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DOMINION OF CANADA. 



To amend the act to incorporate the Buffalo and 

 Fort Erie Bridge Company. 



To incorporate the Eastern Trust Company. 



To amend the Wrecks and Salvage act. 



To incorporate the Ocean Guarantee Company. 



To incorporate the Canada Northwest Land Com- 

 pany. 



To incorporate the Cleveland. Port Stanley and 

 London Transportation and Railway Company, and 

 to confirm an agreement respecting the London and 

 Port Stanley Railway. 



To incorporate the Automatic Telephone and Elec- 

 tric Company of Canada. 



To incorporate the Canada Atlantic and Plant 

 Steamship Company. 



To incorporate the Canadian Gas Association. 



To incorporate the Canadian Live Stock Insurance 

 Association. 



To incorporate the North American Canal Com- 

 pany. 



To amend the criminal code, 1892. 



To amend the act respecting the Royal Military 

 College. 



To amend the act respecting ocean steamship sub- 

 sidies. 



Relating to the granting of subsidies in land to 

 railway companies. 



To amend the Homestead Exemption act. 



To prevent the manufacture and sale of filled or 

 imitation cheese, and to provide for the branding of 

 dairy products. 



Collection of the Revenue. The following 

 sums required for the service of the Dominion 

 for the year ending June 30, 1894, were granted 

 by Parliament at its last session : Customs : Nova 

 Scotia, $115,720; New Brunswick, $90,260; Prince 

 Edward Island, $19,475 ; Quebec, $210.345 ; On- 

 tario, $303,080: Manitoba, $33,300; Northwest 

 Territories, $5.200; British Columbia, $59,495; 

 miscellaneous, $61,600. Excise, $480,647. Rail- 

 ways: Intercolonial Railway, $3,200.000: Wind- 

 sor Branch Railway, $30,000; Prince Edward 

 Island Railway, $250,000. Canals : Repairs and 

 working expenses, $522,800 ; salaries, etc., $43.- 

 000; miscellaneous, $15,000. Post-Office: Mail 

 service, $2,046,842; salaries, etc., $1,185,420; mis- 

 cellaneous, $206,120; mail subsidies and steam- 

 ship subventions, $438,000.' 



Included in the last item is $103,000 for lines 

 of steamers running between the ports of Halifax 

 and St. John or either, and the West Indies and 

 South America. 



Senate of Canada, salaries and contingent 

 expenses, $61,488 (this does not include the 

 sessional allowance of $1,000 granted for life to 

 each member of this body) ; House of Commons, 

 $183,094; imigration, $170,000; lighthouse and 

 coast service, $527,110; ocenn and river serv- 

 ice. $206,900; scientific institutions and hydro- 

 graphic surveys, $68,150 ; geological survey, $60,- 

 000 ; Northwest mounted police, $625,000 ; gov- 

 ernment of Northwest Territories, $257,650; 

 pensions, $33,192 ; militia, $1,216,382. Canals : 

 Saulanges, $1,000,000: Cornwall, 530,000; Rapid 

 Plat. $275,000; Galops, $250,000; Sault Ste. 

 Marie, $1.906,000; St. Lawrence River and 

 Canals, $250,000. 



The preceding list of sums voted for the pres- 

 ent fiscal year does not include the large annual 

 grants to railways, Indians, public works, ad- 

 ministration of justice, etc., and even in the 

 items mentioned it can not claim to be perfect. 



Revenue, Expenditure, and Debt. The fol- 

 lowing is a statement of the revenue of Canada, 



according to returns received at the Finance 

 Department, Ottawa, for the fiscal year ending 

 June 30, 1893 : 



Increase for 1892-'93, $1,281,228. 



The expenditure for the fiscal year 1892-'93 ap- 

 pears from the statement to have been $30,652,- 

 653, or $614,586 less than during the fiscal year 

 1891-'92, so that, with the $1,281,228 increase in 

 revenue, the Dominion is financially richer by 

 $1,895,796 than at the close of the preceding 

 year. 



The net debt of the Dominion on June 1, 

 1893, amounted to $237,443.000 or about $48 for 

 each man, woman, and child in the country. 

 This, of course, does not include provincial in- 

 debtedness, which for some of the provinces is 

 quite large. Most of the national debt of Can- 

 ada was contracted for constructing railways 

 and canals, for opening up the country for set- 

 tlement, for public buildings and public works, 

 compensating the Hudson Bay Company for re- 

 linquishing its claim to territory to the 'Domin- 

 ion, etc., and that expenditure is now repre- 

 sented by assets worth vastly more than the 

 original sums spent in their acquirement. For 

 railways and canals alone the Dominion Govern- 

 ment will have expended by June 30, 1894, about 

 $158,000,000. 



Government Railways and Canals. The 

 Intercolonial, a Government railway, has been 

 an almost yearly source of expenditure to Cana- 

 da; but during the past year important changes 

 were made in the management and working of 

 the railway by the Minister of Railways and 

 Canals, Hon. John Haggart, with the gratifying 

 result that the frequent deficits of preceding 

 years were changed into a profit. The figures 

 for the past two fiscal years are as follow : 



For the seventeen years that the Interorlonial 

 has been in operation it has showed profits dur- 

 ing five, the aggregate being $47,858 ; while for 

 the remaining twelve years the excess of work- 

 ing expenses over revenue was $4,614,485. The 

 Prince Edward Island Railway, also belonging 

 to the Government, shows as well a very con- 

 siderable reduction in working expenses for the 

 past year. 



Last year the revenue derived from the Do- 

 minion canals, exclusive of hydraulic rents, was 

 $358,711, and for the year preceding it was 

 $350,351. Last year 261,954 tons of grain 

 passed from the upper lakes to Montreal, against 

 295,509 tons in the year before. The falling off 

 in the amount of grain passing east by way of 

 the canals was doubtless owing to the fact that 



