MILITARY AND CIVIL, 7I 
     
    
   
   
    
     The troops of the garrison were relieved by the arrival of a 
     
     detachment of the Rifle Brigade, under Captain Sullivan. 
     
    
   
   
    
     May 28th, the King’s birthday, passed off pleasantly. A 
     
     Highland Society was instituted at Charlottetown this year, 
     
     being the origin of the present Caledonia Club. By the 
     
     statistical returns of the census just taken it was shown that 
     
     the population had increased to 32,349. In May, 1834, 
     
     Governor Young left for England; returning in September he 
     
     resumed his office. On his arrival a salute from the Battery was 
     
     fired, and a guard of honor was also in attendance on King’s 
     
     Wharf commanded by Captain Emslie, an oflicer who had 
     
     arrived here during His Excellency’s absence in charge of a 
     
     detachment of the 83rd Regiment. 
     
    
   
   
    
     From an early date, as already shown, a high Court of Justice, 
     
     having judicature throughout the Island, became established at 
     
     Charlottetown, while one Sheriff executed the duties of that 
     
     Office for the whole colony. But the steady increase of the 
     
     population demanded the establishment of a separate branch of 
     
     the said Court in both King’s and Prince Counties. With this 
     
     object in view the Government erected a Court House and Jail 
     
     in the chief town of each, and’ a Sheriff for each County was 
     
     likewise appointed. All preliminaries being completed, on the 
     
     17th March, 1835, the Chief Justice, Officers of the Crown, 
     
     Members of the Bar and Sheriff of the County assembled in 
     
     the Court Room at Georgetown, where, on the Queen’s 
     
     Proclamation being read, the Hilary Term of the Supreme 
     
     Court of King’s County was declared legally opened for the 
     
     distribution of right and justice. ‘ 
     
    
   
   
    
     On the 2nd June following, the Chief Justice and other 
     
     officials met at St. Eleanors, and the Supreme Court of Prince 
     
     County became legalized. Thus were separate courts and 
     
     prisons established, and jurors from these dates were sum- 
     
     moned to attend the sitting of their own local courts only. 
     
     These courts set for the trial of civil and criminal suits twice a 
     
     year, as in Charlottetown, being presided over by the Chief 
     
     Justicersolely, until 1847, when the first Assistant Judge was 
     
     appointed. 
     
    
   
   
    
     , The other Law Courts of the Province consisted of : Court of 
     
     Chancery, of which the Governor is ex ’ryficz'o Chancellor, and 
     
     the'judicial powers of which are exercised by a Master of the