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The consideration of the details of the Bill showed a great many difficulties as to the borndary lines to be provided, The views of both parties itterested were heard and several momburs of the Committes spoke urging the importance to the whole Province of a sutisfactory decision, It was finally agreed that the matter should be adjourned to allow the parties to com®b to some agrecment, on the basis of the town of Glifton being compelled to speud tho tacation acquired from the South Ward upon improvements in the roads and othor woiks of the locality. PUBLIQ ACcCOUNTHSs. 'The Pablic Accounts Committee mat this morning at 11 o'clock. Present 1----Messrs. Clarke (Wollington) in the chair, Lauder, Harcourt, Wood, Wills, 'Ferils, Ballantyne, Striker, and Gibson, . Vavious motions had been made on Tuesday for papers, but the moembers making thom--viz., Messts,. Mer« rick, Meredith, Deacon, and Ro_s'l'---werne"l:gt Il\.'l, ePE COOPCEREY ARECOV CE CC wg k in attendance. The Commitltee cons¢-- quently adjourned until to--morrow at 11 o'clock. o HURONX AND ONTARIO sHIP CAN AL_ x This Committse met for organization this morni ig. Dr. . Widdifield was called to the chair. _ *here were present also Messrs. Momis® Bell, Chishoim, Deroche, Hunter, Lavse, and Long. _ Mr. F. C. Capreol appeared and addressed the Com-- mittee, urging the importance of the work whic's they were appointed to consider. A sub--UJommittee, consisting of the Chair-- man and Messrs. Morris and Long, was ap-- pointed':c;';';r;;\;l--t"v--v'ifl; Mr. Capreol and ariange a plan of work. ons Aiik tniBc d dsc actsae d 44 4 AF iL i td ;' had very largely increased in 1878, aud that ifthe mover of the resolution had included that sum in his comparison it would not ! bave toid so favourably for him in arriving ' at the conclusion he had arrived at. 1 the items for Muncipalities and Land Improve. ment funrds, amounting to #163,000, were _also deducted from the expenditure of 1871, the amount was still larger than it bad been placed at in the resolution. -- He had, though with considerable difficulty, arrived at the items which mado up that difference. They were $25,000 for sufferers by the Ot. tawa fire, $5,000 tor similar relief to the sui-- ferers by the Saguenay fire, and $19,505 for expenses of clections, He had expcrienced equal difliculty in finding out how the hon. gentleman had arrived at his statement of the expenditure for 1878 He found that the only item which be deducted from the total expenditure for that year was $298,000 for Public Works and Buildings, He found in the Public Accounts for 1878 items both for Municipalities Fund and Land Improvement HFund, and he could not conceive why the hon. gon-- tlieman did not deduct these from the ex.' penditure of that year, as he had done from . that of 1871, it he were desirous of making | a fair comparison between those two years. | The expenditure under these heads had | been exclusively in the interests of the people, and yet when the hon, gentleman was in search of items for the purpose of reducing the expenditure of 1871 he had selected those items, though including them in the expenditure for 1878. (Hear, | hear.) lf he had looked as carefully over the items composing Miscellaneous Expen. | diture in 1878, as he had for 1871, he would have found some just as exceptional as those for the Ottawa and Saguenay fires, and he asked why he had not taken them from the total expenditure in 1878 before making a comparison between that year And 1871 . ; Mr. ROSS (who on rising was received with cheers) said that he had boen at a loss to arrive at the figures which the hon. gentleman who bad made the motion had | placed in it, He had understood that it "ru the intention of that non, gentleman Mr, MEREDITH asked the han, gentle-- man to point out auy such items, Mr. ROSS said that in 1868 the excep-- tional expenditure ot a gratuity to Mrs. Mackenzie of $4,000, aid to Nova Scotia fishermen of $5,000, and the grant to Col-- leges of $30,600 had been made, which should properly have been deducted before a compurison were mads between that year and 1871, But the hon. geatleman refused to make these reductions, because if he had done so he would not have been able to say that there had been only an increase ot twelve per cent. between 1868 and 1871, and his, comparison would consequently have been made less favourable to himself, These items had been purposely omitted by the hon. gentleman , it was impossible to think tuat he could havo overlooked them , lIn-- 1848 -- thero were also the exceptional expenditures of £4,000 for arbitration betwoen Ontario and Queboc, $4,000 in connection with the north and western boundarics, $16,179 for insurauce to compare the expenditures of 1868 and 1871, deducting the outlay on account of Public Works and Buildings. 'The total expenditure in 1868 was $1,182,389, and the expenditure on Public Works and Buildings was $162,747, and deducting the latter sum from the former thero remained the sum of $1,020,000, whereas the amount placed in the resolution was $1,056,000. It had taken him some time to discover how the dis-- crepancy had arison, But he found in-- cluded in the cost of Public Works and Buildings for 1868 the sum of $36,901 for Colonization Roads, which the hon. gentle~-- man had deducted from that amount before deducting it from the total expenditure for 1868. Anyone unacquainted with the tactics of the Opposition would be at a loss to understand why _ that deduction nad beon made. But the reason was that the outlay on colonization roads The following is thr »saclusion of Weducs-- day night's debate ;-- THIRD PARLIAMENT--FOURTH SESSIQN. QONTARIO LEGISLATURE. Lzoisuavive Assey RG \ *3