Legislative Assembly- Some Member : Why didn't you do it? Hon . Robert E. Campbell : Sunk enough in Georgetown . Hon . J. Elmer Blanchard : It is an actual fact that you had promised the City of Charlottetown to pay tax grants in lieu of taxes, or on the other system which you .... M. Alban Farmer : No, we said we were going to have a system, we were going to put in a system of paying the taxes on city properties, that's what we were going to ... . that's what we told them. Hon . J. Elmer Blanchard : You told them that? M. Alban Farmer :.. Yes, we did, we did, and that was, as I say, initiated and started, and the study was made. Now .... Hon . J. Elmer Blanchard : It can be verified? M. Alban Farmer : I would think so, I don't see any reason why it couldn't. Now here, we have, here we have .... Several Members: (Remarks inaudible) Walter R. Shaw : Mr. Speaker , order. M. Alban Farmer : Here we have these two boys over here who are getting pretty uncomfortable because John Nicholson gets up and says .... Walter R. Shaw : Ha, ha. M. Alban Farmer : .... the intolerable situation of the Provincial govern¬ ment to recognize their just obligations to the City. I submit that the payment of taxes on the City property is only a fair and just obligation. It has been .... Walter R. Shaw : Why didn't you do it? Some Member : Why didn't you do something. M. Elban Farmer: Why didn't you do something? The submission was made to you. Hon . J. Elmer Blanchard : We brought the submission .... Several Members: (Remarks inaudible) L. George Dewar : Couldn't do it. Walter R. Shaw : No. Some Member : (Remark inaudible) M. Alban Farmer : You're guilty; you're guilty. Walter R. Shaw : They look guilty too. Hon . J. Elmer Blanchard : We are giving them $22,500 this year, this com¬ ing May. M. Alban Farmer : I didn't hear you. Honourable J. Elmer Blanchard : They are going to get $22,500 this year. M. Alban Farmer : For what? Hon . J. Elmer Blanchard : A continuation of the grant that we gave, but it was supposed to end that past year. M. Alban Farmer : What was supposed to end? Hon . J. Elmer Blanchard : The annual grant given on the amalgamation of and Charlottetown . —176—