North American. [volume] (Swanton, Vt.) 1839-1841, 1840-11-18
Original.
,Ir.ToRY or LOWER CANADA.
CONTINUED.

Lord Dsihousie convened the Legisla.
sure on the eist II January, 1896. He
requested the House OF Assembly to vote
the ciVd list according 10 the command
which he had received from His Majesty,
id est, permanently. He also said few
words upon trade, agriculture aud educa
ton, and on the whole he was apparently
better disposed than Formerly. The rea
der will have occasion 10 see how lar His
Excrllcncy was sincere 10 his professions
The House and the Legislative Council
hoth returned an answer 10 this speech,
which were mere echoes thereof.
The FIRST act Of the Legislative Coun-
Gil was 10 pass the bill ior establishing Re-
cstry Offices and In send it to the House.
In this body Mr.. NalIirres de ST. Real in
trnduced similar bill which was referred
to a special committee whu made nn re-
port, aud consequently this useful measure
was lost. We need not repeat here our
.opnion on the establishment ot these Re-
gstry offices, suffice il Ia say that an &C
qusiutance with the uncertainty and lnse-
eufltV OF the transactions IN Landed pro-
perry in those parts OF the Province where
that .aIutary institution does not exis,
would convince any one thatit was great
misfortune, that The bill. establishing them
throughout the Province, did not become
law.
Mr. Nelson introduced a bill in the
House, based upon the resolves passed IN
the preceding session To render vacant
the seat of all those members who accepted
any places OF profit under the Executive
government. But this bill after having
been passed by the popular branch, reee'v
ed i,s death blow at it's second reading il
the Upper branch.
The House OF Assembly and the Legis
la,i,e Council, according TO the recon-
pendation ot the Governor in his opening
speech, took into their serious eonsidera
ton the two Imperial acts which had beer
passed in EngIa the frs, in the Sd yea
and the second in the 9th year o the reg
OF King George the 4th, the first kn"ws
a. The Canada trade act and the secon,
as the Canada tenure act. Our reader
will remember that the first one wa
kind of arbitration between the Leglsla
lures OF Upper aud Lower Canada, and /
was therein enacted that no new dutie
should be imposed on merchandise by th'
Legislature OF Lower Canada unless will
the consent OF that of its sister-colony
The second act under the pretence OF es
tsbIishing The free and common soeeag
tenure in all The Townships aof Lowe
Canada, and OF facilitating The mutation
al Seigneurial tenure into the above, con
uihuled more than any other thing Z
throw confusion and doubt about that par
of the laws oil the country. The repor
Of the House exposed in a very able man
ner oil the defects and vices OF those tw
measures. and alluded 10 Tue impr"pnet
and the danger of the mother country's Ie
sgislsting for colony situated al So gres
distance, and of whose internal siIuatio
the Imperial Parliament must know bu
very little; whilst there existed in I'll
Colony itself q Legislature quite eompe
tent tn leaislate on these subjects.
The Legislative Council "a the oths
side made report disappearing the Car
sds trsds sei but a, the same time q,
proving the tenure act.
The House Of Assembly conscious Of III