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     Mott’s Chocolate, Grateful and Comforting. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     which he became a member and was leader in the upper 
     
     hou3e until the defeat of the party and their resignation 
     
     on the 22nd April, 1872. They were recalled to power 
     
     Within the year and he continued a member of the Govern- 
     
     ment from that time until the better terms of confederation 
     
     were secured and finally accomplished, when he resigned 
     
     his seat and accepted the position of provincial postmaster 
     
     general, 1st July, 1873. After confederation this office was 
     
     merged in that of post’ master of Charlottetown, although 
     
     still directing the provincial mail service. In 1881, he was 
     
     also appointed post office inspector for the Colony, and held 
     
     these offices until his appointment as Lieutenant Governor, 
     
     on 1st August, 1884a He was a delegate to the international 
     
     convention held at Por‘land U. 8., in 1868, and has been a 
     
     governor of the Prince of \Vales College, a trustee for the 
     
     Provincial Hospital for the Insane, a member of the 
     
     Board of Education, a member of the Board of Works, and 
     
     a member of the City School Board. In 1875, he was 
     
     appointed by the Government arbitrator to settle differences 
     
     between them and the contractors of the P. E. 1., Railway. 
     
     He was also public trustee under the land purchase Act 
     
     of 1875, and when the value had been awarded to the pro- 
     
     prietors by the Court of Connoissioners, but they had 
     
     refused to divest themselves of their titles, he executed 
     
     conveyances of upwards of Jiour thousand acres of their 
     
     property to the government, as provided in the land 
     
     purchase act. While in the legislature he assisted in passing 
     
     many of the most important acts on the provincial statute 
     
     l)OOk, and was one of the earliest advocates of the con- 
     
     Struction of the P. E. Island Railway, as a provincial work, 
     
     although it llIVOlVULl an expenditure of three million of 
     
     dollars by a provinc: whose ordinary revenue was only 
     
     three hundred thousand dollars, and whose population was 
     
     but one hundred thousand, but it was successfully accom- 
     
     plished and the cost borne by the province now enjoying 
     
     its benefits. Mr. MacDonald, like his fore fathers from time 
     
     1mmemorial, professes die itimmn L’stholfc faith. He is a. 
     
     member of the St. Vincent de l’aul society, for the relief of 
     
     the poor, and has been e'jiiei’ i the Caledonian Club for 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     J- P Mott (it 00., Importers. & Dealers in TEAS.