ther that a furnished House had been taken for His
Excellency, at a yearly rent of L500, for which it was desirable that
the Assembly should provide. And the message concluded by recommending
the addition of L1,000 a year to the salary of His Excellency, which
was then only L1,500, so that with L2,500 a year, and house rent free,
he might live in becoming style. The Assembly cheerfully voted these
extra allowances to the Lieutenant-Governor. A bill was this session
passed, erecting, for judicial purposes, the Eastern Townships into the
Inferior District of St. Francis. There was to be a provincial court in
the district, and a resident judge, who was to have jurisdiction in
personal actions of L20 sterling. A Court of Quarter Sessions in the
district was also established. The bill was introduced into the
Assembly, and passed, to increase the representation, by giving the
Eastern Townships a representation precisely as recommended in the
contemplated Act of Union; but the Assembly, to counterbalance the
effect which might result from the introduction of six new members into
the Assembly, also created an overbalancing number of new French
constituencies. The Council consequently rejected the representation
bill. Then the estimates of supply were submitted by message. They had
been classed into two schedules. One comprehending the Governor,
Lieutenant-Governor, certain officers attached to the Governor-in-Chief,
including the provincial agent in London, the Surveyor General and
contingencies of his department; the judges and officers of the Courts;
the Executive Councillors (L100 a year each); the Clerk of the Council,
and the contingencies of his office and of the committee of audit;
the Inspector General of Accounts; the Receiver General's department;
and the Clerk of the Terrars, the whole sum to be supplied being
L32,083 11s. 3d. sterling. The second schedule included the local
establishments--the legislature and its officers; the cost of printing
the laws; the salaries to public schoolmasters; the pension list; rents
and repairs of public buildings, and the salaries and disbursements in
connection with such buildings; the expense of collecting the revenues:
the expenses of the Trinity House; the militia staff and contingencies;
the expenses for criminals and houses of correction; and miscellaneous
expenses, such as the salaries of the Grand Voyer and others, the
grants to residents on Anticosti, for the assistance of shi