0.

[12] "Ou qu'une loi puisse etre passee declarant qu'il n'y a point
d'esclavage dans la Province; ou telle autre provision concernant les
esclaves que cette Chambre, dans sa sagesse, jugera convenable." The
Act of 1799 providing for houses of correction (really the common
gaol) was 39 George II, c. 6 (L. C.), and was to be in force for two
years. It was amended and continued for four years by the Act (1802)
42 George III, c. 6 (L. C.) and again by (1806) 46 George III, c. 6
(L. C.), until January 1, 1810 when it expired.

[13] See ante, note 7. The effect of this Act was probably not as
stated. The slave of Mr. Fraser's was Robin alias Robert to be spoken
of _infra_, page.

[14] The two reasons given for the request are the familiar ones. The
petitioners had paid large sums for the slaves who had left them and
"they are all wholly convinced that that class of men really lazy
leading an idle and abandoned life would attempt to commit crime."

[15] The definitive treaty was in fact signed September 3, 1783, but
not ratified by Congress until January 14, 1784. The armistice had
been concluded January 20, 1783. In the definitive treaty, Article VII
contains the same provisions as to Negroes as the corresponding
article in the preliminary articles.

[16] Isle St. Jean so called from about the end of the sixteenth
century until 1798, when it was given the name Prince Edward Island
out of compliment to Prince Edward, Duke of Kent (father of Queen
Victoria), then commanding the British Forces in North America. The
name it still retains.

[17] The Judges were James Monk, Chief Justice and Pierre Louis Panet
and Isaac Ogden, Puisne Justices.

[18] Lafontaine ut supra, pp. 56-63. It has often been said that it
was Chief Justice Osgoode who gave the death blow to slavery in Lower
Canada. For example, in James P. Taylor's _Cardinal facts of Canadian
History_, Toronto, 1899, on p. 88 we find a statement that in 1803,
Chief Justice Osgoode in Montreal declared slavery inconsistent with
the laws of Canada. But Osgoode became Chief Justice of the Province
in July, 1794. Continuing as such Chief Justice, he became Chief of
the Court of King's Bench for the District of Quebec later on in the
same year on the coming into force of the Act of 1794, 34 George III,
c. 6, which erected two Courts of King's Bench one for each District.
James Monk became Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench for the
District of Montreal, which po