1% HISTORY OF PRINCE ED\VARD ISLAND.

of the government and legislature: that is to say, thirty thousand dollars, and an annual grant equal to eighty cents per head of its population, as shown by the census returns of 1871,——namely, ninety—four thousand and twenty-one,—both 'by half-yearly payments in advance,—such grant of' eighty cents per head to be augmented in proportion to such in- crease of population of the island as might be shown by each decennial census, until the population amounted to four hun- dred thousand, at which rate such grant should thereafter remain,—~it being understood that the next census should be taken in the year 1881. The Dominion likewise assumed all the charges for the following services: the salary of the lieutenant-governor, the salaries of the judges of the superior courts and of the district or county courts, the charges in respect to the department of customs, the postal department, the protection of the fisheries, the provision for the militia, the lighthouses, shipwrecked crews, quarantine, and marine hospitals, the geological survey, and the penitentiary. The Dominion government also assumed the railway, which was then under contract. The main resolutions, on the motion of 111. l. C, Pope, seconded by Mr. David Laird, were carried by twenty-seven votes to two. The house of assembly then unanimously agreed to an address to Her Majesty the Queen, praying that Her Majesty would be graciously pleased to unite Prince Edward Island with the Dominion of Canada on the terms and conditions contained in the .said address. The legislative action necessary to consum- mate the union of Prince Edward Island with the Dominion of Canada being thus completed, its political destiny was united to that of the already eonfederated provinces on the first of July, 1873.

It may seem strange, to one unacquainted with the facts, that so great a change in public sentiment in regard to union

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