0s. 8d. for the clerks
and for the contingencies of the last session of parliament; an Act in
part repealing and in part altering and amending an Act providing for
the appointment of parish and town officers; an Act to continue the Act
making provision for certain sheriffs; and an Act to enable the
commissioner of gaol delivery and Oyer and Terminer to proceed,
although the Court of King's Bench be sitting in the Home District, for
which they are commissioned.

This parliament was prorogued suddenly and unexpectedly, on the 7th of
April, 1817. The sudden prorogation was resorted to because the
Assembly had, on the 3rd of April, resolved itself into a committee of
the whole to take into consideration the state of the province. The
propriety or expediency of preventing immigration from the United
States, was to be discussed; the management of the Post Office
establishment was to be examined into; the manner of the disposal of
the Crown and Clergy Reserves was to be looked at; and the granting
lands to the volunteer flank companies, and the incorporated militia
who served during the late war, was to be investigated. It was resolved
to present an address to the Lieutenant-Governor, requesting him to
inform the Assembly, whether any orders had been received from England,
making an allotment of lands to the volunteer and incorporated militia,
who served during the war. The Assembly further resolved that an Act
had been passed in the reign of George the Second, for naturalizing
such foreign protestants as were then or should thereafter be settled
in any of His Majesty's colonies in North America; that an Act had been
passed in the thirtieth year of the reign of George the Third, for
encouraging new settlers in His Majesty's North American colonies; and
that these Acts were expressly enacted for facilitating and encouraging
the settlement of His Majesty's American dominions.

The good resolutions of the Assembly were, however, frustrated by His
Excellency the Governor, who, having assented to several bills, and
reserved for His Majesty's pleasure, a bill for a Bank and another to
enable creditors to sue joint debtors separately, summoned the Commons
to the Bar of the Legislative Council, and thus addressed the
Parliament:--The session of the legislature has been protracted by an
unusual interruption of business at its commencement and your longer
absence from your respective avocations must be too great a sacrifice
for the ob