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may have the same control and power in ap- propriating the public monies of the colony as the Houses of Assembly in His Majesty’s provinces of Nova Scotia and New Bruns~ wick, for many years have had, within those provinces.”

An address was thenadopted to the Lieu- tenant-Govemor, requesting him to forward the address to the Prince Regent, which His Excellency promised to do.

On 8th January, 1819, his Excellency prorogued the House, and so closed a very interesting and exciting session.

Soon afterwards he dissolved the House, and a general election was held. Fourteen of the members of the late House were re- elected. The new House proved as independ- ent and tenacious of its rights and privi- leges as was its predecessor. Dr. Angus McAulay was elected speaker. It met on 25th July, and was summarily prorogued on 10th August.

On the 29th July, it was ordered by the House that the speaker lay before the House a communication to him, as speaker of the late House, by'His Excellency, the Lieutenant-Govemor, enclosing an extract from a despatch from Earl Bathurst, dated 19th November, 1819, and the answer, if any, received from the late Duke of Rich- mond on the subject of the address to the Prince Regent. The speaker, therefore, laid before the House his letter to the late Duke and His Grace’s reply, and also a message from the Lieutenant-Governor to him, en- closing an extract from adespatch from Earl Bathurst, dated 13th November, 1819. An address to the Lieutenant-Governor was then prepared, requesting His Excellency to cause to be laid before the House a copy of the declaration of persons present in the

House of Assembly on the 15th December, 1818, alluded to in the extract from Earl Bathurst’s despatch.

The Lieutenant-Governor, “on the most mature consideration,” refused to give any further information to the House of As- sembly, than he felt it his duty to give to a former House, on a matter peculiarly re- lating to themselves. A committee ap- pointed to consider the several documents relative to Earl Bathurst’s despatch. and His Excellency’s message in answer to the House's addresses, reported that they found the resolutions made -by the late House, on 15th December, 1818, alluded to in said de- spatch, were made and passed by that House, in a regular and constitutional man- ner, previous to an adjournment, with the consent of the House, and not by the mem- bers subsequently assembled in an irregular and unconstitutional manner, as allege-Kin a private declaration of persons, transmit- ted to Earl Bathurst; and the committee also found that the address of the late House, of the 5th January, 1819, to the Prince Regent, referring to the said reso— lutions, was unanimously agreed to by the House. at which time Lieutenant-Governor Smith did not suggest that House to have been unconstitutionally convened. This re- port was agreed to by the House.

The Assembly next adopted and pre- sented to His Excellency an address. re- questing him to communicate to the House the answer, if any, received from the secre- tary of state, to the address of 8th Decem- ber, 1818, relative to Chief Justice Tremlitt. In reply, the Lieutenant-Govemor said that he had received a despatch from Earl Bathurst on the subject, bearing date 11th

May, 1819, in substance asfollows: