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FIRST READINGS. ' Mr. ROSS--Bill to amend the Act respocting Puvlic, Separate, and High Schools, P Mr. MolINTYRE--Biil to amend the Consolis dated Municipit Act of 1883. p It being six o'clock the Speaker left the chair, l m" recess, House went into Committeo 0' the Whole, / gollil'ldemd. and reported the following private ills :-- Respecting a certain by--law of the town of Trontop.--M¥. . Sills. To authoriz > the Toronto Street Railway Compqny to issue mortgage de-- bentures, and for other purposes.--Mr. Badg-- erow,. To incorporate the Silver Brook Tram=« way Company.--Mr. Gibson (Hamilton). Ro-- 3»eting the Lake jpimcos Junction Railway ompany. §ECOND READINGS. i The following. bills were read the second | ime :-- ' | To incorporate the General Annual Confer:-- ence of the Free Methodist Church of Ontario in Canada. and for other purposes. --Mr. Badgerow, Respecting the Hamilton & Dundas Street Rails way _ Company.--Mr. Awray, To incorporate the Toronto, Hamilton, & Buffalo Railway Com-- pany.--Mr. (Gould. "I'o empower the munici-- pality of the village of .Brockton to make special assessments, and for other purposes.--Mr. Gray, To empower the municipality of the village of Parkdale to make special assessments, and for, other purposes,--Mr. Gray, To consolidate the debt of the town of Woodstock.--The Attorney-- General. _ Respocting the union of certain Motho-- dist GChurches therein named.--Mr. Morris, To authorize the Supreme Court of Judicature for Ontario to admit Delos Rogest Davis to practice as a solicitor,--Mr. Balfour. |___ _ _-- Gibson (Huron), Creighton 4 Gillies, R wyside, Murray, W Lees, Bishop, Ross (Huron), Drury. Mr. FRASER agzainst lHunter, had the right: of the sum of their Mr. MEREDTTH sald they could and wouic have failed to establish their case. Mr. CREIGWTON revlied, contending that the contractors had no claiuin in law. The trans action had been irrogular from beginning t end. a!50% £RCTIS PUTYW ETTC BARARIAITTC VC October, 1882. The amount had very likely bee: paid in in the receipts of the Gazette of $9,99 at that time. PThe motion was than carried. _Mr. ROS$ said October, 1882. The ().\'T.\Rl()')K;\I.\';\GE ACT. Mr. CLANCY moved for a return showing in detail as to each municipality the amount of the omnginal indebtedness of any irunicipality to the Province under the QOntario Ursinage Act ; the dates of the rent charges originally payable in respect thercof ; the sums paid on account there-- of ; the avrears for such rent charges, and all correspondence in the matter, He said it was certain that very few works were being con-- structed under the Drainage Act of 1873. He was cortain, however, that these Drainage Acts had done s great deal of good, but he wished to know how the Act had been working. X the a, Merrick, Widdifield, Wood, Broder, Clancy, »}. and the mover, Mr. L they could and would amount was paid in i: carried. INSURANCE REPORTS. Mr. MORRIS moyed for a return showing from the institution of the office the dates at which the reports of the Inspector of Insurance Companies had been laid on the table of the House and the year for which such statement had been prepared, and that a corresponding statement be submitted giving like dates and 1 Pn Me@it 2000 i oi k .4 224 1000001 20..0,000ich inb epatats E7 years, with regard to the similar reports respect-- ing insurance companics made to the Parliament | of the Dominion. _ He complained that these . reports were uot worth the paper which they | cost. _ He did not attack the officer in charge,. but the system. -- He thought a change should be made with reference to the publication of these returns. -- The report for 1882 had ouly been brought down a few days since. Mr. ROSS (Huron) explained that two re ports were brought out by the Insurance Inspector, One was an abstract, and the other a detailed statement,. The abstiact report was placed in the hands of the insurance companies, and scat. tered abroad is soon as prepared. The detailed report, however, took a jong time in preparation, as the Inspeceor had to travel over the Province in order to audit the books of the different companies. _ In 1880, the report was laid on the table the 19th day o' the session ; in 1881, the 24th day of the session ; and 1882--3, on the 8th day of the session,. _ He did not think the de-- detailed report could be issued before the month ot July in each year. t inA years :_ is in i e P U CE O NB PPR inE Mr.y CREIGHTON said the report when ready should be cireulated among the persons interested, so that they should be some value. The hon. Treasurer had admitted that the report would be ready by July. All this time this im portant report had been withheld from the pub-- lie till the House met. This rule of the House should be aitered. 'This had been a matter of complaint amongst these insurance journals that those reports had come out a year after they had been prepared and after some company had col-- Inwwod. 10-- ns o0 ~. td £ § t td t E.Ir. MORRIS thought they should place this statement in the hands of the pecple at as carly a date as possible. The motion was carried. OBTAINING FRAUDULENT JUDG-- MENTS, Mr. FRENCH moved that in the opinion of this House it is desirable to extond the principles of cap. 118, see. 1, R.S.0. (which prevents con-- fessions of judgment), to cases where, by coliu-- sion with, or other act of & debtor, a creditor pro= cures a fraudulent or speedy judgment to the prejudice of othor creditors, aud that a committee be appointed to bring in a bill on the subject, Mr. MOWA'T sard the matter of the motion was covered by a bill which would be distributed to the House in a day or two. -- Heasked his hon, friend to delay his motion until he saw t!\e bill, , A NEW MEMBER. | _ _Mr. Hardy and Mr,. Freoman introduced Mr. G. A. Cook, the newly elected member for South Oxford, who took his seat on the Govern-- ; ment side of the House. PORT PERRY MAGISTRATHE. Mr. MEREDITH moved tor a return of copies of all correspondencs with reference to the re-- moval from the offics of Polics Magistrate of | Port Pérry, of Mr. Jolhn Nott. Hoe admitted that ho did not know the facts leading to the re-- moval, and contended that the reasons for his idismiss:\l had not been communicated to Mr. Nott. which he thought would meet the point raised by him. -- The subject h: d had great attention at the hands of the (Governmont. -- During the past year his attention was called by one or two judges to a provision in the Absconding Debtors' Act bear-- ing on this subject, and it occurred to him a little extension of that would cover the ground. Ar. MEREDITH said the present system was scandalous, as preferential judgments were obtained every day, and he hoped the Attorney-- General's bili would remedy this grievance, It was a matter of credit to the hon,. gentleman who introduced the motion to have brought before the House this important qauestion which should have been taken in hand by the Government two or three years ago, as it was a very pressing ques-- tion with business men. _ _ 3 1\Ir ll{\S'lR--xngvzuted if it was so important a matter how came it his hon,. friend had not thought fit to introduce a bill thereon during ali this time. 3 A _ Mr. FRENCH consented to lot his motion stand at the requeost of the A ttorney--General. Mr., MOWAT said as far as Mr. Nott was con-- cerned politically there was every reason to res tain him, as he was a Reformer al his--life, as well as his family. It was imwortant that it should be remembered that a wman might be a very good magistrate under the ordinary com-- mission, who was not fit to be a police magistrate. He had amengst other things ths power of two magistrates. The first step _ upon which the dismissal had been vbased was a commumcation from Judge Osler calling the Attornoy:--Goneral's attention to the manner in which certain persons had been com* \mitted, and who had been discharged owing to ho irregularities, _ He proceeded to state that it was not correct that Mr. Nott had not been informed of the offence for which he was re-- t * ad