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which expended for the support oins Majesty’s Go- vernment, the munificent sum of £161 25. 11d.

1786 comes in with more mercy than some ofits predecessors. Cold water is provided for the inha- bitants more abundantly in Charlottetown; streets are repaired; insolvent debtors relieved; defects in pleas, processes, and records amended; the years 1780 and 1781 attempted to be patched up, but three years afterwards disallowed by His Majesty; reformation in regard to arrests; the “better advance- ment ofjustice;” quieting the minds and establishing the privdeges of subjects professing the Popish reli- gion; lessening the expense of selling mortgages; the prevention of what is frivolous and vexatious; the appointment of sherifi's; and finally the presenta- tion to the economists of His Majesty’s Government, oftwice as much money as the preceding year, viz:

r£365 1.55. 10d.

The first session of the fifth General Assembly convened in this Island, opened under the Fanning Lieut. Governorship, 1788. It seems that at this time the prosperity of the Island was associated a good deal with the milling interests, for there seems to ban: been a necessity for the Legislature to regu- late the business of grist millers, and there ap- pears to have been a desire to authenticate copies of records. Persons were suspected of making vexa- tious and frivolous arrests; loyalists and disbanded troops were suspected of having claims upon the Government; dissenting Protestant subjects were suspected of having uneasy minds; proprietors of townships were suspected ofnot contributing anything towards the improvement ofthe Island; persons were suspected of maliciously killing or wounding cattle; and the bar was in all simplicity, suspected of put- ting clients to unnecessary expense and delay; mer— chants were suspected of wanting to swear to their own accounts; dowagers were suspected of having an eye on their dowers; the Royalties were suspec- ted of wanting Pounds; the suburbs of Charlottetown