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had Muwnnd to stills instigstiors, Ware "Windy untrue. when.) 11! MM now. as u had to hh lnendl In South Oxford, "13th than dlopt'ionn were untrue, and had phao tyr in tho imagtnation. ot. his he...hunt1 the member for Eat Grey. (Cheat-l.) B. would patent to the Home 3 "lumen; of the and. and 1utrilittee In 1874. Then Were invented in Dominion five, and nix per out. neuritic», $2,747,805, and in apoclal dupe-[bin but. on Wt Dumber 1htt you, 81,32ti,34s, trelies'"',',',',', amount. 1 edtot853,3Ti', being . way land, 1872, l $372,786; nilwsy land. 1873, $426,642; I drainage debentures. $53,949. These sums undo I tote! of iAp.h'.9,rs'10, which when de. ducted from the surplus receipts over expen- diture ot $5,100,715, left $171,184 to be ac. counted for. But the bank coconut showed s hslsncs on lat anusry, 1875, ot precisely that amount. The accounts for the years 1568 to Is74 inclusive showed gross receipts amounting to 8l9,i8s,642, and he proposed toexsmine them for the purpose) of sneer- tsining whether thcrelud luau any you during which the strain of the Province had been sii2',,t,',pt'h't administered, or if the expenditures been for objects of public necessity, and for est-tying out the wishes of the Home " manifested by its enactments. They had then invested, " ho had men- tioned, $4,076,133; on public works and buildings, Jt"2A4s,179; in drainage deban. turer, $108,187; in drainage rent charges, $174,813; in psyments on the Rsilwsy Aid Funds}! to Januar Ist, 1875, $799,428; on the Il ihrar t,2% Fund, 652.010; and in the municipal distribution, $1,361,101, mounting altogether to $9,019,874. out oi the nineteen milliona, and leaving $10,168.- 178 to repreaent the expenditurea for the different year: on the varioue subject! tor which the Government wan responrible, The details of theae expenditure could be found in the Public Accountl. They had a very [ heavy burden in maintaining the admlniatra- tion of juatlce, criminal as well an civil, with the t xception of the payment of the ealaries ot those judges who were appointed by the Dominion Government. T " had also to provide for the proper maintenance of our educational system, to maintain the public institution, to erect public buildings when. ever the exigencies ot the public, aervice re- quired it, to open up the unaettled portion! of the country by means of colonization made, and to bear all the charges which the welfare of the Province demanded. Last year he had undertaken to estimate the probable amount of their revenue for any particular year, and the probable amount of their neceuary expenditure. lie then took the normal income to be about 32,300,000, and expenua to be about $1,800,000 on cur- rent aceount without reference to what might be chargeable to capital ac- count. Sinco he made that state- f ment they had run through nine months of the current year, and they had the operation of the whole of 1874 as their guide. In 1568 the receipt: were £2,280,176: m9, $2,625,179; we, s2,500,tiWi; 1871. 8'2,33."r,l79; 1373, 2,962,316; 1374, $3,446,. 347. The amount of expenditure on cur- rent account during the past eeven yearn tor civil government, administration ot jun. tice, and for cxpcndlturee neceesery to keep the machinery of the Province in mo. I tion, averaged >1,452,GSL annually. Ag l hon. members would underused, while the expenditure on matters within the dis. cretion of the Home might be curl eiled,there were certain obligatory expenditures thet could not be brought to e lower scale, and which would probebly increeee " the wants of the country might require. Al to the actual reeulte oi Is74, the eetimeted re- : wish, irrespective of municipal debenture: I en paymente, exclneive of railway fund, drainage, and males distribution, amounted to $2,394,857; e ectuel receipts were icu',ii40,s'i'2, excluding $277,000 in the bunks, showing $252,015 over his athlete. Ulcer.) 1'his would be eaeily cxpluined by e reference to the iteme for that year. The expendi- ture for that year had else been diminished "competed with the estimates. The cuti- meted expenditure, If reierence were made to the Supply .