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Lm " ' , _. PC "3.6.5:" :5 .21" Tr' "Tfrr?, 'll' '1T'1?'5l.lll!P'rl!8, ~ . a _ 'Fr" P. l . C? .- w. _ y _ r , " ' if. 's, » V t, _ TF. ." .1 V . {1*}, full inhratinetiiu now "l'svin' hid _. Lti?, if --.' .", A; '. I' ' J . nptbeon mounted-to the House, Sl g jay! at" , ', t tity himself against any charge of de- " . lay in bringing down the, enchants" In for the year. on. gentlemen would see " I the amount of labour which wu r---------- involved after the close of the year before all I the public accounts could be prperly Int. .' al8ll8 MtllitElIt--8tMllll SESSIOI. weed and drawn up in deiiil, sent-to, the! li printer, the printing revieed, and the ac- l ' ixuntpiaced before hon. members in a cor- Fiunsr, Feb. M, gingham 'l'lt'dhg,t, dbl? S,',',,:' reeks, . , e oug , con any up on or, as a The Speaker took the chair at 3 o sloth. short one, and not more than reasonable, an d PETITIONS. that 'rc',1,t','f' of 1351i? could beImade , . . . a sinst imee or . apartment. u re. Tho following INtitior" were presented t gird to the assembling of the Committee to Mr. McMamur-0t Tomhip Cmncil, whom the public account- no amt. he said praying that no part of the township shall be . that Committee had been assembled for some , incorporated in the town of Orangeville, time, and that they had. now been engaged I Mr. Lauder-Of the township ot Euphrasin, for eevcn or eight days in n careful erumi- i. "rpeotUg the surplus fund. retain of the accounts, and that they! N Also, of the Township Counch of Syden- ', "cold have Ile :fulleet opportunity, l , barn re in for aid to im rovc Meafwd during the beam, of examining ', 'i?lhllt' g p b l in tho most ii?" thway 1every item . , of ex cniiiture. ith one Wu 'minsry re. . 2,1r,/iid,C,'pif" D. P. MoRoary ant oth. marl}; he might proceed to dia"'u.s the finen- ,' Ap Tr' . ' cial position of the Provmce of Ontario as ' fhrce Ictitions respecting liquor. I it ntocd on the 31stf t',tel'gi 187:2.th ' o , _ calliu the attention o ouourab e mom " , E"o"TnrATh'il. to thft position, he said that the information M Attorney General MOWAT laid on the which he proposed to convey had been table the estimates of expenditure for mainly drawn from the atatexnentsui one of . It73. liis predecessor?! till: 1gtratt,' 'het",', for . . ' . Smith Brant, w ire we a ways arm moat _, THIRD, READIAGS. ' oluabho records in the Department. That i The knowing Bills Welt) road {third time I honourable gentleman had compiled in the . and itaahul:--- most useful way a 21", of intelligible iedor. l, Mr. Clxrke Welliu ton -- For the " mention respecting t expenditure and _re- l tion, in Untario, of Igeectivoroul it',/"2tt. ccipts of the Provinoe, and its relatihni with i birds bemst'.teUl tuanric-ulture. the Dominion, that could be found in no l Me Cla k iCii. to T t other place. Ila had crammed the I dth YA" ( l u, 1ug n) - 0 urthcr statement! made In TW, 'rn,"io, and "ll by I won l' . gricu tune and Arte act. the hon. member; and had also had the Mr. W/lliaretRyni/tor0--'1'o incorporate benefit of the statement of the hon. Mr, the Hamilton Female Home, under the name . McKenzie in February last year; and from 'f the " Home tor the Wiemlutrs," at Uaat Niece sources of information he was able to ' ihon. cfmmunicato to the House the exact position ' Mr. Gil-son -To incorporate the Superan- of the Province. a. might also mention in mated Preachers' Annuitant Societv in connection with the Iourcus of informution connexion with the Methodist New "con.' which were in this way available to him that l . nexlirn Church of Gamma. . there was a father docgmefnt which ennua- l r. Bod ins-To incor it)", , A. o ted from the n. mom or or 'b'otttlt Brant, "t Financial grpozatiou. I te the To Otict9 of the most exhaustivel and valuable) chinc- 5 Mr. Williams - , . " tor. namely, his line argument tfore the . the Boys' Home blimdgg Jhoniatiiogrut' arbitrators when dealing With the . ' . settlement or (interior; a are of the ' Mr. Wilson T llmpccting the Column] excess of tho (PM, and in regard to , 'rtuata Corporation (Limited). their rights in reference to certain trust I Mr. Cameron-To amend the several Aets funds and aseets of the Pttwittee of Gourde. i relating to the Toronto, Gray sad iiliiid The hon. gentleman deserved, at the hands of ' . Railway Company. ' this Province, the lamest amonntof praise for , ' ' _ the exceedingly exhaustive runner in which THE FINANCIAL STATEMENR _ lincited; wpotrtiohalfod Ontario the argulments l ' Hon. Mr. Cil00ks ro '. _ mime the arbitrators-,en1,,l one week com , Home go into Committee?) 