North American. [volume] (Swanton, Vt.) 1839-1841, 1840-11-11

ordered the Receiver Gearfsl to be- ready
10 meet the warrants to that amount. The
Receiver Gsasfal implnr-d His Exceiieney
,,at % issae Ihrse warrants before the
noath oil jolly, and also Informed the Gov
rrnsr that the English treasury was In-
dsbtsd 10 the Province. The Governor as
requested, waited tll July and at that
period the Receiver General, who vas q
bankrupt, was not better prepared than
before, 10 meet the drafts that were drawn
IN him. In August, Lord Dalhopsis was
formally Informed tina, the Receiver Cen
ersl was wholly unable TO meet the pay
lnent OF any warrant which was then or
might be signed by the Governor Lord
Dalhonsis who must have known before
this time the exhausted state Of public in-
anecs, was leit 10 very critical situation.
He suspended the Receiver General and
named commission to inspect his accounts;
add 10 carry on the administration OF the
civil government of the Province, he bor-
rowed money fran the military chest,
which does not belong TO the Province and
which 10 ga establishment entirely indie
rendant OF the Colonial Legislature. 10
this precarious position the Governor Gen
sral summoned the Provincial Parliament
to meet on the 25ih Of November, 1898.
He was forced 10 throw himself upon the
indulgence Of the Legislature and inform
ed them that one of the public officers was
q deiaul,sr to n great sum oil money. The
Legislative Couacl received this sad news
with all the goodness Of Stocks and made
no further inquiry about this business.
trust, referred the Governors message TO
a special committee which was composed
Of Messrs. CuvilIier,' A. Stuart, Tascher
ecu, Bourdages, Hsney, Nelson and Be-
langer. Several Of the public officers were
examined and more particularly the bank
rupt Receiver General, together with Mr..
Hale who had succeeded him, and a Mr..
Goldman ,one of the Executive Councillors,
and from the examination OF these gentle
men it was found that the late Receiver
General was a deiaulter TO the enormous
sum Of S496, 666 doals which he andhs |
father, whose successor he had been, had |
applied TO private purposes and for their
own aggfandisemen,. BY this examina-
tion il vas also ascertsined that the sum |
feloniously distracted from the Provin.
cial chest amounted TO E219,064 0 II
Such was the beautiful system prac,ised in
a Colony which as its Governors used 20
tell It's Inhabitants enjoyed the unspeaka able
blessing of living under The British gov
And from that time TO the pre-
sent, Sir John Caldwell has hardly
been called to an account and is now en-
oying in luxury in neighboring Province,
The spells Of his theft of the public proper
". He still retained his seat in the Legis
alive Council s. there was permitted to le-
yislatc and insult that same people whom
lad SO fagrantly robbed.
When Mr. Tsschereau proposed in the
House To defray the civil expenses Of the
for the current year, there
we're found some men bold enough to ex-
'ress a conscientious belief that no civil
isi ought to be voted in the present fnan-
ial difficulties in which the Province had
'een placed by the bankruptcy of a public .
'tiIcer, who had been counlenanced in his
by the Executive Of the Prov
nee. The salutary inteRiions Of these pa
riotic men were defeated by majority of
to 10. Yet the House could not be in
aced TO vote civil lis: as requested BY
he Governor, but curtaed the salary of
ach public officer (whose pay had been
'creased during the war Of 1919, and by d.
rigid economy reduced the list to f40,-
10 and upon the same principles as in the
'rmer sessions. The reader can very cas-
y imagine that the Legislative Council =
'ould not complaeenily view this enor
ious decrease in the salaries OF the Office
oiders, and on the same day that the bill :,
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