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The governor, in opening the session of 1852, stated that he had much pleasure in visiting many parts of the island; but that he observed with regret the educational deficiency which still existed, and which the government would en- deavor to assist in supplying, by introducing a measure which, he hoped, would receive the approval of the house. An act for the encouragement of education, and to raise funds for that purpose by imposing an additional assessment on land, was accordingly passed, which formed the basis of the present educational system.

In April, 1853, the Honorable Charles Young and Cap- tain S\\'abey——the former attorney general, and the‘latter registrar of deeds and chairman of the Board of Education resigned their seats as members of the executive council.

Mr. Joseph Hensley was appointed to the office of attorney general, and Mr. John Longworth to that of solicitor gen- eral,.in place of Mr. Hensley. Mr. Young’s resignation was mainly owing to the approval, by amiajority of his colleagues in the government, of an act to regulate the salaries of the attorney general and solicitor general, and clerk of the Crown and prothonotary, for their services, to which he and other members of the government had serious objections, which they embodied in a protest on the passing . of the bill.

The temperance organizations in the island were particu- larly active at the period at which we have arrived. A meeting was held in Charlottetown, for the purpose of discussing the propriety and practicability of abolishing by law the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors. There would be consistency in prohibiting the manufacture and importation of intoxi ~ating liquors, as well as the sale of them. But the Maine law, which permits the importa- tion of' liquor into the state, whilst it prohibits its sale, is a