22,123; #333? pare the award pronounced with the argu- ply to be EDEN to Her Majesty m "its, merit of the member for South Brant. he that on doing " it became his duty to make aunt f"."" to the conclusxon that in the the customary ttatcauatt in mf frcuco to the mum tint argument prevailed, cum to the fiuancial mm ofthe Province. _ In proceed- very iigttre.? on which the .hry. gentleman irg to do .0 he might just direct the "ton. argued "nth regard to the Province. In tioa oi hen. member-1 to the circumstance culling caution to this. statement Which he, that they had before them in full detail All prcinist.:d TO make he, y.1ir,ys cor.uri'rre.r f."aPe the accountu relating to the occurs-ices of 'ecme important particulars in which the the past ear, ending on tkus3ist iiit,7d'; member for houth brunt claimed certain 1872, imolving the tuinatost details of pabho I artowtawtm for this Provin-e which were expenditure, under the proper heads u; I 't1hvy.ctilr.si,thy Irytttatory..rt furtlierappeared ( might alto remind hon. members that: ilug to him that the peeiticn which the hon. was thenccml occasion on which duriir the member [or South Brant took. m. , sitting of tho Iaegia1atum they had had new volving vciy large sums .oi. money, before them the public accounts in mi; full . was a sound. one in principle. and and complete ah. when called upon to y a that whatever might be oue.of this question, , the supplies for til: coming year Hisimo l' and whatever thither attention might be ro. l diato pmsdvoostror waa "iir,, d po- siried to be paid to it, that no or". was In a . the session of 1871-73 to rlae "le ' paritlonld lend more valuable aid to the l Public Accounts in this same full 10 t a curse of the l'vevince than that hon: gentle l before the House then in "a," in 'u',,",)?,',,",',', man. lie proposed, in submitting thn of January 1872. On province t',l'l,tt',t,',','"tllt . stetemrnt to the House, to pat it through Home Was furnished only with thclogsguo i the rum-.- course of instruction that he hun. i Account. as they were mpltsoqttoutl ri nude ' self had been obliged to go through. a, had 3 because formerly the Public 1"Ib'/uUd",1 ' L' had charge of the Department for only a few ; not rintedand published untilduriu 'ded.' months. and. in connection with other la. l out: which intervened between 'dl "in _ hours, he had been scarcely able to mister session and the following lesion, and of: 1 the details ass-fully " he could have wished that was submitted to the House du ' J) t The first point he was_anxioue to cram at. its sittingiwaaan extract rather mini, f , h was tho actunl. (in.aaeiY YOSItlon of the atatementof the accounts of the reced'u Province. thundering the. urge amount M per. This w" the form in Whichp the 1.'yr money inveetul in public iuidirrtakiag! counts for the year ending .%st Dec 1.35 which swo'lod the debt of the Province and ) were submitted to the Legialstures 'it" W ' the Province of Quuboq, pet. "SA Ot1i' post- , "mall pamphlet consisting of 24 pt. es- 'ld', iiou? Under the British North Amer-w. J Public Accounts new submitted 00118?an a? Act Of 180"l, . stipulated amount of the debt upwards of 150 pages. The onle (it its of the two Pronnces was assumed by the which were formerly contgfnoj in the "if, ' Dominion, and the excess over that am met 5 , mentot the public Lair/tiii/ici/ia'," . ','d devolved upon Ontario and Quebec. This : . to the contingencies of the roveral 'll'l,'.i'1.,"i." "(use was unsealed by the armtrgafn to be t ' manta. In other respects these detail, il? J. nearly ten mlhons and a half. "r.hts.int.eryt omitted from the accounts, which WIN an? on this amount was chargeable Igunst the -- npaafollowa t--5'imt, astatomeut or the e Muddy pawl-t0 We" P "new by the senditure for the ten months endinv 341x; Dominion under the Confederation hot. 2 Molten and then another statement it: u: that. wbilo m theory '" receive-d "/PPf twcmontha ending 3ltst December Re .10 $1,'200,0p0 annually from the Dominion. ttt to ttttttit/tei?,??,??.?':? .1... a... ttttil, ul', l ift,/A'p'i'u"ii)tt Housman . m ethereal a . " :1 rs that daring the out With _ - :2: z: thu excess, of debt. which w" w