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     the order of the day, and tea and tobacco are not 
     
     forgotten. About this time some small change " came 
     
     o’er the spirit of his dream,” and notes ofthe value 
     
     often shillings were issued. After regulating appren- 
     
     tiees and establishing an assize of bread, he counted 2 
     
     the population ofthe .Island, gave some legal direc- ‘ 
     
     tions about driving carts on the highways, and au- 
     
     thorised the formation of a fire engine company. 
     
     Cases ofreplevin, and the support oflight-houses, 
     
     and once more the spring water Act is brought upon 
     
     the carpet,in company with her brother, the rum Act, 
     
     while the tobacco and tea Act smoke and steam he- 
     
    
   
   
    
     side them. ' 
     
    
   
   
    
     We are now in the year 1828, and several expiring 
     
     laws have to be set on their feet. Grain and pulse 
     
     ask for proper ofiicers. Education claims encou- 
     
     ragement. Ferries want licensing. The Court of 
     
     Judicature wants to issue commissions for examining 
     
     witnesses out of this Island. Boar pigs and swine 
     
     Without rings, have not attended to former sugges- 
     
     tions, and continue grunting against interference. 
     
     Statute labor is :necessary on the highways; and 
     
     once more rum, tobacco, and tea pass under review 
     
     in high spirits in the absence of their sister, the 
     
     pump Act, whom they don’t like to be mixed up with. 
     
     An impost duty on ALL goods, wares, and merchan- 
     
     dize was attempted, which, one would think, would 
     
     have enabled Governor Ready to relieve the House 
     
     from further attendance and take upon his own 
     
     shoulders the public Treasury; but his Royal master 
     
     withholding his Royal consent, the matter dropped. 
     
     Coincidently with the appointment ofjail limits, the 
     
     streets of Charlottetown are cleansed, and obstruc- 
     
     tions removed, so that, no doubt, those debtors who 
     
     were allowed to take the air, got along with more 
     
     comfort. Tenants in tail were permitted to make 
     
     leases for any term of years, and to be good at law, 
     
     but at the same time, they are restricted to 999 years, 
     
     with liberty of repossession after that. His Majesty, 
     
     who would have liked such a long life, gave his Royal