\ct,1874,would be found to be , $2,684,176, while the ectual expenditure ! wee $2,408,966. It reference were muletothe ' Public Account: for 1si4, etetement 3ti, the itctel would he found to be sesame, but $50,000 wee added for unforeseen and un- provided expeneel. Tho charges for the nomad melon of 1574 were included in that, though they were in the eet'unetee of 1875. The operations of the yen 1574, 'tttlet, there wee en exceee of receipte emouu to $250,()00,'end e diminution in the expendi- tureto the extent of $175,000, bad been - . " _ _..l"lnn lentil? than hi. OOH- l "I"! - "-- nearly h." . million .ti:ms of the r" 1574, seeingthat , an excel! of receipts Automating to 'and a diminution in the expendi- xe extent of $175,000, had been u- mum". better than his esti- $2] I mated (Hear, hear.) Then he come to 1875. i In this year he had only nine months a e _ belie. AI he had mentioned, there had been e falling off in the reeeipte from Crown lands and woods end forest; He her! outi- meted the proheble receipts for the your to be s2,618,291, and thet gave him 3 margin over receipt: of $202,693, the eetimeted ex- penditure being by the Act .ic'?.,2Ps5,rr98, The ectuai receipt: tor the nine months of this year had been 32 013,823, mowing e dlfurertee of neerl half & million. There were, however. will three months of this yeer,in which he expected to realize $253,000, leaving him Ihurt $220,000, which would probably be the remit ot the year 1873 at it: close. If hon. member: inquired ate where the falling-off occurred, it would be seen that while the receipts of the Crown Lend: Depertrnent were eetimeted at $3752.- lor, they would probably fell short of that ' amount by $290,000; while the other noun-er of revenue had ircrtssurtyd, that Department showed the reduction to I w the amount stated. The receipts from I ' the Crown Ludo were, in 1868. $382,782; a ' 1800, F53,2rm 1870, $552,587; 1.971, $liS6,- I 193. giving on evernge for the four yeere oi _ $556 000. In 1872 the revenue emanated to the lerge sum of 8l,178,'iti4, which arose ', from the extenelve tale of timber limits. The I dopreuion in the timber trule was begiunin ', to be felt in 1875, but the emount exceeded hell . million, being $524,333. The Grammar School lends were diminish- Ing year by your, and it wee al wnys anticipated that they would be ultimetely eniirely wiped out. For the fast nine months of 1875 there had been received frc m Grammar School Board: $7,286, from Crown Lands $71,689, from woods and forests $20,201, making a total of $199,176 The receipts for the remeining three months were eetirneted " $155, 000. He would now men. tion for "no information of the Home the rs. unit of the sele of the municipal lam tend debentures. The amount represented by those debentures. and w,l,','yggihrigg,."d the l reduced all! of the munrcvprll ee, wee £364,000 eluding, or tt,F00,060, them-edit- ing Brockuile and other towns with . some in regard to the Canada Central Railway. Hon, memberu. in dealing with this Mani cilvi Lem Fond debt, forgot that the l bueia of the unsure depended entirely noon ', tho u nest enmr: ot the obligation of each mum irah"y ir. the Province, and this wee a. -. m and try the Act of the former Pro. 'r value of the property in 1858, and that was l to agply for all time, All the rest was wiped I out y that Act, which brought down. the debts to about $3,000,000. The next step, was a wry easy one, being to do in favour of l the municipalities which had aided railways, before Confederation what the Province had been doing for the railways since, and to re- fund to them the aid they had given to mil. way 3, or something like their quota. A tur. ther reduction was made, and generally sequ'ewrd in, so that. It the amount still remaining exceeded a two-cent rate upon the assessment it should he reduced to that amount. This whole matterhad been fully discussed in the last Parliament, whose sc- I tion had been ooatirmod by the oountry at the 1 ' last general election, not only in regard to n . this, but in regard to many other matters wituwhieh this Administration had had to deal. The amount received for debentures up to the 31st December, 1874, had been , $799,525, and up to the 30th Septembrr, 1875, $593,786, making a total of $1,392,811, and leaving $170,820 yet to be realized, aiourtegiitherwoyld amount to$1,iitt'3,631, lie proposed new to submit the estimate of revenue and expenditure for 1876. The revenue for thatyear he estimated at $2,350,- 000, The main sources of revenue he placed the same as for 1875, with the difference of $588,000 for receipts from Crown Lands ia. stead of $55000; in other words, the reduc- ' =-Bi. "" ,_-_.A.__ A- sum: lulu v- w.v-,vv-, - ie---"-"'" 7 . tion can 816t,000. The melph for 1870 from the Crown Land. Department were satin-ted " $588,000 no compuad wlth $354,000 for 1875. Mr. MAODOUG ALL "lied If the Trou- uur eonounod in that om Mr. CROOKS um tint Mt far " hi. infor- M