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third election for the Assembly was held in 1779, when the following members were returned :

John Ramsay, John Webster, John Budd, William Lawson, James Campbell, James Richardson, David Higgins, John Clark,

Hugh Montgomery, Benjamin Chappell, Walter Berry, Dugald Stewart, John Lord, William Craig, James Curtis, Cornelius Higgins, Thomas Mellish, William Warren, David Lawson, Thomas Hyde, sr., Moses Delesderniers, Alexander Davidson.

This House held a number of sessions, and was not dis- solved until 1785. The council referred to above possessed both executive and legislative powers, and it so continued until 1839, when a separation took place. From that year to 1893 there were two- councils—~a legislative and an executive.

In 1775 two American schooners touched at Charlottetown, plundered the town, and carried oflr to the American head- quarters the acting Governor, Hon. Mr. Callbeck, and other prominent citizens. But Washington promptly dismissed the commanders, returned the prisoners, with expressions of regret for their privations, and restored the stolen property. During the American Revolution (1774-1776) the Island remained loyal to Great Britain, and was resorted to by ships of war, and converted into a military station.

Efforts at Colonization.*G1ancing back one hundred years (1663) we find Isle St.Jean, with other islands, granted by the Company of New France to Sieur Francois Do-ublet, a mariner of Honfleur, France, who with others, established fishing stations; but it was not until the Peace of Utrecht, that the Island began to attract settlers, many of whom were Acadians from the ceded territory. The country, how-