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quently, until he found apparently it was vain to attempt to hold his 
seat in the House. The agitation for the payment of the members of 
the Assembly was crushed by the passage of a law to that effect rejected 
by the Legislative Council, leading to the insertion of the amount in 
the supply bill, which was also rejected, exposing the whole government 
of the colony to the greatest embarrassment. The other principal topics 
dealt with in the preliminary report are those relating to immigration, to 
the question of trans-Atlantie steam navigation, proposed in 1825, being 
additional to the information contained in the report for 1898. Banking, 
extension of the feudal tenure, the clergy reserves, education in the two 
provinces, the Upper Canadian colleges as political forces, etc. The 
papers published in full are those relating to the clergy reserves, to 
education in the Canadas and to the civil and other establishments of 
Upper Canada. 
The calendars for both provinces cover the same period, namely, 
from 1829 to 1831, and show clearly the subjects dealt with in the 
volumes, so that it is unnecessary to do more than refer to them. 
Mr. Richard’s report on his proceedings in Paris, with a summary 
of the papers he examined there, is also published in the report op 
Archives for 1899. 
9. GRANTS TO AUTHORS FOR SPECIAL SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION. 
The Council recommend that a grant of $100 be made to the Third 
Section for special researches into some important department of scien- 
tific study and investigation as may be recommended by that body. A 
similar grant was made with satisfactory results to the Fourth Section 
two years ago. The results of these investigations are to be first sub- 
mitted to and published by the Society. 
10. A SUMMARY oF LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC WORK. 
The Council draw special attention to the advisability of having 
prepared each year by the tenth of May a short summary of the literary 
and scientific work done in Canada during the preceding twelve months. 
Some competent member in each section could be selected to prepare 
such a summary, which should be made as short as possible and not 
contain any criticism or opinions, but simply be confined to a list of 
books, pamphlets and essays, with a synopsis of their nature for a refer- 
ence, when necessary, to any important scientific discovery or sugges- 
tion in Canada. If necessary, the section could recommend a small 
payment to be made to the writers of these summaries, in order to 
