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In both the York and the Kingston issues the statutes of 1792 and 

 1793, are stated to have been passed at Niagara, but, as stated above, 

 the typewritten journals are dated at Newark. 



Mr. Thomas Langton, K.C., of Toronto, in connection witli this 

 matter, has called my attention to the following extract from "The 

 Travels of Isaac Weld (Vol. 2, pp. 87, 88, third edition, 1800), under 

 date of September, 1796. It will be an interesting addition to the his- 

 tory of the little town that was the meeting place of our First Legis- 

 lature, a place that has enjoyed so many names, its latiest, that of 

 " Niagara-on-the-Lake," having been given to its post office in March, 

 1903 : 



" On the eastern side of the river is situated the fort, now in the 

 possession of the people of the States, and on the opposite or British 

 side a town most generally known by the name of Niagara, notwith^ 

 standing that it has been named Newark by the Legislature. The 

 original name of the town was Niagara; it was afterwards called Lenox, 

 then Nassau, and afterward Newark. It is to be lamented that the 

 Indian names so grand and sonorous should ever have been changed for 

 others. Newark, Kingston, York are poor substitutes for the original 

 names of their respective places — Niagara, Cataraqui, Toronto. The 

 town of Niagara hitherto has been and still is the capital of the Pro- 

 vince of Upper Canada. Orders, however, had been issued before our 

 arrival there for the removal of the seat of Government from thence to 

 Toronto, which was deemed a more eligible spot for the meeting of the 

 legislative bodies as being further removed from the frontier of the 

 United States." 



Students of Canadian history will find interesting supplements to 

 this paper and to that of 1902 in The Transactions of the Canadian In- 

 stitute, April, 1892, Vol. II, Part 2. " The Administration of Lieut.- 

 Governor Simcoe viewed in his Official Correspondence," by Ernest 

 Cruikshank. 



And in No. 2, Vol. II of University of Toronto Studies, History and 

 Economics; "Municipal Government in Ontario," by Prof. Adam 

 Shortt. 



In The Globe of 24th October, 1903, will be found a very full and 

 authoritative discussion of the question as to where Parliament first 

 met, by Miss Janet Carnochan, president of the Niagara Historical 

 Society. 



The D. W. Smith election letter referred to on page 158, has just 

 been printed in Transaction No. 4 of the Women's Canadian Historical 

 Society of Toronto (1903). 



