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MANITOBA, PROVINCE OF. Government. The 



Lieutenant-Governor is James Cox Aikins ; 

 Premier and President of Council, J. Norquay ; 

 Attorney-General, C. E. Hamilton ; Minister of 

 Public Works, D. H. Wilson ; Provincial Sec- 

 retary, 0. P. Brown; Minister of Agriculture, 

 D. H. Harrison; Provincial Treasurer, A. C. 

 La Rivi&re. 



Population. By the census taken July 31, 

 1886, the total population of the province was 

 108,640. By the census taken April 4. 1881, 

 the population was 65,954, showing an in- 

 crease of 64'7 per cent, in the five years. 



Railway Charters. The bills passed by the 

 Manitoba Legislature in 1886 to incorporate 

 the Manitoba Central and Winnipeg and South- 

 ern Railway companies having been disallowed 

 by the Dominion Government, the Legislature 

 passed an act authorizing the construction of 

 the Red River Valley Railway as a Provincial 

 Government undertaking. This act also being 

 disallowed, the Provincial Government pro- 

 ceeded to build a railway under the public 

 works act. The Dominion Government there- 

 upon applied for and obtained an injunction 

 against the building of the line under the public 

 works act. A threatening agitation followed, 

 the persistence of the Dominion Government 

 in the policy of disallowance being regarded 

 by the people of the province as an unwarrant- 

 able interference with provincial rights, and as 

 seriously detrimental to the interests of the 

 province. The right of disallowing Manitoba 

 railway charters is not exercised by the Do- 

 minion Government, as is frequently held, by 

 virtue of the Canadian Pacific Railway act, 

 but under the Britisli North America act. which 

 gives the Dominion Government the right of 

 disallowing all provincial legislation. The 

 Canadian Pacific Railway act does indeed pro- 

 vide that for a period of twenty years from 

 Feb. 17, 1870, no line of railway shall be 

 authorized by the Dominion Parliament to be 

 constructed south of the Canadian Pacific Rail- 

 way, from any point at or ne:ir that railway, nor 

 within fifteen miles of the United States unless 

 such line shall run west or west of southwest, 

 boundary. But this provision could not apply 

 to the old province of Manitoba, because under 

 the British North America act the right to leg- 

 islate with regard to railways entirely within 

 a province appertains to the legislature of that 

 province. Although not compelled by the 

 terms of the Canadian Pacific charter to dis- 

 allow the railway acts of the Manitoba Legisla- 

 ture, the Dominion Government deemed it in 

 the interests of the Dominion, and particularly 

 of eastern Canada, which has spent so much- 

 money in the development of the Northwest, 

 to exercise its veto power in order to protect 

 the Canadian Pacific Railway from American 

 competition, and to prevent the traffic of the 

 Northwest being diverted from the eastern 

 ports of Canada. The Red River Valley Rail- 

 way was intended to run from Winnipeg to 

 West Lynne on the international boundary, a 



distance of sixty miles. The line was partly 

 built, but, as the Provincial Government failed 

 to raise the necessary funds (owing, doubtless, 

 to the lack of security offered, through the un- 

 dertaking being illegal), the contractors aban- 

 doned the work. 



MARYLAND. State Government. The follow 

 ing were the State officers during the year: 

 Governor, Henry Lloyd, Democrat; Secretary 

 of State, E. W. Le Compte ; Treasurer, Steven- 

 son Archer; Comptroller, J. Frank Turner; 

 Attorney-General, Charles B. Roberts; Secre- 

 tary of State Board of Education, M. A. Newell 

 Tax Commissioner, Levin Woolford ; Chief- 

 Justice of the Court of Appeals, Richard A. 

 Alvey ; Associate Justices, James M. Robin- 

 son, John Ritchie, Levin T. H. Irving, William 

 S. Bryan, Frederick Stone, George Yellott, and 

 Oliver Miller. 



Finances. The following statement exhibits 

 the condition of the State treasury during the 

 year: 



Total receipts for year ending Sept. 30, 1887 ... $2,440.363 58 

 Balance Sept. 30, 1886 616,576 34 



Total $.3,056,939 87 



Disbursements for the fiscal year 2,374,916 67 



Balance Sept. 80, 1887 $682,023 20 



Of the receipts the sum of $463,373 was re- 

 ceived on account of the " Exchange Loan of 

 1886," reducing the income from ordinary 

 sources to $1,976,990.53. While this amount 

 is about $18,000 less than the receipts for the 

 year 1886, the difference is accounted for by 

 the reduction in the -cost of marriage licenses 

 from $4 to 50 cents. The amount received in 

 1886 from this source was $24,226 ; the amount 

 received in 1887 only $4,491. Of the disburse- 

 ments the sum of $329,744 was expended in 

 the redemption of State stock. The sum of 

 $301.826 was transferred from the treasury for 

 the purchase of stock for the sinking fund. 

 The further sum of $34,069 surplus revenue 

 was transferred to the free-school fund, and 

 the sum of $20,313 was expended in enlarging 

 the State-house. Deducting these items, it will 

 be seen that the ordinary expenses of the Gov- 

 ernment for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 

 1887, were $1,689,063. This is a small in- 

 crease over expenses of the two previous years. 



The debt of the State on September 30 ag- 

 gregated $10,960,535. The State holds stocks 

 and bonds on which interest or dividends are 

 paid, amounting to the sum of $5,299,301. 

 The net debt of the State on Sept. 30, 1886, 

 was $6,113,159, which shows a total reduction 

 during the fiscal year 1887 of $451,925. The 

 total reduction of the last four years has been 

 $1,624,657. 



Before the meeting of the next Legislature 

 the sterling debt, payable in gold, amounting 

 to $4,001,11 1, will fall due. No special tax has 

 ever been laid for the redemption of this, and 

 therefore there is no sinking fund for its pay- 

 ment. The debt was created in 1838 for the 

 purpose of raising money to enable the State 



