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2 y F _ ' _ f - . teh' , .'33s I .. cr. "($43 '_, I . e l ' _,' V . r. b H'"" _ Jrr'r, r v I . , . '.'m m," v , "i 30'9- r "1"!!th Him . ' furnallould deiriitrthiraG"s'tt H, l ' . ' _ . ' g . _ question, the priosto which t1'd='gl,',l,',',1 the "mum m "A t1f'tiii,i,iFi2i,"f, 1 _ _.;' N , 'r iisuaded to reduce. he was - to say. de lands should be . matte of statute law and r n. isee.dtd. agood deal upon the townlhyp end ; . not or departmental or Erecutlveorder. 'That ' , " t individual lots. There was a vast variety of t view w" generally entertained; and during E' 'j r can A_ good deal depended Mao upon the . the debate in the House the Common. of ", f r "ryaiuatioes, ,elt.ioh, in moat CMN, . V" ,0" i i. rown Lands expressed himself in favour of ' f oerdingly defective from want of uniformity, , having timber licenses possess . certain Un. " . i It was a matter of time, but he hoped to ho ure extending for twenty or twenty". . able to trireet an improrunent. . l l are. TIMBER LICENSES. lion. Mi. SCOTT --That was always my Mr. R'IKERT moved the following res-ilu- . polio-y. trom-That the House do 580'" .ittstsif tttttt ', Mr. RYKERT replied that he thought the a Committee to consider the following re :olu honourable mummy; view was mg than i tions:--l. That hereafter no Yrye to out i that the 1urnbermen should have unlimited " . timber upon the Wild Iaruia trf tttig 1ryosye. ', license to run over all the wild lands of the . '. shall bergranted, tuitil "yhtiau' as the traid l Province, but that he would limit the li- _ lands shall have been explored and surveyed, ', I oentiate in the nantity to be ro- ' um . full report of. the urn-My sud y"ut1.V l,, duced yearly, and la contended it would, b. , ofthe, timber grownig thereon, together with q to the interest of the country to do " a description and nature of the soil, shall r He proceeded to read extracts from Tim ', have been hlod in the M1ice of t?" 1Jroam Him». to the silent that the Crown lands , 'aavdts Department, 2 .Tmt no li,:eutnss to ' should not have been sold in Muskoks with. ' i cut timlnr upon the wild lands of the Pro. I out the ooement of Parliament, and "gtte d ' , moo shall u granted (rautpt for tul eh Matt ' that the much more extensive sale of last no. i titles as shall be requircd by the actual out. I tour should not have been ell'ectsd without , tier, and tor local 1somm.otirtiett), until the the up" emotional Parliament. m mad Older in Council refPt'otP8 thts "no tel l an extract from a report of Mr. Allan Gil. _ have becn continned by tltis IIouau. l" moor. inwhich that gentleman at; 'trd that : _ rpealtel' remarked that this motion was . 'be best plan for the Government to pursue l k not open to tho objection that had been raised was to eurvev the territory before the timber against a previous motion of his, that he was _ limits were disposed of. That was an author l moving a vote of. want of oim.lid.ycs in hon ity that the Commissioner of Crown Lands . f, send men KWIQO; but be felt it to be vcry would not dispute, and yet be disposed of a l important at on the timber question and up; territo without any suns . a, i T tho disposition of our wild lands honoursbo argued that {he Gorernment Jll,'ii'l'laQ", , gentlemen could make up their minds to have those sections that are fit for settlement for . a detinito policy, and settlo the matter for settlers andpotdisposo of them tothe lumber.. ' ever. It was highly important that it should l . mem He read long mm" from Mr 8alur's I be mud by legislative enactment; it was, report, recommnnin . survey ot the terri . in fact: necessary that we should have de. tpry Be heEd that St, "may of the timbar l , clared 1n auch . manner what thrpo9 M limits was altogether uncalled for, and ri] c the Government was in regard to it, though certainly should not have been done until a ' ho d d not attempt to censure the Uounuvs- com hteaurvey of the territory had been sioner of Crown Lands for the course he had mad: and tho aanct'mn ot Parliament had id ' taken Yet it was important that the been iven FT . House should declare whether or not g . " l it was prepared to allow any Coat, Hon Mr. SCOTT said he was very gta _ ' miseioner to sell a large portion of that this question had been brought up. " our public domain. The whole country was was one that could not be too often discussed I alive to theim ortance of the question before on the floor of Parliament ' lie harlfor ' the House and) it would be nccosrsry for years sdvooamd an improved timber policy. I him to review the policy of the Guvorumont . and had his suggestions been adopted uftosn , - during last summer. So far as ho was con- l, I "are age, in his judgment the country would i M come that policy was not goth to be con- i ho worth a good many millions more trier it r demoed by him. It had been tie policy of l was. But it was one of those occasions all Governments for years to look to the set- which could never be ventilated in the old 'tleinrnt of the eountrr-that tfad been their Parliament of Canada. The Quebec Govern- i' ' am. He had beard honourable gontlcsnon merit were the met to adopt a fixed ground , _ say that the importation of one person to tho rent instead of compelling the licsntiate to T ' . 