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y C i w t e 0. ~ i: ,~« "' §> 4 3 i f 5 $ mm mm n i neniine. ... i ONTARIO -- LEGISLATURE. "OURTH PARLIAMENT--SECOND SESSION. i Monday, Feb. 21. The Speaker took the chair at 3 o'clock. 1 PETITIONS. | The following petitions were presented :-- | Mr. Dryden--Of the County Council of On? * :ario, praying for amendments to the school ' law rele)ecting Collegia.t.o «Institutes. Mr. Miller--For the passage of the Bill to erect Muskoka and Parry Sound into a judicial district. _ Mr. McLaughlin--Of the Village Council of Newcastle, for certain amendments to the As-- sessment Act respecting the taxation of divi-- dends. Mr. Miller--Of the Township Council of Muskoka, to amend the Assessment Act in the same direction. Mr, Lees--Of the Township Council of Drummond, to the same effect. Mr. Parkhill--Of the Township Council of Mulmer, to the same effect. | Mr. McMahon--Of the Township Council of | West Flamboro', to a similar effect. | Mr. Cook--Of residents of Simcoe, praying ' that no amendments be made to the liquor law | respecting the hours of closing saloons, &c. Mr. Baskerville--Of the City Council of Ot-- tawa, asking for an alteration in the composi-- tion of the Board of Police Commissioners ; also, against the abolition of market fees. REPORTS OF COMMITTEES. Mr. PARDEE presented the 11th report of | the Committee on Railways. | FIRST READINGS. | The following Bills were introduced and read ' a first time :---- | Nr. Mowat--A Bill to make further provi-- sion respecting the Central Prison and Andrew I Mercer Reformatory and the Industrial Refuge for Girls. | Also a Bill to extend the powers of com--| E:uies created under the Joint Stock Companies | tters Patent Act. | RAILWAY AID, ' | Mr. CALDWELL asked whether the Gov-- | ernment intend cancelling the grants to those | railways not being actively prosecuted, or | where there was no rea.sonabfe prospect of i comlpletion. Mr. MOWAT said that the question was a burning one, and was still under consideration. In answer to Mr. Bouiter, who asked whether it was the intention to place the townships of Wollaston, Limerick, and Cashel, in Hastings, under the Free Grants and Homesteads Act, and in reply to Mr. Parkhill, if it was the in-- tention to place any sum in the Supplementary Estimates to help the county of Simcoe to pay for the administration of criminal justice in | Muskoka and Parry Sound, | Mr. MOWAT said that these questions were ; also under consideration. | THIRD READINGS. | The following Bills were read a third time | and passed :-- | A Bill relating to Interpleader. To auvuthorize the village ot London East to | construct water--works and incorporate the ; village as a town. | Respecting the Prince EKdward County Rail-- | way Company. | A Bill relative to the marriage settlement of | B. H. Dixon. | Respecting the Cana.la Mortgage Company. | PRIVATE BILLS, | The following Bills were reported in Com-- | imittee :-- To incorporate the Weston and Duffia's Creek Railway. " , > Respecting the Credit Foncier Franco--Cana-- dien. To incorporate the Federal Fire Insurance Company of Ontario. Respecting the debt of the county of Lennox ; and Addington, and to enable the said county | to consolidate the same. | To change the name of the Sarnia Gas Com-- | ny, to confirm a by--law of the town of | g:rnia. and to extend the powers of the said | Company. q T l}::a tyollowing Bills were read a second | * time :-- ¢ ! Respecting the (ieorgian Bay and Welling-- 1 ton Railway Comgluy. | Respecting the Port Rowan and Lake Shore ' Railway Company. 5 | To amend the Acts respecting the Trent | Valley Railway Company. | Respecting the debenture debt of the county | of Simeoe. 2e l * To consolidate the debt of the town of Wind-- | sor.