Upper Canada is indicated by the first bill of
the session--an Act granting L25,000 for amending and repairing the
public highways of the province, and awarding L25 to each road
commissioner in compensation for his services. There were in all
eighteen Acts passed. Provision was made for proceeding to outlawry in
certain cases. An Act was passed for the relief of Barristers and
Attornies, and to provide for the admission of Law Students within the
Province; L100 was granted to Mr. Sheriff Merritt, of the Niagara
District; a new Assessment Act was passed; the Act to provide for the
maintenance of persons disabled, and for the widows and children of
persons killed in action was explained and amended. Isaac Swayze,
Esquire, having been robbed of L178 5s. 8d., was exonerated from the
payment of it; L6,000 was granted for the rebuilding and repair of
gaols and Court Houses in the Western, London and Niagara Districts,
each L2,000; an Act was passed to remove doubts with respect to the
authority under which the Courts of General Quarter Sessions had been
erected and holden; an Act to license practitioners in physic and
surgery throughout the province, providing for the appointment of a
Board of Surgeons to examine applicants, and imposing a penalty of L100
for practicing without license, but excepting from the application of
the Act such as had taken a degree at any University in His Majesty's
dominions, was passed; L292 was granted to repay advances on team-work,
and for the apprehension of deserters by certain Inspectors of
Districts; L1,500 was granted to provide for the accommodation of the
legislature at its next session; L6,090 was granted for the uses of the
incorporated militia; L111 11s. 7d. was granted for the Clerks of
Parliament; L1,700 was appropriated to the erection of a monument to
the memory of the late Major-General Sir Isaac Brock; the Quarter
Sessions Act was again amended; L400 was repaid to the Honorable James
Bayley, which he had paid for hemp delivered to him as a commissioner
for the purchase of that commodity; and an Act incorporating the
Midland District School Society. On the 25th of April, Lieutenant-General
Sir George Murray, Baronet, superseded Sir Gordon Drummond, K.C.B., in
the command, civil and military, of Upper Canada, and on the 1st of
July, in the same year, the civil and military command of the Upper
Province devolved upon Major-General Sir Frederick P. Robinson, K.C.B.,
who held the rein