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     CHAPTER V. 
     
    
   
   
    
     LEGISLATIVE TOPICS. 
     
     1842 To 1850. 
     
    
   
   
    
     IN 1842 Sir Henry Vere Huntley was Lieut. Go- 
     
     vernor. We have first to notice the incorporation of 
     
     the Prince Edward Island Steam Navigation Com- 
     
     pany. Next the providing medical attendance for 
     
     sick emigrants. Treasury Warrants paid OH to the 
     
     amount of four thousand pounds. The letting of 
     
     stalls in the Charlottetown market house. The in- 
     
     sane asylum and other charities provided for. The 
     
     fire engine company and apprentices again talked 
     
     about. The circulation of base coppers inefl'ectually 
     
     prohibited. The admission of barristers amended. 
     
     Education again encouraged, election laws ex- 
     
     plained, and commissioners selected to superintend 
     
     the erection ofa Colonial Building in Charlottetown. 
     
    
   
   
    
     In 1843 the highways and statuto labor Acts are 
     
     consolidated. Persons compelled to serve as con- 
     
     stables. Another chaptcr on strong drink indited, 
     
     followed by the diluting subject of pumps and wells, 
     
     the revenue is again increased, the marriage law 
     
     amended, and the inspection of pickled fish altered; 
     
     limits and rules of jails continued. Hogs at large 
     
     discontinued, and oysters kept at home. lllicit trade 
     
     prevented.(?) At Georgetown the detention law 
     
     relates to swine, and geese, and horses, none of which 
     
     are now permitted to go at large in that place. 
     
     Questions of distress for rent, and replevin, landlord 
     
     and wilful tenant are provided with a legal wedge. 
     
     The academy in Charlottetown is again noted for 
     
     improvement. Married women made conveyancers 
     
     of their own freehold property. Persons making 
     
     wills, and intestates taken into consideration, and the 
     
     Common of Georgetown protected. 
     
    
   
   
    
     In 1844 some errors in the highways and small 
     
     debts Act are corrected,and the subject ofsmall debts