100 LEAVES THEY HAVE TOUCHED. 



1820. Eeceived of George Crookshank, Esq., Acting Receiver 

 General, tke snm of Four Hundred and forty-four Pounds eight 

 shillings and tenpence halfpenny, Canada Currency, being my half- 

 year's allowance of Pension from the 1st of July to the 31st of 

 December, 1819, inclusive, at £800 sterling per annum, as late Chief 

 Justice of the Province, granted upon my retirement from the Bench 

 by His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, as signified in Earl 

 Bathurst's letter dated the 18th of June, 1816; pursuant to Lieut.- 

 Governor Sir P. Maitland's warrant No. 22 of this date, having 

 signed five receipts of the same tenor and date. — Thos. Scott. 

 £444 8s. lO^d., Canada Currency; dollars at 5s. each." 



I shoiild have noted further back that between Gov. Simcoe and 

 Gov. Hunter came the Administrator, Peter Russell. He was after- 

 wards Receiver General of the Province. Here is his autograph 

 signature, a fine one, attached in that cajjacity to a receipt, which . 

 informs us what v/as the sum accruing to the public Treasury from 

 Licenses in the Midland District in 1806. " Receiver General's 

 Office, 20th March, 1806. Received from John Cummings, Esq., 

 Inspector for the Midland District, through the hands of Alexander 

 Wood, Esq., Twenty-three pounds twelve shillings and ninepence, 

 Halifax Currency, for account of Duties received on Licenses in that 

 District. — Peter Russell, Receiver General. £23 12s. 9d., Hx. 

 Currency; dollars at 5s." Mr. Paissell died at York in 1808. I 

 copy the pi-inted card of invitation which was sent to his friends on 

 the occasion of his Funeral, the mem. at its close sounding some- 

 what strange to us now. " Sir : The favour of your attendance at 

 the Funeral of the late Mi". Russell is requested on Wednesday next, 

 at 2 o'clock precisely. York, 3rd October, 1808. Divine Service 

 and a Funeral Sermon, by the Reverend Mr. Stuart." 



Of Governor Gore I have several minute manuscript remains. He 

 was twice Governor of Tipper Canada. He departed before the Three 

 Years' War, begun in 1812, and was reappointed when the contest 

 was over. The following is a familiar note to Mi-. Justice PoAvell, 

 3rd May, 1810. He was just on the start for an inspectional tour, 

 probably. " Dear Sir : I hope to get away on Saturday morning ; 

 therefore if you will excuse a short invitation, and take your sujjper 

 with us to-morrow at half-past 5 o'clock, we shall be most happy of your 

 company. — Francis Gore." The italicised supper is, I think, a 

 jocose allusion to the use of the word supper for " Tea," common , 



