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     nd barristers, attorneys, and solicitors got their ad- 
     
     mission regulated. 
     
    
   
   
    
     In 1818, building gaols and court houses, prevent- 
     
     ing Acts running backwards and taking efl'ect; limit- 
     
     ing terms of Supreme Court; examining Witnesses 
     
     out ofthe Island; regulating juries,jurors, elections, 
     
     lease-holdings, and merchant seamen, preceded the 
     
     Act of barring estates tail. 
     
    
   
   
    
     In 1820, incumbrancers ofreal estate initiated His 
     
     Majesty George the Fourth’s supervision of_Island 
     
     afi'airs by opposing “claims of dower,” but as His 
     
     Majesty could have no sympathy with any oppressors 
     
     ,of the fair sex, he very properly disallowed it on the 
     
     ',ninth ofJune, [821. 
     
    
   
   
    
     In 1825, Lieut. Governor Ready commenced his 
     
     reign by rewarding the bear hunters and killers of 
     
     wild cats, and by way of'balance, moved his thoughts 
     
     from his organ ofdestructiveness to that ofthe (self?) 
     
     preservation of oysters; but bears, wild cats and 
     
     oysters were not the only subjects oins Excellency’s 
     
     thoughts. He appointed hog reeves,and encouraged 
     
     education . He revived witnesses and destroyed dogs. 
     
     He shut up boar pigs, and put his signet on travelling 
     
     swine. He considered that canoes ought not to be 
     
     ‘ taken away without the consent of the owners; and 
     
     that piloting ought to be systematized. He gave en- 
     
     couragement to the fisheries; and discouragement to 
     
     trespassers. He limited the jurisdiction of justices 
     
     ot‘the peace, and revived the idea that sheep were a 
     
     nuisance when they were at liberty to upset buckets 
     
     in a back porch in Charlottetown. He provided a 
     
     remedy for injuries arising from playing with fire, 
     
     and a remedy ot'nnother kind, by the issue ofTrea- 
     
     sury notes. To diminish the use of rum and brandy 
     
     there was a duty put on tea; and the solace of man- 
     
     kind, tobacco, became a contributor to the revenue. 
     
     Marriages, baptisms, and polygamy, which was made 
     
     felony, stirred his mind, but he did not succeed in 
     
     convincing his master, George the Fourth, that poly- 
     
     . gamy was felzony. However, rum and pumps are 
     
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