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Frank and here he spent, the summers of 1794 and ITDo. The U. C. 

 Gazette of July, 1794, has' an advertisement calling for carpenters for 

 buildings at York, whether for legislative purposes or for barracks for 

 the Queen^s Eangers, we cannot say. The elections were held in August, 

 and soon after, on 11th September, Simcoe obtained leave of absence. 

 The announcement was made that Peter Eussell, Esq., the senior 

 member of the Executive Council, had been appointed administrator 

 under the title of President. This office he filled till 1799, when he was 

 succeeded by Hon. Peter Hunter as Lieut.-Governor. In August, of 

 that year, the latter arrived at York on the Government vessel " The 

 Spieedy." In addition to being Lieut.-Governor of Upper Canada, he 

 was Commander-in-Chief of the King's forces in Canada, which neces- 

 sitated frequent trips to Quebec. 



The following are the dates of the four sessions of the second 

 Legislature : — 



1st Session, 16th May to 3rd July, 1797. 



2nd " 5th June to 5th July, 1798. 



3rd " 5th June to 29th June, 1799. 



4th " 2nd June to 4th July, 1800. 



All these sessions were held at York. I have seen the statement 

 that the third was held at Newark, but the minutes' of both the Assem- 

 bly and the Council bear date at York. The records of the first session 

 are not obtainable. Typewritten copies of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th are 

 available for reference in the Legislative Library, Toronto. 



It may be interesting to give the list of returning officers for the 

 second general election : — 



Eastern District Oornelius Munro, 



Leeds and Fnontenac, Ontario and Adding- 



'ton, Prince Edward and Adolphusitown. .Poole Eng'land. 



Lrenox, Hastings and North uimiberland B. Crawford. 



2nd, 3rd and 4th Lincolns and Counties of 



Durham and York Half pay officer to be recom- 



imended by Beasley. 

 Suffolk, Essex and Kent Richard Pollard. 



The constituencies remained the same as had been fixed by Simcoe's 

 Proclamation of July, 1792. By it the nineteen counties were arranged 

 to elect sixteen representatives and I propose now to give a few notes 

 as to these sixteen members. 



Glengarry.- — The two brothers, Hugh Macdonell and John Mac- 

 donell, had been selected as representatives of the first and second rid- 

 ings of Glengarry in the First Legislative Assembly. Col. John Mac- 

 donell had been Speaker. On the 9th of June, 1798, Col. John Mac- 

 donell was sworn in as one of the members for Glengarry, and took his 



