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ONTAKIo. 



following railway resolut ir 





incial Treasurer and passed : 

 That there be grant*! out of the consolidated 

 revenue fund. f*>r the construct! n <>f portions of 

 railways and other work* herviimft. r mentioned, 

 0M HUM foll..w;Mi:. th.,: it It ] : To fchl On- 

 tario and Rainv River Railway, for a d: 

 exceeding 70 mfc, aOMfa ml My ol |8,000i mile, 



. the Montreal nl Ottawa Railway, $34.<NM. ; 

 and that the porti< : unearned sutwidv ..f 



*|<MM ', was granted I- the Vau.ln-uil and 



a Railway Company in 1892, ami which was, 

 in the year 18M, transferred t<> tin- Central ('nn- 



tie Railway r..mpan\, which unearned |>..rti<>ii 

 amoi. .uisferred to the Montreal 



and 1 i l>uny to assist in th 



lion of 50 miles of the said rail*;, 

 the Manit.'uliM and Nrth Shore Railway, a dis- 

 tancc not r\<-r<>ding 13 miles additional, a cash sub- 

 sidyof ta,OOOamUe.$88 To th. I 



tic Railway tanco 



xceeding 8*202 miles, a cash subsidy of 

 $2,000 a mile, (5) T.. th. Ottawa and Parry 



1 Railway, for a distance not exceeding 10 

 mi es. a cash subsidy of $2,000 a mile. 



The bill relating the Court of Apical r. Consti- 

 tuted the court with live judges, instead of four as 



The bill resp .- 1 limits the 



number to be appointed to twenty during any four 

 yean. 



The act relating to arbitration was entirely re- 

 cast, and now includes many of the provisions of 

 the imperial act 



The wills act provides that marriage shall not 

 revoke a will, except under special circumstances 

 mentioned in the bill: ami the married women's 

 property act pn-vido that the contract of a mar- 

 riea woman shall bind her, whether she has sepa- 

 rate property or n<-t. 



The clause requiring both parties to a proposed 

 marriage to attend before the issuer of marriage 

 licenses, on obtaining a license, was repealed, and 

 the old law was restored. Either may now obtain a 

 marriage li< 



Th. 1 for the purpose of con- 



ducing examinations prescribed by the Education 

 Department and the annual examination fr matri- 

 culation at the University of Toronto will hereafter 

 be composed of twelve persons. The senate of the 

 university will nominate six, and the Lieutenant 

 Governor in council the other 



et cars and electric-railway cars, except when- 

 it shall be necessary for keeping the track clear of 

 snow or ice. or for other a -sity or charity. 



are not to run on Sundays; but this is not to affect 

 any right of the Toronto Street Railway or any 

 company which has heretofore run cars on 

 Sunday, or which is entitled to run cars upon Sun- 

 day by its charter or by any special act 



The license bill which "Mr. llarcourt had in 

 charge was one of the controversial subjects of the 

 session, attracting more attention oui-i-i.- than per- 

 haps any other measure that the Assembly had to 

 consider. The measure, after amendment, went 

 through the boose. Meanwhile protests poured in 

 from nearly all the temperance societies of the 

 province, and the Premier himself had met a very 

 hostile reception in explaining its provisions to a 

 large delegation on March 11. The objections were 

 to the number of licenses issued, the omission to 

 deal with the selling of liquor in clubs, the hours 

 of closing, and the arrangement for canceling ir- 



Ki nance*. The public accounts for 1896 were 

 submitted by the Treasurer to the legislature on 

 Feb. 16, as follow : The receipts for the twelve 



month* ending I>ec. -I. 1 *!'.. including a balance 

 ol ^7,58a89. amount. -dto^:{.-jrj.c,( >;.:)!. Added to 

 this amount are $1.'.' nut excess 



of distributions over pun iia>.-. and $I,!MTJ..~iK5 the 

 amiiunt withdrawn from special deposits, making 

 the total income ..f the treasury $.V <>,, 



the..: .iccinint are ejtpeudil 



ig $8,708UJ7!. T::. and special deposits ai noii 

 to $ 1 .fti.Y' - ,ance of $204,820.53. 



