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D Colourad covara/ Couvartura da coulaur I I Covars damagad/ Couvartura andommag^a □ Covars restored and/or laminated/ Couverture restaurAa at/ou pallicul4a □ Cover title miasing/ La titra da couverture manqua □ Coloured maps/ Cartas giographiques en coulaur □ Coloured ink (i.e. other than blue or black)/ Encre de couleur (i.e. autre que bleue ou noire) □ Coloured plates and/or illuotrations/ Planches et/ou illustrations en couleur □ Bound with other material/ Ralii avec d'autres documents D D Tight binding may cause shadows or distortion along interior margin/ La .*w liura serrie peut causer da I'ombre ou de la distorsion l« long de la marge int^rieure Blank leaves added during restoration may appear within the text. Whenever possible, these have been omitted from filming/ II se peut que certaines pagea blanches ajout«es lors d'une restauration apparaiasent dana la texte. mais, lorsque cela 6tait possible, ces pagea n'ont paa 6ti filmias. L'Instltut a microfilm* la mailJeur exemplaire qu'il lui a iti possible de se procurer. Les details de cet exemplaire qui sont peut-Atre uniques du point de vue bibliographique, qui peuvent modifier une image reprodulte, ou qui peuvent exiger une modification dans la m«thoda normale de f ilmaga sont indiqute ci-dessous. r^ Coloured pages/ Pagea de couleur Pages damaged/ Pages endommagdes Pages restored and/oi Pages restauribs et/ou pelliculAes Pages discoloured, stained or foxec. 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Thoae too large to be entirely included in one expoaure are filmed beginning in the upper left hand corner, left to right and top to bottom, aa many framea aa required. The following diagrama illustrate the method: L'exempiaira film* fut reproduit grice A la gAnirositi da: D. B. Weidon Library University of Western Ontario (Regional History Room) Lee images suivantae ont tti raproduites avac la plus grand soin, compta tenu de la condition 9t da fa natteti de l'exempiaira film*, at an conformiti avav las conditions du contrat da filmage. Lee exempiairae originaux dont la couverture an papier eat imprimte sont filmte an commandant par la premier plat at an terminant solt par la darnlAre pege qui comporte une amprainto d'impreaaion ou d'illustration, soit par la second plat, salon la caa. Tous las autras axamplairas originaux sont filmte wn commenqant par la premiere page qui comporte une amprainte d'imprasaion ou d'illustration at an terminant par la darniAre paga qui compoita une telle empreinte. Un dea symbolaa suivants apparaitra sur la darniire image de cheque microfiche, selon le caa: le symbols — ^ signifie "A SUIVRE". le symbols V signifie "FIN". Lee cartaa. planches, tableaux, etc., peuvent atra filmte A das taux da rMuction diff«rants. Lorsque le document est trop grand pour 4tre reproduit en un seul ciichA, il eat fllm« A partir de I'angle sup^rieur gauche, de gauche d droite. et de haut an baa. an prenant la nombre d'imagas nteessaira. Las diagrammas suevants illuatrant la mAthoda. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 f0 TM HOMOBikBLE THE 3E.I§ISMTI?fi ASSSJ880 Tljat ihe gwiBting to Coropamcs the privilei^ of loaning mooey at high «t«is of interest, and to private individaalMhe rigftt lo loan money ai any rate wMchraay be agreed upoo, is yery pwjodleial to the interests Q,f ihe cQimti7i a«»fi has heeq the caaw of the rain of many thonsand^ d|^ best men it. the ooantry, Unt when lands arc mortgaged to C<)-.pani«*, il>ey are in » majorj^ of cases not reAHSteed— i»t from m amount of money borrowed, bat from i he high wte of itttetest charged. %ni pri»^.liartiea,are charging from t«s «p hfty |)f r cent., and when even l .^ besj security i* given, tvealy per cent, is not an wiwjommon interest, Capital, which would otherwise be investeil in Bank Stoofev and thereby increase the wealth and efficiency of the Banlcs, enabling them to giyo a moru liberal accommodation.to their customers and a greater impetus to trade, is now invested in Building Societies and other Compattfca chwrtwed m loan money, or is ftlaced in the h-^nds pf lawyer*, Nvho, in oddUion tg ^^ high rate gf lnie««l, charge large fees, . , your petitioners therefore humbly pray that your »onourable Body wiU pass an Act restricting the rate of laterest to Seven per cent., and that a i|irecl or indirect violation of the same be paiii*h«d l» forfeitnteofthc moneyioanedorusedinpnrchase. * '•'■'■ \nd yuor petitioners as in duty bonnd will ever pray, tignsAT, Jane *<^ '^^- ' ' ' ' :i\ (;