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     ’e 'vaults of’the Church of England, in the capital 
     
     {the Island. History would be incomplete without 
     
     he illustrious name he bore. 
     
    
   
   
    
     CHAPTER VI. 
     
    
   
   
    
     LEGISLATIVE TOPICS; 
     
     1851 To 1'860. 
     
    
   
   
    
     'IN 1851 Lieut. GOVernor Bannerman cemmeneed 
     
     ' is legislative career, by setting ’the people to mend 
     
     , heir ways; gave relief to insolvent debtors; com- 
     
     uted the Crown revenues; provided for the civil 
     
     list; shortened the parliamentary language; consti-‘ 
     
     " u’ted Boards of health; amended the militia; levied 
     
     ' ontributions from husbands and natural relatives of 
     
     and for impotent persons; polished up the smuggling 
     
     aws; raised a revenue; encouraged education; im- 
     
     posed a tax on emigrants; transferred the manage- 
     
     ent of the inland posts; regulated the costs of dis- 
     
     resses; permitted stray cattle to be sold; incorpo- 
     
     'a ated the Trustees of Princetown Royalty Church; 
     
     amended statute labor; extended to mills, standard 
     
     of weights and measures act‘; encouraged the cod 
     
     2: nd mackerel fisheriesyprohibited certain games and 
     
     a reworks in CharlottetoWn; authorised a loan for the 
     
     use ofthe Island; provided for common assaults and 
     
     atteries; granted a patent to Abraham Gesner for 
     
     an improved method of manufacturing illuminating 
     
     _as; removedythe Post Office of Charlottetown to 
     
     ‘ he Old Court House; authorised the Colonial Secre- 
     
     ary and Treasurer to appoint deputies; reduced the 
     
     alary ofthe Collector of Impost; restrained bulls; 
     
     rotected Georgetown from accidents by fire, and 
     
     uisances; relieved members ofthe legislature from 
     
     liability by non-acceptance of the office of High 
     
     herifi; appropriated money from land assessment;