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rt, 420 210030 adjourned al 6:20, I r TCOFT KECMIT O y L fi i oR Il bf% it id he he 1o emmerrmmna mm mm he 'J * c« d Fifth Parliament--S2con d Ses-- -y ; 1e s1on,. a» le wor cce mmmmemmenmmcs 18 k (By Ouar Own Reporters.) r» Tassday, Feb. 24. °+ The Speaker took the chair at three o'clock. y REPORTS OP COMMITTEES. 2: . Hon. TVB. PARDET reseated lhe third rs d wort of the Committee on Hailways. B -- Mr. GIBSON {Hamilton} pressnted the f ourth :: report of the Commttee on Private B il!s. n FIRST READIXGS3, d Mr. (Hibson (Hamilton)--To amand the Ontario n -- Joint Stock Companmes Bank Act. f Mr. Robillard--To amend the Municipatl Act --. Mr. Macksnzie--To amend the Bridges and t Watercourse Act. a Mr. Harcourt--To amend the Ravised Statutes : respecting Joint Stock Compaunies. A Mr. Baxter--An Act respecting the Study of | _ Anatomy, t a REPORTS. | ) , Hon. C. F. FRASER presented the repor: of | ) the COommissioner of Crown Lands for 18}, the | _ report of the lnspactors of Asylums and Charit. : _ able Institutions with respect to Mospitais ; and _ the report of the Queen's Printer witih respect io _ the sessional papers of 188t. SECOND READIXNGS. \ Hon, G. W. Ross--To consolidate and amend the Public Schootls Aot. Hon,. G. W. Ross----To amend and consoliqate the High Schools Act | THEBE MUXNICIPATL LOANX FUXD, | Hon, A. M. ROSS--R ispecting the amounts | past due and payable by certain municipalities | upon the setilement made by the Statute of their | | :!'ebtq to the Municipal Loan Fand. He said :-- , ' The Gove.nment by this Bill taikes powor to ex. tend to certain municipalities now in arreoars | under the Municipal Loan Fund. As I state1 j before there ave practicaliy only tw mun'cipalis | ties now indebted to the Proviace in any con. ' siderable ainount; these are the town of C bourg | and the city of St. Catharines, and the former is the most affected by the Bill. It had bsen held.t«') be unfair to Cobourg to call upon that municipality to pay the arrearagas of interost in puo Voar. _A portion of the debenture: issued by that municipality have been sold by the Qovo.rnm_eug. and a portion held. Theyfare still in the Provincial Treasury, and the interest on the latter has not been met. We have frequently urged upon them the necessity for paying the Amount, and pleas have been put forward that they were unable to pay. and the Government