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upon the Dominion Government, and was the chief cause that 

 moved them to-offer certain concessions to the Manitoba Premier. 



Meanwhile Hon. Mr. Norquay, leader of the Provincial Govern- 

 ment visited the capital, and, on behalf of the Province, urged the 

 claims previously approved by the Legislature. He prepared Mani- 

 toba's case at length, which was printed in pamphlet form and 

 generally circulated. He set up a claim to the unappropriated 

 public lands, the school lands, urged the extension of the boundaries 

 of the Province to Hudson's Bay, and asked for a readjustment of 

 the financial relations of the Province with the Dominion. He was 

 accorded several interviews with Sir John, and with a committee of 

 the Council, and finally the following terms were agreed to :— 



" 1st. The Dominion Government agree to transfer to the Local Gov- 

 ernment all swamp lands in the Province free, to inure wholly to the 

 benefit of the Province. 



" 2nd. They agree to set aside 150,000 acres of fair average land to be 

 granted as an endowment to a university of Manitoba. 



" 3rd. They agree, in regard to the capital account, to compute that the 

 per capita allowance be made on a population of 150,000 instead of on a 

 population of 17,000 as was originally adopted. That this capital sum 

 shall be charged with such advances as have already been made from the 

 former capital account and with such expenditures as the Dominion Gov- 

 ernment has made within the Province of a purely local character, and 

 that an advance of $150,000 be made to them to meet the cost of con- 

 struction of a lunatic asylum and other exceptional works. 



"4th. They agree that, reckoning from the 1st September, 1881, the 

 Manitoba census shall be taken quinquennially, and that midway between 

 these takings approximate estimates shall be made, so that the estimate of 

 population upon which the allowance of eighty cents per head is based may 

 be revised four times in each decade and in each instance adjusted until 

 the population reach 400,000, the first of such estimates to be made on 1st 

 September next, when, if the population be found to exceed 150,000, due 

 credit will be given. 



" 5th. The demand for extension of boundaries is not entertained. 



" 6th. The Dominion Government agree to change the grant of 12,800 

 acres of land in aid of the Hudson's Bay Company into a free gift. 



" 7th. These concessions are subject to the approval of Parliament and 

 upon the condition that they will be accepted by the Legislature of Mani- 

 toba in full of all claims. 



