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".,'s -- . K¥ee ---- e Baxterin the chair, on public bills, Mr. WOO'IS m e" bill to amond the Railway Act of Ontario Was passed. & sECOND READIN (i8. The following bill was read a second time :-- To amond the Act restricting pawnbrokers and awnbroking to transfer the issue of hce_m_ues[ })mm the Lieut.--(Giovernor to the municipalities | and reduco the cost of a license from $200 to $50. | It being 6 o'clock the House arose. \ After recess, The House, in Committes of the Whole, passed ' ---- the following private bills :--To incorporate the Sarnia & Lambton Southern Railway Company. | To incorporate the Midland J unction -- Railway ' Company. * | sECOND READINGS. | C _ Following private bills wore read the second time «--To en:Fower tho municipality of the vil-- lage of Parkdale to make special assessments, and for other purposes, To empower the municipal-- ity of the village of Brockton to make special as-- sessments, and for other purposes,. Respecting the trusts of the will of the late Samuel | 13. Smith, deceased,. To incorporate the Case l cadilla _ Railway _ Company. To _ legal-- | ize and confirm certain _ municipal _ by-- laws granting aid to the Canada Southern Rail-- way Company. To legalize, confirm, and declare | valid acertain by--law of the Corporation of the | city otf Kingston. To incorporate the village of | Woodvilie,. _ 'Fo amend and consolidate the Acts respecting the Napanee River Improvement Company. -- Roespecting the St. Catharines & Nis-- | gara Contral Railway Company. To authorize | the Toronto Street Railway Company to issue mortgzage debentures, and for other purposes. To | amend the charter of incorporation of the Onta-- \rio Methoust Camp Ground Company. | PUBLIC BILLS. The following bills received a second read-- | inz :--To amend the Assessment Act.--Mr. j | Badgerow. To amend the Consolidated Muni-- | | cipal Act. -- Mr. Lees. Respecting Cemetery < Companies.--Mr. Balfour, To amend the Muni-- | cipal Act.--Mr. Gibson. | _ G@ovERrRNMENT NoTICES OF MOTION. Mr. HARDY moved that this House will on Tuesday next resolve itself into a Committec to consider certain proposed resolutions respecting liquor licenses. _ Carried, Mr. HARDY moved that this House will, on Tussday next, resolve itself into a Committes to | consider a certain proposed resolution respecting license duties. Carried. Mr. ROSS (Huron) moved that this House concurs in the agreement laid before the Mouse by command of His Honour the Lieutenant-- | (Governor, bearing date the twenty--seventh day of December, 1883, and expressed to be made bet ween John 1{. Barber, of the village of George-- town, in the county of Halton, of the one part, and Her Majesty the Queen, ot the other part. | Carried, / i The House adjourned at 9 p.m. \',{ A\, 4 emmmmmensmmmmenemmmmen avmmeemammmmemmmmmmen mmmmmenes * L = The motion was carried. # PARKDALE AND BROCKTON. [ Mr. GLBSON (Hamilton) moved that theo bills } empowering ParkJdale and Brockton to make special assessments be referred back to the Pri-- vate Bills Committee in order that certain | schedules ordered to be prepared might be incorpo-- rated. Carried The House adjourned at 4:30. NOTICES OF MOTION. | t Mr. Fraser--On Wednesday next --Bill to } further amend chapter 95 of the Consolidated Statutes of Canads. | I Mr. Gray--On Wednesday next--Order of the House for a return showing :--1st. The names of all prisouners in the Central Prison who, during the year 1883, were unished for infraction of the Prison rules, zlvin{,:.he date and nature of such punishment ; 2nd. A copy of the surgeon's certifi-- cate or repurt in refsrence to prisoners who were unished during the yoar 1883 in the Central %rilon ; 3rd. The names of all prisoners who were sent from the Cantral Prison to the Asyilum \| for the Insane during the year 1883. # M t »@f uonmemmememmemmmmmenemanmes. m ancommer nc ucce ces mmmae s *