'y1urtry was equal in value to a hundred cut his timber on every berth. and the "or. , dollsrs;andifso much could be placed to ailment of Ontario followed in I868~69 i ', tho credit of the cotsntr'y---it our welfare That asnmove in the right direction bat . ' 1 could be so much increased by immigrants, it tll', oul y a small part of the policy he had ' I I it was desirable that there should be facili- advocated. Une po icy which he had advo~ l _ ties for encouraging thorn income here The catcd with the new of preservrng our ttat. first motion made in the Ontario Legislature I her was to extend the time to the huubera1sn r was upon this very question The feeling of for cutting his timber from a single year to a _ l the country now was that the settlement of lung series of years. subject, of course. t our wild lands should be well looked to, and to such regulations as to settle- that we ought to prevent waste ot our mint as the interests of the country timber, and that had been the policy of our required It took a long time to bring about. , _ Governments. It must also be borne in that change, but busily it was effected. It , mind that other countries were looking to . was adopted last session by the Dominion the some viow, and had restricted the whole- l, Parliament in regard to the lands in the l ' sale slaughter of the forests. Petitions had West it was a policy he had advocatcl '.. been sent to this House praying that the tiltcen years ago, and tho objrct of it was to [ 3 waste of tho public domain he curtailed. In induce the htmberman to husband his tim. [ 125m, whrn the whole question was l her The whole question of the management ihoroughly diecunaod in the old Par. of the timber lands was one which few men llamrnt, a Committee was appointed in this country uudoretood, aud the hon 5 to inquire into it, of which the pre. member for Lincoln, in discussing it, fur '; rent (Rimmiasionor of Crown Lands was a nishod an illustration of the truth of the ',' nwmbor. Evlirlelpco wins 1taken before than ' lino p-. i' Committee, is ie rvsu tet in a re )0" bein; in . t . . _ " ' .,. i', PM" rm to the Legisiataro, sinus that nfiu'l'i'édii'é'l'l'iriifo'llfi'rTL'l-'ifilli'lpmg." I there should be some enactment by which . . . . . 3 the rigtts of the settler should be distiu- " hon. friend had committed this mistake. . guished from those, of the iumbermen. The tie had fancied that tho pins lands and the '. mummy was asked whethrr the rights ol l lauds ttfor settlement wrro in separate sec 7 ' "one two artics would conflict. and it was tmo IV". what "'15 tho fact? thy tug- ' ' said that tlio rights of the settlers would be uattatiupl, tusscrted that there "at" V3" , matuially alluded so long as the Govern. few actions which contained valuable pine i ment allowed indiscriminate settlement upon landt, that did tmt also oontain . "U 09'" t the lands. The Committee recommended adorable portion of lands lit tor settlement. . that Caro should be taken to find out, by ox- ' the two kinds oI lurid micro so blended that it i pleations and survey}, what him; of land n was simply impossible to separate them ' ' was Lulu", being thrown open for settlement, ' From the observations of the hon. member V l so that settlers could not be placed upon land from Lincoln it Would seem that ho supposed l l not iit for Occupation ' that the' Government there Were large Much of pine lands. umi ', g t should endeavour to lay aside that land m separate blocks of lands for sottlomcnt. _ _ for attdnment, and that sought for by lulu _ Such was not the cam except in a very few _ l i borrow. The result of tho discussion in the ttrttantxtr Th way thes,, butde wcrtr "It" 1 k Ontario Legislature was in favour of thoview mingled it Would cost this country millions , expressed by the report of the Committee in to divide the lands and allot one particular , lb'oil. The policy of the late Commissioner part for tsetrleusetst and another part for lum _ i for Ontario was that tho Government's in. . crirg PWP'WN- He proceeded to gip, A tenets should be amply protected as well " several instances in which the pine [snub E l , the ttttleriiauul that policy was "Wicwmlnf adjoining lands that were settled had turned by the present Commissioner lt was then do- outta bo Very valuable. and had been pur- claredthat this House should express what chased by the neighbouring settlers, showing I ml policy WM upon this question] A gran that the timber lands and tho arable lauds ', _ deal of. fault was found that the policy in. were mingled together. In View of this fact, ' r" altered in regardto mineral lands, and Tris the way to promote settlement was to , , A (hour. of Pxg 24th, 1808, said that the Put the whole land under licenses, " 1 JRNirttry had . ris- tto ask that the Legisla. '__and then it would b. the interest or the _