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ney-General's department. $79,415; for the admin- 

 istration of justice in connection with the Attorney- 

 General':* department, $23,950 ; cost of swamp lands 

 commission in connection with Provincial Lauds De- 

 partment, $25,000 ; for interest on railroad bonds in 

 connection with Railway Commissioner's department, 

 $98,550 ; for asylums for the insane, deaf and dumb 

 institutes, and home for incurables, $60,790 ; for aid 

 to municipalities, etc., $33,000 ; and to defray the ex- 

 penses or legislation, public institutions, salaries ol 

 officers of Government, etc., for January and February, 

 1895, $80,000. 



The excessive charges made by the Canadian 

 Pacific Railway for conveyance of freight was 

 made the subject of debate* It was argued that 

 the contract entered into between the Federal 

 Government and the Canadian Pacific Railway 

 Company placed the latter in a position to charge 

 excessive freight rates, and that the protective 

 tariff of the Government, increasing duties, en- 

 hancing prices, and favoring combines, had the 

 effect of placing excessive burdens upon settlers 

 and rendering agricultural pursuits unprofitable. 

 The debate closed with the adoption of a resolu- 

 tion to the effect that railway rates generally, 

 and local rates especially, should be materially 

 reduced, and also that it was desirable that arti- 

 cles necessary to the prosecution of agriculture 

 be placed upon the free list, and on all other 

 articles a tariff be imposed for revenue only. 



A motion that the costly establishment at- 

 tached to the office of Lieutenant- Governor be 

 done away with, and that the office be held con- 

 jointly with some other in the Government, was 

 negatived. The petition of Mrs. B. Playfair 

 and 2,000 others, praying that the right of citi- 

 zenship be not abridged or denied on account 

 of sex, and that the right of the franchise be 

 granted to the women of tne province on an 

 equality with men, was laid on the table. 



Finances. The receipts of the Government 

 for the fiscal year ending Dec. 31, 1893, amounted 

 to $931,894.28. The principal item is the Do- 

 minion subsidy to the province of $437,600.54, 

 which comprises : Yearly allowance of 80 cents a 

 head on population of 152,506. $122.004.80; year- 

 ly allowance for Government in lieu of lands, 

 $100,000; yearly allowance for Government, 

 $50,000 ; interest on capital account, $165,- 

 595.74. The receipts from fines amounted to 

 $4,110.82; county court fees, $11,196.40; law 

 stamps, $13,235.50 ; marriage licenses, $1.183.50 ; 

 liquor licenses, $25,934.92 ; interest, $17,038.33 ; 

 rent of building at World's Fair, Chicago, $20,- 

 254. 



The total expenditure for the year ending 

 Dec. 31, 1893, was $1,128,876.19. The impor- 

 tant items of expenditure for the year were : 

 For legislation, $38,225.31; Treasury Department, 

 $106,568; Education Department, $125,037.07; 

 Department of Agriculture and Immigration, 

 $168.567; Attorney-General's department, $123,- 

 430.25 ; Railway Commissioner's department, 

 $133,767 ; Public Works, $231,509.19. 



Education. The school population of the 

 province is 34,417; the number of pupils regis- 

 tered for 1893 was 28,706; number of teachers 

 male, 435 ; female 562 ; number of school dis- 

 tricts organized, 876 ; schools in operation, 718. 

 The highest salary paid during the year was 

 $1.800 ; average salary for the province, $479.36 ; 

 average salary in the cities and towns, $642.68 ; 



average in rural schools, $456.24 : and the total 

 amount paid to teachers was $317,119. 



By an act of the Legislature, passed in 1890, 

 sepa'rate schools were abolished within the prov- 

 ince. Previous to this the schools were Protes- 

 tant and Roman Catholic; now they are non- 

 sectarian, and religious exercises are to be at 

 the option of the school trustees, subject to the 

 regulations of the advisory board. This act has 

 given great dissatisfaction to the Roman Catho- 

 lics throughout the province and in other parts 

 of Canada, and efforts have been made to dis- 

 allow the measure, but so far without success 

 At the last session of the Dominion Parliament 

 a petition to annul the act was presented in be- 

 half of Cardinal Taschereau and the Roman 

 Catholic archbishops, bishops, and priests of 

 Canada. Sir John Thompson, the Premier, in 

 reply to the petitioners, declared that the Gov- 

 ernment had taken the matter into considera- 

 tion, but could not yet announce a decision. 



Fisheries. All the lakes of Manitoba are 

 shallow, and, although the surface area is large, 

 the extent of fishing waters is small. Regula- 

 tions for enforcing judicious restrictions and a 

 closed season for the protection of fish have 

 been partially adopted on Lakes Winnipeg, 

 Manitoba, and Winnipegosis, and other fishing 

 waters of the province. Last year a fully 

 equipped hatchery was erected at Selkirk, on 

 Red river, and 21,000,000 eggs of whitefish 

 were placed in it. There is no separate Govern- 

 ment report of the products of the fisheries of 

 Manitoba, they being conjoined with those of 

 the Northwest Territories. The following table 

 gives the products for 1893 : 



Crops and other Statistics. The area 

 under wheat in 1894 amounted to 1,010,186 

 acres, and the yield to 17,172,883 bushels. The 

 yield of oats was 11,907,854 bushels; of barley, 

 2,981,716 bushels; peas, 18,434 bushels; flax, 

 366,000 bushels; rye, 59,924 bushels; potato^. 

 2,035,336 bushels : and of other roots, 1,841,942 

 bushels. The aggregate of the sales of butter 

 for the year was 2,516,200 pounds, for which 

 $382,347.66 had been received. The export 

 trade in cattle and hogs for the same period 

 amounted to 11,000 of the former and 8,000 of 

 the latter. 



Immigration. Though the Provincial Gov- 

 ernment at the last session of the Legislature 

 determined to curtail expenses in the matter of 

 encouraging immigration, very liberal induce- 

 ments are still offered to those intending to 

 settle as farmers in the province. In addition 

 to a free grant of land, in certain cases money 

 is advanced to the immigrant farmer to emibi 

 him to purchase farming implements, cattlt 

 horses, seed, grain, etc., to tide him over until 

 he harvests his first crop. The money is 



