nting L799, as a provision for the contingent
expenses of both Houses of Parliament; an Act to relieve persons
holding lands in the district of Niagara, whose title deeds,
conveyances, or wills, had been destroyed when the enemy burnt the
town; an Act to continue the Act for the appointment of Returning
Officers; an Act to alter and extend the provisions of the Act granting
pensions to the widows and children of persons killed in the king's
service; an Act authorising the construction of a gaol and Court House
in the town of York; an Act to erect the District of Gore out of
certain parts of the Home and Niagara Districts; an Act granting L425
4s. 6d. to several inspectors who disbursed that amount for teamwork
and the apprehension of deserters; an Act to revive the Act affording
relief to persons entitled to claim lands in the province, as heirs or
devisees of the nominees of the Crown, in cases where no patent had
issued; an Act to grant annually, for four years, L470, as an increase
to the salaries of certain officers of the Council and Assembly; an Act
granting, L513 for the repair of certain highways; an Act appropriating
L800 for the purchase of books for the formation of a library for the
use of both Houses; an Act to continue an Act to facilitate the
circulation of Lower Canada army bills; an Act appropriating L2,500
annually for defraying the expenses of the civil administration of the
government; an Act to increase the salary of the present Speaker of the
Assembly, and to remunerate the present Speaker for past services,
granting L800 as four years' additional salary, and, in future, L200 to
be paid annually, in addition to the former annual payment of L200; an
Act regulating the trade between the United States and the province,
permitting the Governor to make regulations as to duties, but not
prohibiting the admission of wheat, flour, peas, beans, oats, barley,
and all other articles of provision and travellers' baggage; an Act to
continue for a limited time the provisional agreement entered into
between Upper and Lower Canada, relative to duties; an Act
appropriating L155 7s. 3d., to remunerate Elizabeth Wright, whose
husband was a tailor, for militia clothing; an Act appropriating L1,000
as an encouragement for the cultivation of hemp; an Act regulating the
police within the town of Kingston; an Act granting to His Majesty
duties on licences to hawkers, pedlars, and petty chapmen, and other
trading persons; L