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     the Lieutenant Governor was formerly Chancellor, and the 
     
     judicial powers of which are exercised by the Master of the Rolls 
     
     and the Vice Chancellor; a Court of Marriage and Divorce. insti- 
     
     tuted in 1836, of which the Lieutenant Governor and Members 
     
     of the Executive Council are Judges (this exists as yet but in 
     
     name); a Court of Vice-Admiralty with one Judge (the Chief 
     
     Justice); a Court of Probate and Wills with one Judge; three 
     
     County Courts with one Judge for each; a City Court in Char- 
     
     lottetown with one Judge; and Stipendiary Magistrates and 
     
     Justices of the Peace. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Prince Edward Island has authority to make its own civil 
     
     laws, but in all criminal cases the form employed by the Courts 
     
     is the Criminal Law of the Dominion. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Chief Justices 
     
    
   
   
    
     Appointed 
     
     John Duport. September 19,1770 
     
     Peter Stewart, June 23, 1776 
     
     Thomas Cochrane, October 24, 1801 
     
     Robert Thorpe, November 10, 1802 
     
     Casar Colclough, May I, 1807 
     
     Thomas Tremlett, April 6, 1813 
     
     S. G. \V. Archibald, August 7, 1824 
     
     E. J. Jarvis, August ‘30, 1828 
     
     Sir Robert Hodgson, April 2, 1853 
     
     Edward Palmer, July 7, 1874 
     
    
   
   
    
     William Wilfred Sullivan, November 12, 1889 
     
    
   
   
    
     FEDERAL REPRESENTATION 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Province is represented in the Dominion Parliament by 
     
     four Senators, and by five Members in the House of Commons. 
     
    
   
   
    
     THE MILITKA 
     
    
   
   
    
     In Military affairs the Island is the Twelfth District of 
     
     Canada. The established strength of the active force by arms 
     
     is composed of five companies of Garrison Artillery, one double 
     
     company of Engineers, and eight companies of Infantry, a total 
     
     of 60 officers and 646 non-commissioned officers and men.