DOMINION OF CANADA. 



DURBIN, JOHN P. 



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ing Indians (known as the " Indian act," 1876), 

 one amending the Dominion land acts, our 

 making furiluT |in>vi-ion in rvgard to the 8u- 

 pri-iiir Court and the Exchequer Court of Can- 

 ada, and OIK- aim-iidiii;,' tlu- insolvent act of 

 1875. An important act sets apart the ea>trni 



KIN08TOIC, CANADA. 



portion of the Northwest Territories "as a 

 separate district of the said Northwest Terri- 

 tories by the name of the District of Keewa- 

 tin." The Lieutenant- Governor of Manitoba is 

 ex officio Lieutenant - Governor of Keewatin. 

 The district is bounded as follows : " Beginning 

 at the westerly boundary of the Province of 

 Ontario on the international boundary-line di- 

 viding Canada from the United States of Amer- 

 ica ; then westerly, following upon the said in- 

 ternational boundary-line to the easterly boun- 

 dary of the Province of Manitoba; thence due 

 north along the said easterly boundary of Mani- 

 toba to the northeast angle of the said province ; 

 thence due west on the north boundary of the 

 said province to the intersection by the said 

 boundary of the westerly shore of Lake Mani- 

 toba ; thence northerly, following the said west- 

 erly shore of the said lake to the easterly ter- 

 minus thereon of the portage connecting the 

 southerly end of Lake Winnepegosis with the 

 said Luke Manitoba, known as the Meadow 

 Portage ; thence westerly, following upon the 

 trail of the said portage to the westerly ter- 

 minus of the same, being on the easterly shore 

 of the said Lake Winnepegosis ; thence north- 

 erly, following the line of the said easterly shore 

 of the said lake to the southerly end of the 

 portage, leading from the head of the said lake 

 into Cedar Lake, known as the Cedar or ' Mor- 

 ry Portage ; ' thence northerly, following the 

 trail of the said portage to the north end of 

 the same on the shore of Cedar Lake ; thence 

 due north to the northerly limits of Canada; 

 thence easterly, following upon the said north- 

 erly limits of Canada to the northerly extrem- 



ity of Hudson's Bay ; thence southerly, follow- 

 ing upon the westerly shore of the said Hud 

 son's Bay to the point where it would be inter- 

 sected by a line drawn due north from the 

 place of beginning, and thence due south on 

 the said last-mentioned line to the said place 

 of beginning." The es- 

 timated expenditures of 

 the Province of Ontario, 

 for the financial year 

 ending December 81, 

 1877, are as follows : 

 For civil government, 

 $157,374 ; legislation, 

 $126,750 ; administra- 

 tion of justice,$276,222.- 

 50 ; education, $557,- 

 465 ; public institutions, 

 maintenance, $437,843; 

 immigration, $63,137.- 

 42 ; agriculture, arts, lit- 

 erary and scientific insti- 

 tutions, $101,850 ; hos- 

 pitals and charities, 

 $59,610.90 ; miscella- 

 neous expenditure, $35,- 

 700; unforeseen and un- 

 provided, $50,000 ; pub- 

 lic buildings, $354,427.- 

 14; public works, $38,- 

 400 ; colonization roads, $77,090 ; charges on 

 crown-lands, $91,600; refund account, $104,- 

 319.27 ; services in 1875 (balance), $19,223.87: 

 total, $2,540,223.10, viz.: for current expen- 

 diture for 1877, $1,983,752.82 ; on capital ac- 

 count, $432,927.14; for other purposes, $123,- 

 543.14. 



DURBIN, JOHN PEICE, D. D., the well- 

 known pulpit orator and Corresponding Secre- 

 tary of the Methodist Episcopal Missionary 

 Society, was born in Bourbon County, Ken- 

 tucky, in 1800; died in New York, October 17, 

 1876. At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed 

 to a cabinet-maker, and a few years later entered 

 the itinerant ministry of the Methodist Church. 

 He studied at Miami University while preach- 

 ing at Hamilton, Ohio, graduated at Cincinnati 

 College, and soon after was appointed Pro- 

 fessor of Languages in Augusta College, Ken- 

 tucky. In 1831 he was elected chaplain of the 

 United States Senate, and in 1832 became editor 

 of the Christian Advocate and Journal. In 

 1834 he was elected President of Dickinson 

 College, at Carlisle, Pa., and during his incum- 

 bency made an extensive tour of observation 

 in Europe and the East. As member of the 

 General Conference of 1844 he was a prominent 

 actor in the great contest on slavery which di- 

 vided the Church. Retiring from his office in 

 1845, he was pastor of churches in Phila- 

 delphia, and was also presiding elder of the 

 Philadelphia District. He was Secretary of 

 the Missionary Society from 1860 to 1872, 

 when he retired in consequence of physical in- 

 firmity. To his labors was largely due the 

 establishment of missions in India, Bulgaria, 