expenditure under tr.-a nits aggregated 



$30,883.51). made up as fouOl 



. icatlon. '> public institution-. 



public buildings. $1.74f>.:><>. In 

 tioli t.i this there w.-i-c unaiithori/cd expend 

 amounting to N . ousolidatcd revenue 



fund amounte.l t,. ^.jrJ.M)J..'il. and thi 

 OOODl 'I \d. led to the Don, into,, 



Ivof $1,116,872.80 was a special grant ..: 



The inler.-l on capital held and debt-,: 

 the Domini. .n In Ontario wa* I t he 



interest on in\ I. The ( 



Land- Department lirmi.u'ht in > D, t he 



largest item of r.-v.-nue h.-ini; 5?^ 



w 1- and forests: 1 i.-i-n-e- bnniu'lii in *'J^).l T'^.TN: 



law itamps, $68,566.82; Ekiucat ion Department $69,- 

 522.54; succession duties. $ K; :, 

 enue, $109,189.4:5; public institution-. s|jr,.;. 

 The sale of annuities brought in %\~, '. 

 The acting 1). 



Follow: Civil p.venimeni. 



.tliiui, $127,100; adininistratiiin of j.. 



::H: ediicaiioi. public instiiut ion-' 



inaintenai. , mi-rat ion. .<!'. 



culture, $195,022 ; hospital- and charities, $185 

 maintenance and repairs of Government and de- 

 partmental buildings. $77.'Js.'; public buil 

 $138,177; public works, $4 .'ion roads, 



$87,^4'i; cnarges on crown lands, s; iun.1 



account, $36,504; statute consolidation, si- 

 miscellaneous expenditure, $u;.J".n : nnfoi 

 and unprovided, $50,000; total, $8,516.068. 



Mining. Since the last meeiin^ of the Legis- 

 lature the mineral n-i. r ins of northwest. -rn <>. 

 had attracted increased attention. The < ppo-ii j, ,n 

 jiros had been di-posed to be crit ical with r. 

 to the mining law and the want of a mining policy 

 ..n the part of the Government. Finalh 

 ernment's policy was submitted to the Leiri.-lature 

 in the form of an agreement with the Kn^ledue 

 syndicate, the mining bill, a grant for con-tructing 

 wagon roads in the minim: country, and subven- 

 tions to a railway which it i* claimed will .,; 

 up from east to west. Important change- 

 made in the mining laws a few years ago. but the 

 new di-c i the changed situation de- 



manded new provi-ii.iis. The principle ..f impox- 

 ing a royalty on mining wa^ then strongly criti- 

 It was said again and again that this was 

 the cause of the stagnation in mineral production. 

 In the new mining act the d. -ire to see a healthy 

 development of mining did not lead to a neglect of 

 the public int.-:- i- provided that th> ' 



eminent may withdraw any lands from sale or lease 

 which are rejKirted to be particularly rich ii. 



,'inual report of the Ontario I'.ureau ..f Mines 

 for l^W. gave the following table of production dur- 

 ing the vear: Gold, $121,848; nickel. $357,000: 

 '.<iO; iron, $353,788; building stone, f 

 000; petroleum. $1,955,295; til. and brick, $721,000; 

 natural gas, $276,710. Gold discoveries and devel- 

 opme: H-d through 1MMJ. and gr.-atly in- 



creased in 1897. English money was largely in- 

 vested in the Rat Poi-ta-e di-trict and in the new 

 gold region- of Michipicotcn. near Sault Ste. .Marie. 

 A lariri- tract of land was leased by the Government 

 Itfa African Company, and caused much 

 discussion in the press and the Legislature. New 



