Charlottetown's Third Market.

tection, fire control, lighting, and the regulation of markets and amusement houses. The council was to set up committees from among its members to perform certain tasks subject to the control of the Council, and appoint a clerk, treasurer, city marshall, assessors, constables, and other clerks. When the first meeting of the Council was held on August 15th, John Lawson was sworn in as Recorder, W. B. Wellner as Clerk, and Michael O’Hara as City Marshall.

“Tuesday 7th August, will be a memorable day in the history of Charlottetown”, said Haszard’s Gazette at the time, “and will, we cannot suffer ourselves for a moment to doubt, be the commencement of an era of increased prosperity to the new city. The law invests the Mayor and Common Council with very extensive powers and it will be their duty to use these powers with discretion” . . . “ every member should recollect that though he be mortal, the Corporation, of which he is a part, is destined to immortality, and that the work ordered by the Corporation should be in accordance with this difference, so that, though the original founders have mould- ered in the dust, the monuments of their good government

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