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I -"" "v""V "uJuluou "(I 113450. jOllTARlO LEGISLATURE l Fifth Par1iamtmtr-ieond Bar. 81011- (By Our Own Reporters.) Thursday, March 12. The Speaker took the chair at 3 p.m. REPORTS OF COMMITTEES. Mr. Baxter presented the third report of the St tnding Committee on Printing. Hon. A. S. Hardy presented the first report of l ' the Standing Committee on Municipal Law. I i Mr. Gibson (Hamilton) presented the 14th .reportiof the Standing Committee on Private 1 Bills. Hon. T. B. Pardee presented the 7th report of the Standing Committee on Railways. .THE ELECTION ACT. Hon. A. ti. HARDY. in introducing a Bill to amend the Election Act. mud that it embodied _ nclause relating to the disqualification of Dr. I Dowliog, and followed the precedent of the Utah's Bill relating to Sir Charles Topper. (Liu/Inav.) The Bill was read the first time. l ) FIRST READINGS. l . ur. Gillies --To amend the Consolidated Mani. Cipil .\,tof153';§ Ali: Fcoisev--To amend the Voters' Lists Act. Mr. M mm --Respectiutt summary convictions. Ali. it is. (ll-i or-To amend the Act impos- ing a at on dog's for the promotion of sheep. , THE PUBLIC HEALTH. lion. A. M. RUSS introduced a Bill to make for :ier lll'UV:\lI'll regarding the public h~alth. Mr. Mfu'll,lu' DITH asked Mr. Ross to make an explanation of the changes which his Bill would make. he said that under the pro- Visions of the Act as it stand. too much power was vested in the hands of 1 the Local Boards of Health. They had the l power to interfere with valuable property. The I Local Board ot Health of the Village of London West had issued orders respecting Saunby's dam on the river at London, which would destroy the value of a considerable deal of property. They l had not desired to exercise all the power given , them by the Act, but he! brought the matter I under the consideration of the Provincial Board I of He dth. He hoped that the hon. gentleman i would make some provision in hi, Bill, limiting, i or at least clearly dtstinine,ttte power of the Local I Boards of Health. l Hon. A. M. ROSS said the object of this Bill was more in the direction of prowlingr machinery for enforcmg regulations which were necessary in the interests of the public health. One pro" vision ot the Act passed last session was that ': Municipal Councils should appoint medical 1 health otfieers, but 3: me of theso did not do this, and one change now prooosed'.was to give the Lieutenant - Governor - in - Council power to app out such otfittert, in places where an epidemic had broken out if the Courts oils did not take action. So far as regarded the l dam at London to which the hon. gentleman had 1 referred the Local Board of Health had done no , more than was a praisewortliy act. They hadl been calling the attention ot other Councils to a l matter affecting the public health, and as they I had taken no action about the dam there was no l room for complaint. The hon. gentleman must i remember that these Local Bards of Health were nppomted by the Municipal Councils, and that, therefore, they would not act in an arbitrary Way. Mr. MEREDITH said the hon. gentlemen did not seem to appreciate his objection. On one' side of the river at London they had a populss tion of 20,000 and on the other-London l Wtsst--there were only 1.501). The citv l of London Board of ll saith thought there was no necessity for what the London West Board of Health pro- posed to be done with reference to Mr. Saanby's l dam. He did not think it advisable that small bodies should hive the right to exercise such a large power. The Bill passed its second reading. PRIVILEGE. . Mr. MEREDITH said before the orders of the day were called he wanted to refer to a report l oi Inna observations he was said to have made yesterday With regard to the name of Mr. David Mills, in connection with the Boundary case, What he said was that in the Public Accounts the 84,300 paid to Mr. Mills appeared as a pay. l ment on account, while m the Public Accounts s Committee it appeared to he a oavment In f iill,