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4 f/ ; "-'l.' " w s 1+€ ) Jv ? dilkin.o fln nte nds MPECC "/ e C 9e -'_; j s h " \YTW:'(:;;Y'M'" :'» P 4 | 4 3 § P s V;'.;' * :' § 9 '.'.? " "l/ 4 f ® 7 y & ~. 9e §9 , x * j * * s * ", %" F < e Nul es s 7 A x x Mr. ROSS said that the burying ground Relating to the Hamilton and .N-orth- fA ol had been planned off originally without stern Railwa Company--Mr. Williams. _ . C Wa Y ie e being convuyw'i to the town by the Canada On Mr. Rosevear's Bill relating to the , s Company,and heheld that when the town had Midland Railway Company, been incorporated all such property within 4 in ie Bill PM @4 its bounds became its property,. | Mr. WILS.ON complained that P Bler o , Mr. FLESHER thought that the town of | gave two--thirds <l>f ttlxm ]bm:idhh(fil(tirsssll)x%:l i [ n | Guelph should have some say in the dis-- | * to decide that all the bond 20 bonds, and 24 | posal of the land. l exchange their bonds for nc\}v %nh 'ldch | _ Mr. HODGINS said if the Canada Com--| that the second mort'gaget )ol:he (;)ollal'- pany had created a trust of this ground for j | should only get twe.l%ty o o; r to issue E burying purposes they still held the fee of | | I.t' also gave the fillCCt()l'S Por' y it were it diverted from the purposes of this l [ #400,000 now stock. i f d ; § trust, | Mr. SCOTT -- said _ this Bill ha f Mr.. DEACON reiterated his caution received _ great _ consideration . at the J against passing this Bill. 'They should re-- hands of the Railway Committe® N0 member that they by passing this Bill would ' the general impression among the memPars be creating a dangerous precedent. He of the Committee was that its provis10N8 . , thought that the title was in the Canada were fair to all the creditors of the road. He y e f Company. considered that it was just that what ltiwo- E s thirds of the bondholders or stockholders Mr. FRASE rpos e 3 A yay E: Canada %Offpfins;"tlmth?lf)ltl}ll): pi'::p(;):((i'i(?zft::g might decide should be binding on all. : this land was that it might be for the Mr. CAMERON had no doubt that the Bill * benefit of those who should buy lands had been very properly designed, but its y E* in the town lot laid _ out bY | provisions appeared to him to be hardly them. He questioned if the people of the | just, There was a provision permitting the :.* township had even the right to be buried | directors to sell any bonds of the new issue e 6 .. in that plot. He did not think, even ad-- | which had not been exchanged for old bonds, F f mitting the title of the Canada Company, | at any price that they chose. + which he did not, that they would raise any | Mr. PARDEE said that the Bill allowed f obJec-uon. to this change of public purpost i the exchange of all the bonds. _ As some F of this piece of ground. nuimber of the bondholders had to be fixed ' Mr. CAMERON said that when this | who should decide, he thought two.--thirds ; matter was before the learned judges there | | was a fair number. A large number of the + t was not one word about the CangglaCompary creditors were before the Committee, and | E or the township having had any interest in appeared satisfied with the Bill, < the ground. . The old ground had been Mr. MACDOUGALL (Simcoe) said the k maintained by the town and township, and' provision of the Bill with reference to the 4 the' val'ue. of the ground should go towards majority of the bondholders deciding for the maintaining another, ground for the use of | whole number was a principle which had both. He apprehended that the plain fnan | been embodied in our railway legislation : who appeared before the Private Bills Com-- from the beginning. e mittes had been in a manner laughed away. arierr trar t To his mind this matter was a picce of plain RETURNS. A natural justice. | Mr. HARDY presented a return of the Mr, MEREDITH said that it was hardly | timber sold in the Province of Ontario in | fair to say that the gentlemau who had ap-- | 1871, | f | peared for the township had been laughed s a 1. F's away. It was unfortunate that he (the 'll'"'ld. If"\l"l)ll'" SS"."d when the returns l gentleman) bad not with him the documents asked for at the beginning of the session f f | since sent down to the House. He contend-- would be brought down, and mentioned the f ed that as the judges had not had the facts, return relating to the Mercer estate. fo since made known, before them when ap-- Mr. HARDY said that return was being i proving the Bill, it should be referred back rapidly prepared. f to them. The map sho_wn t:0 the Committee | | _ Mr. CAMERON complained that all the n was one of the township with the town plot | returns ordered should have been presented f }alduout x:mltthe burying gmlund matrlkcdl, s(z | to tht House long before this. : | he thought the outmost settler in the las raAtp $ ; | concession had an equal right in the ground | ",M[r['m?l(.)" AT moved the adjourementof k as an inhabitant of the town. He cautioned | ? Y & | the hon. the Attorney--General against allow-- | _ The House adjourned at 11;20, ing such a precedent for legislation to be es-- | --2)1--. f tablished by their present action. NOTICE OF MOTION,. Mr. FRASER questioned the accuracy of o i use { the hon, member for London's description .Mr. M:x('(!ougall--()u }\ ednesday next--| M of the map. -- He was sure that the plan was Bill respecting Mutual Life Insurance Com-- | of the town. panies doing business in Ontario, | _ Mr. CURRIE reminded hon. gentlemen 4 Mr. O'Donoghue--On Wednesday next-- | | that they were only giving power for the | Enquiry of Ministry when and on what day | diversion of the purpose of the ground, and | the Government intends to lay before the | not giving Guelph the power to sell the | House a draft of the scheme for the disposi. ground. -- He thought some clause might be | hon of the estate of the late Andrew Moer-- f inserted so that the ownership would be | cer, of the city of 'Toronto, in so tar as acknowledged as vested in the town and the same relates to the rights or claims of f | township. | his son, A. F. Mercer, | Mr. DEACON spoke in support of the Mr, Lauder--On Wednesday next--Order hon. member for London, and contended of the House for a return for copies of all that the first clause contradicted the remarks instructions given by the Government or of the last speaker. ' any departmental ofticer to detectives sent § After further discussion the Bill was to the county of Brant, together with al} allowed to stand over. corlrfipmlu.lcm:o }"""'"c"'" the Government Th a ns Tills wer Cl . and the License Commissioners or anvy of & lhczt"'(zllo.wmb Bills were passed through ihem with the --Liconse Il;fi':CCt(?ll').\ "01' ommi c-- | | County Attorney of Brant, or 'u:)y n'"(,-l,( Respecting the Stratford and Iuron Rail-- trate or other official in the cuum'vnlh% way Company--Mr. Hay . | Brant relating to the enforcement of u(:\ "I'o incorporate the Equitable Fire in. matters appertaining to the license law n: surance Company of Hamilton--Mr, Wil-- any part ot the said county, liams. \ man uen cmemmes um mummema cume neury To incorporate the Whitby and Bob-- | caygeon Extension Railway Company--Mr. Wilson. To incorporate the Brant Memorial Asso-- ciation--Hon, Mr. Hardy. ' *A Respecting the estate of the late Nicholas : Sparks--Mr, O'Donoghue, + * J f To enable Isaac Brock Burwell to sell A certain lands in Westminster--Mr, Mc-- U Craney. hy -- s e e P ol " o e