T he had endeavoured to make it in the interest 0 C'olottimtton Roed,he hed never known l 1 hi k this in] no: d sthi I tt Th ; IO'MYWW- m didnott n WMth a ' g e a a " r ' co: on. e I , matter into which petty ooraideratlons reeeon pp, that in linking that road, they ' . should intrude When the time ceme for never 1""de to put a man on niat. that lhim to teke his position iii his party, the would not support him. Another paint of lheme " d the country would beer from importance wee, ihet, when Government l hi ll noluded b moving the eppoint- o , decided on their pointy " tothnurlhurnrtra, l ai. e or y _ meut ot the committee to consist ot Messrs. they should make provision icrihe settlement , W od 0 ' MoKellsr Gre- i of MOM lends within the timber limits. Carling. 0 , anNron, ' hem, (York) Currie. 1?ltaWnqgtr.tty Gibbons, l! I An Bon. Mmrsmr--lrut is done now. Portico, Graham, (M8,) TlFiglas lioCell, Sir HENRY "nw-" wee not done (Norfolk) Ocyne.-;Greeley. cheod, Berber, l 'dll,',; m 2tg tet",',',,', of our? l:vlnfoh. Galbraith, Perrier, end the mover. w n . se " wen upon e o e wee . cKELLAR leeid 'es he understood t 1l,i'i'li','si,ii,i':'e,i2'l,'ii' e",",: dl", " our»... of 'ho UiLiiitii .. not l . wen w pe _ , tslitilailti': when . men found . good lot, he Alt I merely - to oonslder_ such ml" " migh 'h h