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-"-"""""""-I-.q' net or the tt - ._ 9mm) itPtilt,'u"ittir,2ttrai W . I. add tteg to pout out that although tht Court or A peal had . Jr decided Against these to"Whips the equity at the ca" W ll ("mot an abolition of their tld and that it would be Ythttind in the .ate: More ademsnd against which n Judge had pronounced " jump l 'etut. when the House was dealing wit l tt whole matter on equitable grounds, '. fen"; be thought, a stronger ground or... reducticn in the case of these munici- eye than in and ether cases in which be d asked the ease to reduce. There were minor points to which he still wished to call the attention of the House. and he would 'ttthart occasion to - it for more thtu.s, , lo l minutes. Gentlemen who were familiar with the stats of the law in regard "the Clergy Reserve allowance which is made to the municipalities of the Province, knew that it was provided by one of the statutes .on the subject that any munici- my in default to the Municipal . Fund thereby forfeited its claim to the sum that would t otherwise be going to that municipality from the Clergy Reserve Fund. That rule ' had been held under the various Statutes not i to apply to counties; but it applied, at all eve nts, to other municipalities than counties. It had seemed to the Government that in regardto those cases to which the Statute of I 1859_(lid not apply in regardto the muni- 5 cipalmes that receive no reduction, that it l is reasonable that we should not insist upon i thttfor.feitam of that money. It a munici- i palnty ll prepared to pap up now, receiving 5 Its various allowance, t is reasonable that . that money should not be forfeited. It was i rather an extraordinary provision in ibe fimt place. The better plan, apparently, would have been to have applied the amount from the Clergy Fund towards the wiping out of the debts due.instead of making the provision as to forfeiture which had been adopted. He asked the House to give credit for the sum, whatever it might be, to thosei municipalities which remind no benefit from the reduction on the Statute of 18.39. He had had great dilliculty in ascertaining the amount which shouldbe credited on this account. The tipattrea which he had adopted were only an approximation, as the fhrttres were not in the possession of this Province, and could only beobtainasd from Ottawa after some delay, ro thatjf behad waited toobtalu them the hon. member for East Toronto would have been forced to ask his well-worn question several days longer. (Laughter ) Ho h ill rpohcn of the division of a certain sum re- membered. and he had spoken of the railway I allowance, and the result was that certsiu l sums wouldbe payable to certain munici- F pal ities. A question to be now considerel was who should have the selection of the, objects as to which the money is to be ap- plied, The Governmcnt had come to the conclurion that tho money should be spent upun perm merit objects, that it should not go to pry the general expenses of the year, but b ould go to certain tsoifio objects of a permanent character. For instance. in aid of railways or drainage; for tU building or improvement of court bourcs,gaols,or hos. pitsls ',the establishment of an industrial farm, house of industry, or refuge ; for building or improving schnls, public halls, bridges, har. bours, piers, or gravel roads, or in other per- manent im rovements affecting the municl. palitiea. gl'bcn. the question as to the body thatis to determine these objects had mind the Government considerable reflec- tirn. The conclusion arrived " was that in the ease of counties the money must tint be given to the counties to be di. vided among all the local municipalities, to be applied to the payment of the debt. In the timt place the county or municipality pay tofhe Crown. if there is a county debt; but in regard to the balance. it there isa balance, then it is to be distributed amongst all the local municipalities according to pc- pulation. Then it there is no debt due the whole amount is to be distributed aeuordiu! to the census of lSTl. In order to afford time for the necessary matters to be attended to which will require attention, and in order to give the people a chance of having a voice in the disposalIof the money,the Government proposed that the amount should be handed over to them on the first of Febru- ary next, being a little time alter the next municipal elections, so that there might be sent to the council such persons as were chosen to deal with this distribution. He had said early in his state- ment that it was necessary to had some way by which we should avoid the state of things that arose alter the passage of the f3tutute of 15:19 with respect to these municipal debts lie hail ointcd out that the eil'ort was to place allpdcbts on a footing pinch made It int-patent to every municipality Ao rxsdmsm