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. # s + ® 71 7 Fifth Parliament ------ Third Session. MBy Our Own Reporters.) Moxnay, Feb, 22. | The Speaker tool: the chair at three o'clock, | sTaxDING ornpERS. | Dr. Widdifield presented reports from 10 to 16 on standing orders. The Committee | secommend that the time for introducing Private Bills be extended to the 26th inst. | FIRS'T READINGS. The following Bills were read the first time :-- | Mr. Cook--To authorize the town of Inger-- | soll to issue certain debentures, Mr,. Badgerow--To incorporats the Thun-- der Bay Colomzation Railway Company. Mr, Morris--Respecting the city of Toronto. Mr, Neclon--To amend the charter of the St. Catharines & Niagara Centrai Railway Co. Mr. Ferris--Respecting an agreement be-- tween the city of Brantford and the Grand Trunk Railway Co. Mr, Neclon--To incorporate the St. Catha-- rines Club, Mr, Conmec--To incorporate the Pacific & Atlantic Railway Company. _ Mr. Bishop--To regulate the width of sleighs to be used on public highways. Mr. Conmece--Respecting the Riverside Cemetery Company of Port Arthur. Mr. Fell--Respecting the Irondale & Otta-- wa Railway Company,. Mr, McaKenzie--Respecting the village of London West, | Mr. Gilties--Separating certain municipali-- | ties from Wellington, Perth, and Huron and | erecting the county of Lansdowne, I Mr. I?udgvruwm'l'o Incorporate the Rich mond Hill Junetion Railway, Mr. Badgerow--To further amend the law res?m-t{ngg:mm and fur--bearing animals. Mr. Ferguson--To reduce the area of the town of Bothwell, | Mr. Carnegie--Respecting the town of | Peterboro', ' Mr. Carnegie--To enable the trustees of St. . Andrew's, Peterborough, to borrow money, s etc. | Hon. T. BH. Pardee--Respecting the de-- ' benture debt of the town of Sarnia, | Mr. French--To amend the Ditches and Watercourses Act, Mr. Etmatinger--To confirm the sale of certain lands of the congregation of the Parish Si, Thomas, of the town of St. Thomas, UNAXTIMoOUsS CONXsENT, Hon. T. B. PARDEE, in the absence of Hon. C. F, Fraser, asked permission of the House to Y;:caent a petition ze Anderson for a pmvate Bill to sell certain lands, Granted, PRIVATR BILLS. 'Phe. House in Committee reported the | * followmg Private Bills :-- _ Mr. Ferris--To incorporate the Toronto Fire Insurance Company. wl .. Mr. (Baxter--To authorize the village of | Caledonia to issue certain debentures. Mr, Drury---Respecting the Midland June-- tion Railway Company. SECOND READINGS. tiThe following Bills were react a second me :-- : Mr. Badgerow--To incorporate the Georg-- ian Bay and Lake Huron Railway Company. | . Mr. Dryden--To amend the Act incorporat-- | ing the Regular Baptist Missionary Con-- vention of Ontario. \ Mr. Fraser--To enable the Toronto General | Trusts Company, as Trustees of Anne Laid-- | law, to {vurchasn certain lands. Mr., N claqghlixr---'l'o further amend the Acts respecting the Lake Scugog Marsh Lands Drainage Company. Re--printed. | Mr, McLaughlln-----Respecting the --town of Bowmanville, Mr, Diil--To incorporate the Nosbonsing and Nipissing Railway Company. -- Re-- printed. MAGISTRATES IN scott ACT COUN-- TIES, Mr, MacKENZIE asked. in the event of the Scott Act being repealed or becoming void in any county where a Police Magim trate has been appointed, if it is inten ed | that theappointment shall be cancelled should the county desire it. | Hon. A. S. HARDY--One or two counties ; have asked the same question. _ The reply is ; that if the counties desire to have it as a condition of the appointment, the Govern-- | . ment will give them any undertaking that