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was a continual Ineau_e in the new depart-- \ ments. In the Board of Health and Bureau | ; of Statistics the cost had almost trebled, | and he was afraid that the importance of the departments might possibly be magnified. '{'}xo items wore passed, .\lfim'llaneous 810.350. | Mr. CREIGHTON contended that the CGov-- i ernment had no right to appropriate excess } onh one item to cover the deficievey in an-- | other, 9 . |._Hon. C. F. FRASER said that all that the | constitutional rule required was that the votes in gross, as entered in the journals,should be ke&;t separate, not every item of the vote. 1t did not mean that if in the maintenance of a | particular institution there was an over-- | | estimate of $6 for meat and an under--esti-- | ' mate of a few doliars for butter, these two [ items must be kept entirely separate,. All { that was required was that the Government | must keep within the amount of each vote, [ The Committee rose and reported grogreus. Hon. A. 8. HARDY laid on the table a re-- turn of the amount due to the Province by municipalities, The House adjourned at 6:10. w tammmt m > hok t e mm inniinnpntetetimien ui.