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out all the words after “that”, and substitute the following. “The Rev. Dr. Jack Jenkins be Cha lain again for the fourth term." And of course they had the “Ayes" and the “Nayes’ and Dr. Jack Jenkins was put out as Chaplain and the Government held, and Mr. Sutherland became the Chaplain for the first time in that year. So the next day in the Assembly the row started between the man from the Fourth District of Kings, Mr. Duncan, and a man from the Fifth District of Kings who called him a “liar”. And from there they had him come before the bar, come before the Privileges Committee and finally the Junior Member from the Fifth District of Kings was taken to the Queens County Jail, 'by the Sgt.-at-Arms, kept there for five days, when he asked for pardon. He was brought before the Bar of the Assembly and by a vote of the Assembly they agreed to pardon him, providing he would mind his parliamentary pro- cedure in the future.

J. Cyril Sinnott: Would the honourable speaker permit a question? Honourable M. Lorne Bonnell: Yes.

J. Cyril Sinnott: Would the member from Fifth Kings be asked to be trans- ferred to Georgetown jail?

Honourable M. Lorne Bonnell: There was no Georgetown jail at that time. (Laughter) About the only thing that was going on at Georgetown at that time was a lot of rum coming in, and they were collecting quite a bit of duty. It was quite a port, building ships, but there is nothin mentioned in this about building ships in George- town. There was some lady down t ere t a pound a ear, for poor money, and there was one lady from there who was in t e lunatic asy um because of love sickness. (Laughter) Also in this very same year, Mr. Speaker, a letter was received from Downing Street with reference to the Confederation of Canada and of the provinces, and apparently the year before, in 1862, a Resolution was passed in Nova Scotia ask- ing Her Majesty Queen Victoria to consider the amalgamation of the provinces into a Maritime Union or into a greater union with the other provinces of Canada. The gen- tleman who was doing all the correspondence on behalf of Her Majesty, by the name of Newcastle, wrote back and sent a copy of the letter from Nova Scotia, and it is in- teresting to note, “WHEREAS the subject of Union of the North American provinces or of the Maritime provinces of British America has been from time to time mooted and discussed in all the Colonies; AND WHEREAS many advantages may be secured 'by such a union, either of these provinces or a portion of them, many and serious obstacles are tpresented which can only be overcome by mutual consultation of the leading men 0 the Colony and by free communication with the Imperial Government; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor be respectfully requested to put himself in communication with His Grace, the Colonial Secretary, and His Excellency the Govemor-General, and the Lieutenant Governor of the North American Provinces in order to ascertain the policy of Her Majesty’s Gov- ernment, and the opinions of other Colonies with a view to enlightenin consideration of the question involving the highest interests, and upon which the pubic mind in all the provinces ought to be set at rest.” And then they wrote back and so forth and it goes on to talking about a union of the Colonies of Canada or of a Maritime Union and it is very interesting that this lady should happen to come from the Fifth District of Kings, should happen to be a stron Conservative supporter and thought that her Jun- ior Member should be taken to the ueens County Jail as happened in the year of 1863.

Now, Mr. Speaker, I have sat in this Assembly for quite a few years and during all these years we have heard about Alberton, we have heard about Annandale, we have heard about Cra aud, we have heard about Summerside, we have heard about O’Leary, but for the sat six weeks, apparently, the Opposition forgot about all the rest of the province and think only of Georgetown. We are here not representing Georgetown alone, but we are here to represent the people of all Districts of this prov- ince and all villages and communities. (Agplause) And we should be discussing these areas and not put all our eggs in one asket and spend all our time on one com~ munity, on Georgetown, and because of this, I noticed this going on for the first three weeks, I put a little packet out with a map of Prince Edward Island on it so Members would realize that there are many other areas besides Georgetown for their discussion and their interest.

One of the areas of interest is Souris, and I would like to say at this time that we had quite a catastrophe in Souris when we lost the “Iceland II”. A young lady who

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