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representations on the existing charter of the university 'have attracted 

 the most serious attention of His Majesty's Govel-nment, and that the 

 opinions which may be expressed by the Legislative Council and the 

 House of Assembly on the subject' will not fail to receive the most prompt 

 and serious attention." Two years later in a speech before the House of 

 Commons on the petition forwarded by the House of Assembly, Sir 

 George Murray says : " I agree entirely in the objection which has 

 been taken to that part of the charter of King's College which introduces 

 a distinction, in the charter on the score of religion. While I was in 

 office I suspended the operations of the charter having in contemplation 

 to abolish entirely the distinction, and had I remained in office I should 

 certainly have done so." 



This suspension was probably the action taken by Sir John Colborne 

 already referred to, ordering that no further proceedings be taken under 

 the charter. But the council of the university by no means interpreted 

 the action of the Governor as a suspension of their powers. They pro- 

 ceeded to complete the purchase of lands included in the present uni- 

 versity park with its approaclies from Queen street and Yonge street, and 

 to make improvements on them; they also received and paid for the 

 plans and model of building ordered from England. The salaries of the 

 various officers and the disposal of the endowment lands proceeded as 

 before, and the grant of £1,000 v/as regularly received until the close of 

 the year 1831. 



In January, 1830, an address from the House of Assembly to the 

 Lieutenant Governor asked for a return of the receipts and expenditures 

 on account of the endowments of King's College. In answer to this 

 request some return seems to have been made accompanied by objections 

 to the right of the House to ask for such account. A similar request 

 from the British House of Commons in the same year elicited only îdi 

 exceedingly general and meagre return. In the same session a bill was 

 introduced into the House of Assembly to incorporate Upper Canada 

 College with the style and privileges of a university, constituted on the 

 liberal basis which the House would have desired for King's College. 

 This bill passed the House in ]\Iarch, but was rejected by the Legislative 

 Council. In the following year the entire management of Upper Canada 

 College was transferred from the Board of Education to the Council of 

 King's College. In February, 1831, alter report of a select committee 

 of the House of Assembly on the original grant of lands for the purposes 

 of education, resolutions for an address to His Majesty the King were 

 adopted setting forth, " that while this House appreciates His Majesty'g 

 gracious intention in granting a royal charter for the establishment of 

 a university in this province, we must humbly beg leave to represent 

 that. 



