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Reform was applied to the Supreme Court, jails, rison discipline, streets and squares, and persons uilty of disorderly riding.

Wills and letters of administration next pass under otice, followed by the subjects of highways and evenues. Mutiny and desertion were to be punished, nd subordination better paid.

In 1839 the subjects were juries and fisheries, :harves, meters and bounties; accidents, sheep, ogs and hogs; revenue, Treasury Warrants, and trong drink; leasehold interests and nautical sur- eys; more jail law, and some shutting up of old ' oads; pounds for cattle, and pounds for the service fthe year.

1840 opens with the statute labor Act, improve- ent of Georgetown, tax on dogs, and a prohibition :on oysters. Fisheries and ferries followed; appren- ices bound, and goats tied up; logs and scantling ; ere not allowed to have their own way upon the :ivers; hawkers and pedlars curtailed oftheir liberty; ‘ essels, boats, &c., seized and sold; felons and mis- emeanists from Newfoundland objected to, and ? ommon assaults, small debt clerks, and coroners, siscussed. Intercourse with Nova Scotia and New 'runswick facilitated; erection of an insane asylum t: uthorised; merchants, seamen, married women, and : ontroverted elections considered, and the Colonial ecretary’s salary arranged.

. Infectious distempers, fish barrels, statistical in- ormation, and education, were the primary subjects ufthe year 1841. Coroners in King’s and Prince 7‘ ounties were appointed, burial grounds established uutside Georgetown, and ton timber, fisheries, and offenders ended the parliamentary doings.