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another within the old Province, and in the added territory north of the 

 fifteen mile limit. 



" The proposal to adjust the eighty cents a head grant on a quinquen- 

 nial census is received with satisfaction, and should the Dominion deem it 

 advisable to increase the maximum number allowed the respective Provinces 

 on which the eighty cents a head is to be paid, the Province of Manitoba 

 insists that her claims shall not be overlooked in the general adjustment. 



" The assurance of the earnest desire of the Dominion Government to 

 extend railway facilities in Manitoba and the North- West is received with 

 satisfaction, and the opinion of this House is, should the Province obtain 

 control of its public lands, the same could be advantageously supplemented 

 by a modification of the terms upon which lands have been granted in aid 

 of the railways referred to, by merely charging those railway companies 

 with the cost of surveys and management of those lands. The difficulties 

 encountered in raising money for the prosecution of these enterprises induce 

 this Legislature to strongly urge upon the Government the modification 

 suggested. 



" With reference to this discussion this House begs to call the attention 

 of the Privy Council to a report of a Select Committee appointed by this 

 Legislature to enquire into the operation of the tariff on agricultural imple- 

 ments, lumber, canned fruits, etc., which is annexed thereto. 



" In reference to the extension of boundaries, this House is of opinion 

 that were the same conceded and a grant of the lands included in the 

 territory so added, handed over to the Province a material benefit would 

 be secured by having a seaport on Hudson's Bay. There being no proba- 

 bility of any Province being formed between Manitoba and Hudson's Bay, 

 this extension would not interfere with the rights or ambition of any other 

 Province, and it having been the channel through which for over two 

 centuries access was obtained to this country, that territory naturally 

 belongs to Manitoba. 



" It is obvious that the propositions made by the Federal Government 

 cannot be accepted as a settlement of the claims urged by the delegation 

 charged with their submission at Ottawa; and while appreciating some of 

 the concessions proposed, this House, with a sense of its responsibility to 

 the people of this country, and having in view the best interests of this 

 Province, deems it its duty to decline the acceptance of the proposition for 

 the reasons already adduced. 



" Therefore be it resolved, That an humble address be passed by this 

 House to His Excellency the Governor-General, respectfully declining to 

 accept the same, and again urging the views of this House, as expressed in 

 the instructions given to the delegates on the occasion of their late mission 



