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| ment. _ Mr. BELL was sorry that the hon, gentle-- man was not able to continue the debate, as he had hoped for an opportunity of pu_t- ting himselt right before the House and his constituents on the position he had taken a few -- moments before, If, however, it was the desite of the House to adjourn be would give way,. | NOTICES OF MOTION. Hon. Mr. Crooks--On Wednesday next-- | Bill respecting Public Schools. | Mr. Miller=.On Pharsday next----Resolution | that in the opinion of this House the powers conferred upon school trustees by the Pub-- lic Schools Act, relating to the raising of moneys by the levying of taxes or otherwise for the purchase of school sites, the build-- ing of school houses, the purchase of furni-- ture, maps, apparatus, and text--books, and | the payment of teachers' salaries, are ' excessive ; and the interests of the country | ", _ demand that they should be so restricted as | / to allow the taxpayers some voice in deter-- l mining the amount of moneys to be annual. | ly raised for the purposes aforesaid, or some i of them. | * biv. Miller--On Thursday next--Order o f the Mouse tor copies of all correspondence and aftidavits filed in the Department of Crown Lands referring to Mr. James Chap-- man's application for patent for lots $ 1 8, 9, and 10 in the 6th con. of the township of Foley, located or sold to him under the Free Grants and MHomesteads Act. _ Also copies of all Orders in Council passed under authority of the Free Grants and Home-- steads Act or the Public Lands Act, or rulings of the Commissioner of Crown Lands respecting the issue of patents under the Free Grants and Homesteads Act, Prersoxarm.--Mr. Williams, the member for Hamilton, has been called away to Au-- burn, N.Y., in consequence of the illness of his biother there, Mr. Wilson, the mem-- ber for East Elgin, attends to Mr, Wiltiams! Parliamentary dutics in his absence ,