98 HISTORICAL SKETCH OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND 
     
    
   
   
    
     residence at Charlottetown, where he became a member of 
     
     His Majesty’s Council under Governor Smith. 
     
    
   
   
    
     On the demise of Colonel Lane, Captain Swabey. an old 
     
     Waterloo officer, succeeded to the local rank of Adjutant 
     
     General; and Major Ansell, an officer on half pay, residing at 
     
     Halifax, N. S., was appointed Town Major of the Garrison. 
     
     The death of Chief Justice Jarvis, also occurred during this 
     
     year; he was succeeded by the Hon. Robert Hodgson, late 
     
     Attorney General, he Mr. Hodgson, being the first native 
     
     born to receive any such dignified position in the colony. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Parliament met this year, 1854, with all the customary 
     
     formalities, salutes were fired, a guard of honor was in atten- 
     
     dance, while the smiling presence of a great many of the fair 
     
     sex graced the Council Chamber. The Governor in his 
     
     address referred in terms of congratulation to the prosperous 
     
     state of the revenue, which during the last three years had 
     
     increased from £22,000 to £35,000. He also referred to the 
     
     debt against the colony, which in January, 1850, amounted to 
     
     £23,000, was now reduced to £3,000. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Sir Alexander Bannerman, having been appointed governor 
     
     of the Bahamas, left for that station on the 10th of May, 
     
     when Major Ansell, Town Major, was sworn in Administrator; 
     
     a guard of honor received him in front of the Colonial Building 
     
     and a salute of 15 guns was fired. The new governor, 
     
     Dominick Daly, Esq., however, arrived on the 12th June, and 
     
     was duly sworn into office with such honors as his rank 
     
    
   
   
    
     demanded. 
     
    
   
   
    
     On the 24th of May, the Queen’s birthday, a review of the 
     
     troops by the Administrator was held on Queen Square, in 
     
     the presence of many spectators; a royal salute and feu-a’e-joz'e 
     
     were fired and three hearty cheers were given for Her Majesty; 
     
     but this day witnessed for the last time in the Island’s 
     
     history any further military display by the troops of Charlotte- 
     
     town’s Garrison. Seventy-six years had elapsed since four 
     
     companies of troops had been landed here in Charlottetown 
     
     for the purpose of establishing a garrison under His Excellency 
     
     the Lieutenant Governor Commander-in-chief. The Garrison 
     
     Staff consisted of Town Major, Barrack Master, Commissariat 
     
     Officer, Surgeon and Doctor. The troops of the garrison were 
     
     annually relieved by fresh detachments being forwarded from