MILITARY AND CIVIL. I49

Campbell, in his history of the Island, says: “The Island should, on entering the union, be entitled to incur a debt equal to fifty dollars a head of its population, as shown by the census returns of 1871; that is to say, four million seven hundred and one thousand and fifty dollars; that the Island, not having incurred debts equal to the sum just mentioned, should be entitled to receive, by half—yearly payments in advance, from the general government, interest at the rate of five per cent. per annum on the difference, from time to time, between the actual amount ofits indebtedness and the amount of indebtedness authorized; that, as the government of Prince Edward Island held no lands from the Crown, and consequently enjoyed no revenue from that source for the construction and maintenance of pub- lic works, the Dominion government should pay, by half-yearly installments, in advance, to the government of Prince Edward Island, forty-five thousand dollars yearly, less five per cent., upon any sum not exceeding eight hundred thousand dollars, which the Dominion government might advance to the Prince Edward Island government for the purchase of land now held by the large proprietors; that, in consideration of the transfer to the parliament of Canada of the powers of taxation, the fol- lowing sums should be paid yearly by Canada to Prince Edward Island, for the support of the government and legisla- ture; 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 187 t,—namely, ninety-four thousand and twenty- -one,—both by half-yearly payments in advance,— such grant of eighty cents per head to be augmented 1n pro- portion to such increase of population of the Island as might be shown by each decennial census, until the population amounted to four hundred thousand, at which rate such grant should thereafter remain.”

“ The Dominion assumed the appointment, and payment of the salary of the Lieut. Governor, that of the Judges of the Superior and District Courts ; the appointment of the officials and all charges in respect to the customs, excise, postal, rail- way, and provisions for the militia. They also took under their protection, the fisheries, light-houses, shipwrecked crews, quarantine, marine hospitals and geological surveys.”

Such were the auspices under which the Province of Prince Edward Island joined in with the Dominion of Canada, and