sion the House represented that if a Lieutenant-Governor of
the Province, with a salary of L1,500 a year, was necessary, he should
be resident in the province; that the Lieutenant-Governorship of Gaspe,
to which a salary of L300 a year was attached, was a sinecure; that the
Secretary of the Province, with a salary of L400 a year, resided in
London, while his duties were performed by a deputy, who only received
the fees incidental to the office; that the agent of the province, who
received L200 a year, did nothing for his salary, and had no services
to perform, being merely the agent of the Executive; and that it was
the opinion of the Assembly that no salary should be allowed to any of
the members of the Executive Council, non-resident in the province. It
was further represented that the offices of Judge of the Vice-Admiralty
and Judge of the Court of King's Bench were incompatible, and that the
offices of Judge of the King's Bench and of French Translator to the
Court could not be held by the same person. The exaction of fees, too,
by the Judge of the Vice-Admiralty, while he received a salary of L200
a year, in lieu of fees, was improper and contrary to law. And the
Governor-in-Chief was requested to effect remedies. On the 17th of
March, the session was prorogued. Lord Dalhousie could not express his
satisfaction at the general result of the Assembly's deliberations. He
regretted that the expectations of His Majesty, with respect to the
civil list, had not been realised. He was disappointed. The
administration of the civil government had been left without any
pecuniary means, but what he should advance upon his own personal
responsibility. Individuals would suffer under severe and unmerited
hardships, caused by the want of that constitutional authority
necessary for the payment of the expenses of the civil government; the
improvements of the country were nearly at a stand; and the executive
government was palsied and powerless. When parliament should be again
summoned for legislation, it would be summoned to decide whether
government should be restored to its constitutional energy, or whether
the prospect of lasting misfortune was to be deplored by a continuance
of the present state of things. The Assembly inwardly chuckled as the
Governor concluded his speech. All that they wanted had been in part
effected. The government had acknowledged itself to be constitutionally
dependent on the Assembly for its energy and for i