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the Sherifl'law; contributing road districts; innocent— ly imagining thatland proprietorswould cashup,togive their tenants military effectiveness, under the plea of encouraging education; making more Bank law; sec- uring compensation to tenants to promote improvements oft/Le soil; establishing a Normal School; stirring up 1 the subject of Georgetown wharf; depriving Prince- town of the benefit ofits four-footed scavengers; con— tinuing emigrants’ Act; maintaining Customs estab— lishments; proceeding upon controverted elections; partitioning lands for co-parceners; appointing Road Correspondentassistance; continuing the limits of Jails Act; empowering surrogate to order certain payments; authorising additional coroners; making certain unstamped instruments admissable as evi- dence; incorporating Charlottetown Mechanics’ In- stitute; closing up old roads; altering highways; ap- pointing a Librarian to the Legislative Library; looking after the fisheries; preventing the running at large ol'hogs in the ann, Common and Royalty of Charlottetown; authorising pay for members of the Legislative Council; naturalising one MANN; licensing grog; INCORPORATING THE news or CHAR- LOTTE’I‘OWN, dividing the new CITY into five W'ards; vesting a Mayor and ten Common Councilmen with municipal powers; providingfines to be paid by per- sons elected to municipal functions, but refusing to serve, and otherwise elevating a “ one-horse" town to enlarged privileges, and powers; raising a reve- nue, and finally satisfying all wants in a. liberal list ofappropriations.

Lieut. Governor Daly continues his labors in 1856 with a revenue Act of CXIl. clauses; establishes conditions on which tavern licences are to be grant- ed; takes up subjects relating to weights and mea- sures; the mackerel fishery; buoys and beacons; in. creases the stock ofthe Charlottetown Gas Company; improves the law of evidence; explains matters con- cerning real estate; passes an Act for barring estates taiil; gives the Indians of Prince Edward: Island a chapter of law; touches up the Bank incorporation