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Fifth Parliament ------ Third | Session. | (By Our Own Reportera) » Trursnay, Feb. 18. The Speaker took the chait at three o'cloci. JUDGES REPORT, The report of the Judges with respect to the Toronto Loan & Trust Co.'s Bill was re-- ceived. | PRIVATE BILLS, { Mr. Gibson (Hamilton)> presented the [ second report of the Commitiee on Private ' Bills. ; --_-- RAILWAYS, + Hon. T. B. Pardee presented the third re-- port of the Committee on Railways. FIRST READINGS, $ tl'1'he following Bills were read the first me :« t NMr. Monk--Toamend the Municipal Act. Hon, 0. Mowat--To improve the practice of conveyancing and amending the law of pl-uPerty. . Hon,. 0, Mowat--Respecting returns of con-- victions by Stipendiary and Polite Magis-- trates. _ Mon. O. Mowat -- Respecting criminal justice accounts payable by the Province, THE BUDGET. Hon,. A, M. ROSS, on rising to move the House into Committce of Supply, was receiv-- ed with cheers. He seid :--Mr. Speaker, it is not my inteation, in presenting the annual statement of the firancial position of the Province, to detain the HMouse at any great length,. 'The Public Accounts and Esti-- mates are so full that a very cursory examin-- ation of those documents by the members will give a fair idea of what the transactions | of th. ° Province have been for the year. | But | for the general {)uhliv, who are not furnished with copies of the Public Accounts, it is ad-- visable that a short summary of the particu-- lars should be given, so that they may receive, through the mediumof the press, the informa-- tion which could'not reagh them tHrough any other source. 'This has 'wcomu an establish-- ed custom, and very necessary one too. On the last occasmon that I presented my state-- ment to the House it was expéected, accord-- ing to that statement, that the transactions for 1885 would show an excess of expendi-- turs . over receipts, or that there would hbe, to ; use a word that has been very frequently | used of late years_by hon. gentlemen op: | posite, a deficit. That delicit was expected ® 10 lse about £148,000,. I am happy to be able | to say, at the close of the year, that the finknces of the country are in a better }'-afiit'ion than awe exrpevrpd. (Mear, hear). The receipis for 1885 have been :--From the Dominion of Canada, on account of mubsidy, $1.196,872, the same . as in former vyvears : interest on capital held and debts due by the Dominion to Ontario, $279,-- | 111 ; interest on investments, $50,284, or altogether from Interest on Ontario invest-- ments, $329,395. Then in addition there are receipts : Crown Lands Department........... $7356,864 AIgom® T&XC$ ........... .k 6 6k 6660 +#® 1,620 Education Department ............ _ 38.749 LAWY StMNPH:. .« ....u1is.sa2¥«s»+:.» *.: 06,000 TACEHSCS --/..... . ... avvi..ransrars«s i) A0B;D0Q FPrvamo Ixsrirurioxs:-- Toronto Lunatic Asylum...... 32.0663 S1 lLondon * * *4 1a% 7 493 67 Hamilton * CC 5,644 76 Kingston * F4# 2,052 72 j t)ri]fiu ig ** 1.467 20 Reformatory for Females...... 4,622 84 ** Boys......... 694 50 Central Prigon..............ss 435,0235 43 Dea{ and Dumb Institute...... 250 00 $09,112 62 Casvar REvENUE :-- FINneS, GfC.....s,rrsissre8 i.6« : «$( $,407 :09 Murrogate Court fees..., ...... 1.420 00 Division Court | * .... .....+ 6,530 16 County Court *o o syvy 64 +8% 145 83 Insurance Companies' fees..... 525 00 Official GAZ@UME...,.... se ... 6. 7,120 06 Untarid St@AUALL@S . ....... . ... .+ 547 60 Privaté Bills.....sg1...1...s.s 1,615 75 Provincial Secretary's Depart-- mQ@nt........¢s.ccslexsrasss}s 7,435 30 IncoeptAIS:, .. ..siyses k +kk++rs 98 00 Assessments re Expenditure : Insuraunce Office.... ........ 2,9099 86 Assessments re Expenditure : Removal Fund.............. 4,701 33 $39,556 48 In addition we have drainage debentures amounting to $37,100, and proceeds from the