the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the said Bishop may take place in that Island so far as conveniently may be, we do think fit that you do give all countenance and encouragement to the exercise of the same, excepting only the collating to benefices, granting licenses for marriages and probate of wills, which we have reserved to you our Governor and to the Commander -in- Chief of our said Island for the time being.60 When Governor Patterson first arrived in 1770 there were only 150 families resident year round in the colony. What is now Charlottetown consisted of a site on which two buildings had been constructed three years earlier for official government use. Maintenance had not been done and the buildings had fallen into a state of disrepair in that short time. No church building of any denomination existed on the island and none was to be constructed until the original St. Paul's parish church was completed in 1803. Under the leadership of Governor Patterson a political scandal developed on the Island regarding misappropriation of government funds (some of which was intended for the purpose of erecting a church building) in order to pay the salaries of those on the Civil List ( Government officials). This led to his eventual recall. In 1784, partly in response to this political crisis and partly due to the influx of United Empire Loyalists on the mainland and their call for representative (if not responsible) government, the British Government enacted changes to the governmental set-up in Nova Scotia and on the Island. The Province of Nova Scotia was divided into the provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick . was granted its own government with a Lieutenant - Governor , and the rank of Governor of St. John's Island was reduced to that of a Lieutenant - Governor , subject to the Governor -in- Chief of Nova Scotia . Two years later the set-up was again changed. The rank of the governors of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick was reduced to that of lieutenant-governor and a new Governor -in- Chief was established at Quebec . W.M. Whitelaw . in his book The Maritimes and Canada Before Confederation, saw the situation that existed from 1786 onwards in these terms: There were now four lieutenant governors in the Maritime area. But this did not mean that each was of necessity independent of each other. The lieutenant governor of Nova Scotia acted upon the authority of a warrant that gave him the powers of the governor- in-chief of Nova Scotia during the latter's absence; and the latter, being also governor-in-chief of Canada , was always absent. But the Commission of the governor-in-chief of Nova Scotia still included the two islands. To that extent the lieutenant governor continued to have supervisory authority not over Nova Scotia alone but also over "its dependencies". It was 50. Ibid. p. 340. 33