PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. 



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other branches of our public service. Such being 

 the case, a measure will be laid before you having 

 for its object the supplementing of our revenue by a 

 system of taxation so framed as to bear in an equi- 

 table manner upon the whole community. 



The important acts of the session were the 

 following: 



To amend the law relating to the registration of 

 deeds and instruments relating to the titles of lands in 

 the province. 



To amend the law with regard to the fees to be 

 charged by the prothonotary of the Supreme Court. 



To impose certain taxes" on certain incorporated 

 companies and associations. 



To provide for payment of succession duties in cer- 

 tain cases. 



For appointment of stipendiary magistrates for the 

 different counties of Prince Edward Island. 



To impose an income tax. 



To impose a direct tax on certain classes of traders. 



To enable the Government of Prince Edward Island 

 to receive certain loans. 



To exempt hospitals from taxation. 



The committee of the House appointed to ex- 

 amine and report on the public accounts of the 

 preceding fiscal year, closing Dec. 31, 1893, sub- 

 mitted a report of which the following is a sum- 

 mary : The receipts for the year amounted to 

 $217,473, which includes the Dominion subsidy 

 to the province of $183,232.46, a sum only less 

 by $34,240.54 than the whole revenue of the 

 province for the year. The expenditure during 

 the year was $337,415.36, comprising an ordi- 

 nary expenditure of $294,200.71, and an expendi- 

 ture on capital account of $43,214.65. This, it 

 appears, woulS leave a deficit of $119,942.36, a 

 sum more than quadruple the whole revenue of 

 the province for the year, excluding the Do- 

 minion subsidy. The principal items of ex- 

 penditure during the year above mentioned 

 were for the Public Works Department f 148,- 

 359.77, and for education $117,157. 



The session of the Legislature closed on May 

 9, 1894, with a formal address by the Lieuten- 

 ant-Governor. 



Fisheries. The following is a comparative 

 statement of the production in each branch of 

 the fisheries of the province for 1893 : 



Although full returns of the fisheries are sel- 

 dom complete even at the end of the year, suf- 

 ficient information has been received to warrant 

 the statement that the catch for 1894 was larger 

 than for the year before, and would closely ap- 

 proximate to the production of 1892. 



Agriculture. The production of the prin- 

 cipal crops of the province for 1894 has been 

 estimated as follows : Barley, 150,880 bushels ; 

 oats, 3.238,552 bushels ; potatoes, 7,100,308 bush- 

 els : hay, 140,959 tons. 



Within the past few years the manufacture of 

 cheese has claimed the attention of the farmers 

 of the province as never before, and with very 

 gratifying results. In addition to the profitable 

 returns from the industry, an impetus has been 

 given to the raising of improved stock. 



PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION, THE 

 AMERICAN. A secret organization pledged 

 to the support of the common schools as they 

 are, and directly opposed to the election of Ro- 

 man Catholics to office. In the words of one of 

 its leaders, "It is founded on hostility to the 

 idea that one can owe his allegiance first to the 

 Church, and afterward to the states." On May 

 5, 1894, the Supreme Council of the association 

 published this declaration of principles : 



The American Protective Association is not a po- 

 litical party and does not control the political affilia- 

 tion of its members, but it teaches them to be in- 

 tensely active in the discharge of their political du- 

 ties, in or out of party lines ; it holds that subjection 

 to and support of any ecclesiastical power not created 

 and controlled by_ American citizens is irreconcilable 

 with American citizenship ; it upholds the Constitu- 

 tion of the United States of America, and no portion 

 of it more than its guarantee of religious liberty, but 

 it holds this religious liberty to be guaranteed to the 

 individual and not to mean that under its protection 

 any un-American ecclesiastical power can claim abso- 

 lute control over the education of children growing 

 up under the Stars and Stripes. We consider the non- 

 sectarian free public school the bulwark of American 

 institutions, the best place for -the education of Amer- 

 ican children. We condemn the support out of the 

 public Treasury of any sectarian school. We demand 

 that no real or personal property be exempt from taxa- 

 tion the title to which is not Vested in the national 

 or State governments. We protest against the en- 

 listment in the United States army, or navy, or in the 

 militia of any State, of any person not an 'actual citi- 

 zen of the United States ; and we seek to prohibit the 

 importation of pauper labor, and to restrict immigra- 

 tion. We demand that no alien shall be naturalized 

 who can not speak the language of the land and who 

 can not prove seven years' consecutive residence in 

 this country from the date of his declaration of inten- 

 tion. We demand that all hospitals, asylums, re- 

 formatories, or other institutions in which people are 

 under restraint, be at all times subject to public in- 

 spection, whether they be maintained by the public 

 or by private corporations or individuals. 



The association was formed in 1891, in Iowa, 

 and it has spread to Illinois, Indiana, Ohio. Wis- 

 consin. Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Kansas, 

 and Nebraska. The total membership is esti- 

 mated at over 1,000,000, the bulk of which is 

 said to be composed of Englishmen, Canadians, 

 Orangemen, Germans, and Scandinavians. In 

 this respect the association is a departure from 

 the Know-Nothing movement of forty years ago. 

 The association is said to be particularly strong 

 in Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis, Minneapolis, 

 Omaha, Cleveland, and Pittsburg. Councils of 

 the organization are now organizing in Buffalo; 



