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     LAND COMMISSION! 
     
     ON. MR. HOWE’S EXPOSITION OF THE AWARD. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     (From the Examiner, August 26, 1861.) 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     CnARLoTrnTOWN, TUESDAY, Aug. 20, 1861. 
     
    
   
   
    
     MR. HOWE said that his visit to the Island, at the pre- 
     
     ent time, was unconnected with the Land Question. He 
     
     ad come solely with a view to render the Steamboat service 
     
     n theiGulf more perfect and useful to both Provinces. On 
     
     'is arrival here, however, he had‘seen in one of the papers 
     
    

    
     hat appeared to be a garbled and inaccurate report of the 
     
     ' ward. and had thought it due to his brother Commission- 
     
     rs and to the people of the Colony to correct those errors, 
     
     hich he had done in a letter, over his own signature, 
     
    

    
     hich they would find in the Examiner. He had yesterday 
     
     Keceived a note from Benjamin Davies, Esq., Chairman of a 
     
     ommittee of Delegates, enclosing a copy of a letter which 
     
     but gentleman had addressed on the 16th of August to the 
     
     on. John H. Gray, requesting to be favored with an out- 
     
     ine of the Commissioners‘ Report. He thought it his duty 
     
     nder all the circumstances. and to satisfy the very natural 
     
     nxiety of the people, to intimate to Mr.»Davies that if the 
     
     elegates would call upon him he would be happy to give 
     
     hem any information in his power. This meeting had 
     
     rown out of those-communications. He saw no necessity 
     
     or mystery in the matter; on thecontrary, the sooner the 
     
     ncrsl principles embodied in the Report of the Royal 
     
     ommissioners were universally known in the Island the 
     
     ooner ~a.ll parties would prepare for the legislation 
     
     hich would be required to give effect to it. The Be- 
     
     ort itself had been sent to His Grace the Duke of New- 
     
     astle to be laid at the foot of the Throne. The Commission- 
     
     rs would have been glad to have sent forward a copy for 
     
     ie information of the people whose interests were so deep- 
     
    

    
     involved, but in our monarchical country there were 
     
     ertain forms. which, however they might sometimes seem 
     
     retard public business. it was graceful and prudent to 
     
     beerve. In accordance with official etiquette, therefore, it 
     
     ad been deemed proper that the Report should be trans- 
     
     itted to the Lieutenant Governor through the Secretary 
     
     ‘f State. He had no doubt that it would be printed in 
     
     ngland and sent to the Island without any unnecessary 
     
     ,elay. He had no copy with him, and of course could not 
     
    
   
   
    
     retend to give them from memory more than an outline of 
     
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