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stke #y s w s ".' _ o. 4 '-desired to be placed on a level with the other in roads and bridges, equal to $29,400, while f "Provinces in regard to the privileges she > the Lower Provinces spent for --this service should receive in common with them. The practically nothing. In 1837 the Government : _other Provinces had got into difticulties mainly expenditure on colonisation roads * for open-- f through' their almost entire assumption of ing up new sections of country was $123,000. s q local expenditures. Ontario was the frugal In 1836 the Government expenditure in Que. g partner who had confined her personal expen-- neo, partly for the se P 4IPORE: U us $161,000; diture within her allotted allowance ; she had in Nova Scotia, 32(.:5'803 i M New Brunswick, con;:polled every member of her family to con. fngflagz';o 5'36'1 mth Prince E(k:wa.r.l h; tribute and, ,500, or the average Governmen been to housenold expenses, and they had expenditure in the lower Provignces was fifty ABLE To PAY® HER War cents per head ; in Ontario six cents per head ; while the more improvident partn:erl through in the Lower Provinces the municipal ex-- « over--indulgent paternal liberality, not only rendxt.ure was practically nothing ; in Ontario fed and clothed grown--up members, but sup-- t was 61 cents per head. , plied even pin--money to the municipnlitiés, Th Pe se nenten on Pabil and then sought relief out of the partnership e-- amounts expended on Public schools capital. 1t woulid not be out of place to direct were asfollows :« j the attention of the House to what the people 3 Government. Municipal, f of Ontario did Ontario............. $350,587 $2,9022,903 4 THROUGH HER MUNICIPAL COUNCILS, Q'uebec. «+4k k k k6 + 249,417 777,178 3 He would take the figures for 1883, the last Nova Scotia........ 199,119 442,331 he bhad at hand complete. 'The total municipal "\°",' Brunswick..... 1352,495 94,507 expenditure that year was $14,523,745, or about P. B.L......,. .4«' A01,006 36,786 $7 50 per head of the population. Of this If, instead ot allowing the municipalities to do \ sum, she bhad expended in im rovement of a large share of the work, the Ontario Govern-- highways and bridges 81,935,865, or a dollar ment had followed the plan pursued in the per head of the population ; for schools, $3,-- Lower Provinces, she would probably have to | 451,989 ; for the administration of justice aud face a deficit. | Kolice, $606,962. He would have been glad to It being six o'clock, the Speaker left the | & ave been able to give definite information re-- , chair. | | garding the municipal expenditure in other | After recess, | [ Provinces, but no reports were found in any Hon. Mr. ROSS went on to say that no | State papers, and although he had addressed charge of extravagaunce could be made against | inquiries to many of the county treasurers in ; the Maritime Provinces. They had managed thedifferent Provincesthe results had been very | their aflairs very economically. The main meagre, the reply in most cases being that | cause of their having got into difficuities was | none were published. In Nova Sootia and their baving taken too much upon themselves. j New Brunswick there were county, muuici-- In some cases they threw upon the munici-- palities and a few towns, but there were no palities burdens which the Province assumed townships. All the municipal management altogether in Ontario. In Ontario the Provin-- was done through County Councils. In Prince cial treasury bears the whole cost of caring for Edward Island there were no County Councils the jusane. -- In Nova Scotia the municipalities and no Township Councils, only a few towns assume a portion of the expense. _ Now it being municipally incorporated. -- In Quebec seemed to be a settled belicft that Ontario's there were county and township organisations, better position was due to advantages under t but the systen must be very limited. There wete Confederation, a belief apparently shared in by three or four replies saying "no reports," and the authorities at Ottawa, as the special grants one--from L'Islet--giving information, 'J'he' indicated, This system of special grants was receipts for the year of that municipality were ! very unfair, especially to QOutari being | $00 und the expenditure $80. Me had state-- | | fhc largost cumsi'uutor}: and (antf;:f:}h"();::':fi, | ments of receipts au.d expenditure from three | had suffered in the past, she might be willing | , counties in Nova Scotia aml one in New | | to submit if assurances could be given that the | Brunswick, -- viz., Kent, N.B., aud Pic-- | other Provinces w« ul i cease their demands in | tou, Lunenburg and Inverness, N.8. "I uk-' | the future. Could Oatario go on from year to | ing these as samples, it appeared that | yeuar with special grants being given to other ; the average cxpcndil.l.ll'e per county in the Provinces and nothing to her? But these * Lowoy Provinces was $25,782, while there was other Provinces would not cease their demands p;acnc:\lly niubc)'&pemlitm:e for the construction | bo_cau.n they were in financial straits and of roads and bridges, Now the total muni-- said the scheme of Confederation had been cipal expenditure for Ontario was $14,5235,745 working unjustly upon them ; the promises or $7 50 li)er heau, or deducting the expendi-- maide at the date of Con.'e.leu'tiou had uot ture for the cities it would be 59.617,?58 or 36 been fulfilled ; that onerous burdens had been ps-rhead. Dividing that nmqnngcounnenwoul.l thrown upon them by taxation and otherwise give a municipal exvenditure of $241,193 for and they had been forced to seek relief from each county, or allowing for the difference in the Dominion. Then they said (with a great the population of the counties of Ontario and | deal of force) that the pegple were not 8::ow the Lower Provinces, $180,000 for euch county able to bear the burdens they were formerly As coq.pared with .u_mum.npul. expenditure of ' and they said if they were forced into thi; $25 in the Maritime l'rovn_m':as. 'l'he' two | municipal system of taxation, they would pre-- longest _ items . iu Ontario's _ municipal | ; fer to withdraw from Confederation. He pro-- exgendl:tp';e wcr';h scl(\)oolu and _ roads | | posed to consider the an ridges. e ntario -- municipali-- FIXANC & ¢ t ties, including the cities, expended 81,176'3878 A onus ues Lh ols uo mz ite uhn pNy NCRS ------ oemmmmmnmmmmmmmmtnapemepntt smm > pponittin e on