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Niagara, Butlersburg, Lenox, Nassau and Newark. The officiai name 

 was Newark at the time of the sessions of the First Legislature. Lt.- 

 Gov. Simcoe him;self in his proclamation of July, 1792, named tbe town- 

 ship Newark, after Newark in Lincolnshire, England. Section 12, 

 chapter 8, of the 1792 statutes provided for the erection of a gaol at the 

 " Town of Newark," and section 3 of chapter 6 of the statutes of 1793, 

 provided for sittings of the sessions of the Peace for the Home district 

 at " Newark." The Lieutenant-Governor's proclamations and his an- 

 nouncements, as .a rule, were dated from " Navy Hall " or " Council 

 Room, Navy Hall," as though the little group of buildings near the 

 wharf, containing the provincial executive offices, were a place apart 

 from the people's settlement of Niagara or Newark. 



The first volume of Upper Canada statutes now available contains 

 the statutes-at-large from 1792 to 1804 inclusive, paged consecutively, 

 set up without break, but bearing on the title page "York, 1802." This 

 date may have been a typographical error, or there may have been an 

 earlier volume printed in 1802, and in the volume 1792-1804, the printer 

 may have repeated the former title page. After the year 1804 the 

 statutes were printed yearly, and our largest libraries contain bound 

 volumes that are miade up of statutes of the various years: thus at 

 Osgoode Hall, Toronto, is the compilation 1792-1804 with the title page 

 dated 1802; and in the Ontario Legislative Library are two volumes, 

 onie with the statutes for 1805, 1806, 1807 and 1808, bound up with the 

 1792-1804 collection, and the other having, in addition to the above, 

 the statutes for 1810 and 1811, together with the Imperial statutes 

 affecting Canada from 1774 to 1791. 



In the volume 1792-1804 the numbering of the sessions is corrrectly 

 given, except in nine headlines where fourth appears instead of third, 

 but in the volume printed at York in 1818, there is a curious mistake 

 that may mislead some writers. The volume is entitled " The Provin- 

 cial Statutes Revised, Corrected and Reprinted by Authority, York, 

 1818." The first, sieoond, third and fourth sessions of the First Parlia- 

 ment are correctly numbered. Then the fifth of the First is called the 

 First of the Second, and so on until we have the fourth session of the 

 Third in 1803, followed by the fourth session of the Third in 1804. The 

 compiler allowed the mistake to stand for the sessions of 1797 to 1803 

 inclusive. It may be that the pages had already been run off the press 

 when the mistake was corrected in 1804. Type was limited, no doubt, 

 and paper was scarce. The prin* ers' mistake occurred through the fact 

 that there were five sessions during the four years 1792-Î796. Thomp- 

 son and Macfarlanie corrected this mistake as to the numbering when 

 they issuied their revision of statutes at Kingston in 1831. 



