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ate a certain piece ofland as a site for a public mar- ket house; offenders escaping from other British Colonies may be apprehended in this; an Act is passed to give effect to the report of the Com- missioners to be appointed on the Land Question; Mrs. Gibson is naturalised; the minister and trustees of St. Columba’s Church, Blair—in-Athol, SLPeter’s Road, is incorporated, also, sundry persons by the name of “The Cascumpec Marine Railway Com< pany;” the Cascumpec Temperance Hall Company is incorporated; also the Crapaud Dredging Machine Company; amarried woman deserted by her husband ‘ or compelled to support herself, and acquiring pro— perty,it vests in her,and is at her disposal, and is not subject tothe debts, interference or control of her husband; the minister and trustees of St. Andrew’s Church, Callandar, Little Sands, are incorporated; the management of the Presbyterian burial ground at Georgetown is vested in the minister and trustees ofthe Presbyterian Church; the offices of Clerk of the Executive and Legislative Councils are separa- ted; the Sheriff Act is amended; the Governor in Council is authorised to open a cash account with V the Bank of'l’rince Edward Island, and the statute labor and highways Act is improved.

In closing this account ofthe various topics whi :h ‘ have come under the consideration ofthe Legislature . ofthis Island, it will be well to revert for a moment to what we have before referred to in the year 1785, when the appropriation Act of the 25th year of George III. was the granting “the sum of one hun- dred and sixty-one pounds two shillings and eleven pence, for the support of His Majesty’s government!” Now if we examine the Appropriation Act for 1860 we shall perceive at a glance the great progress Prince Edward Island has made since that time. We will run over the items contained in the Appro- priation Act of 1860, and compare them with the gross expenditure ofthe £161 25. 11d. of1785: