Legislature of Ontario Hansard, 31 Dec 1867, p. 8

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irom suon old mising district, compared with th»] 3 xpense of collecting the same. s Also, that he would ask the Goveroment | what was their intention with regard to the 9 meaujabratencmes tan 4 id Goverrmsnt intend to remove any doub's by leglslation during the presont session. . Mr., RYEKERT moved for an address f--r a return showiog the number of lisenses grazt | ed sinca 1860 for cutting timber on the wild lands of the Province, the number of persons | employed in the business, the extent of '1 osuntry thus rented out, and the amount rec:ived from, and ue to the Government, | from the lesne of said loonses, 1 Hon, J. 8, McDONALD gaveo notice that ho | d would introduse a Bill to authorize the | P oroation of a fund to be ca'llea the Consoli-- | U dated Revenue Fand of the Proviccs of | t Ontaric. DEBATE ON THE ADDRE3:. The Orders of the Day belog calied, A Mr. COYNE, of Peel, ross to movs the | addrers in anawer to His Exocllenoy's Spessh from the Throne, Mr. Coyos said he cocu-- led his position with great diffidence, and | ! Koped honourable gentlemen wouli bear | with bhim. He could fally agree with the | openaing portion of the specob, and fels |1 pmnu in being thus calied to meet with | the reprasentatives of the Province in one of 3 the most populous and oldest constituencies | in the Province. He felt that their meetleg in Toronto could not but be berefisial, from the fsct that Toronto was i the seat <f the ohief educational institations of the country, it was the clty whore the leading Press of the Province was looated, and on there accounts--with the wealth and 1mportance of the clty--there must necassar-- lly be a good deal of isfluence exercised here in toning the debates of the Arsembly, He would then at once procced by heartily con-- atulating the people of the Provinos that goronto had been ohm the seat of bt.he slature, more es y as members m there assembled in the old hall of Par-- MHament, where many an Mflrhnt question | ! had been debated, and where the great | questions of Constitutional Governmeat had | ( been fought by a former Assembly. As to || the circumstances which had brought about | ! the present change in their position as a Pro-- | ' vince and a separate Leglslature, he would | ! say little beyond this, that it devolved on | -- every member of the House to welgh care» | / fully the varlous matters to be brought be: | fore them, as the success of the Confedera: | | tlon scheme depended on that House as muck

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