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Extracts front Otc Petition to the King, We most liumbly suggest to Your Majesty, that the adoption of tlir follcwiiiB projxtHitions us 'lie rule of law iii Upper Canada, is essential- ly necessary to its freedom and happiness ns ati integral portion of I'l'- empirfi ; and we earnestly beseecli Your Majesty lo direct Your Mi- nisters to give the measures we have suggested iheir hearty and cfli- uent supixjrt : 1. That the qualified electors of the colony may be fairly and equal- ly rcpresentetl in the House of Assembly. 2. That the people may by their representatives have the control of nil monies whatsoever coming into the hands of the government, whe- ther ni ising from taxes duties or crown lands. 3. That the land granting department (concerning the operations of which very little is known to the province), and the sale and dispojj ^ of all lands and other public property, be regulated for the future off by law. 4. That the Crown and Clergy Reserves, and all reservations of land, otherwise than for the purposes of education and roads, be abolished. 5. That the control over all statute labour, and over all other local assessments, taxes, rates, and imposts, raised or levied in the town.", townships, counties and districts of this province, be placed in the (|iialilied electors at their town meetings ; or in commissioners duly au- tliorlzcd by the said electors, when for county and district purposes. C That the undue preferences and exclusive privileges and immuni- ties allowed and extended by the colonial government to certain reli- gious sects or denominations, be abolished. 7. That a less expensive and more prompt and efficient system bo rs« tablished for the free and equal administration of justice ; that mat- ters of small amount and dimculiy may be disposed of with as much regard lo the legal rights of >he parties as matters of greater amount and difficulty, but at a le.ss expcnce ; and that no fees be exacted, the tariff of v^ hich is not established by au act of the provincial legisla- ture. 8. That the right of imneachment and the mode of trial be fully and clTectunlly recognized ana established. 9. That none of Your Majesty's Judges, nor clergymen of any de- nomination, he enabled to hold seats either in tlic executive or legisla- tive councils, or in any way to interfere and concern tiieiuselvcs in the executive or legislative business of the province. 10. That the real estate of f)ersons dying intestate may not descend to the eldest son, to the cxclusmn of his brctlwen, but be eqiUally divided among the children, male and female. 11. That administering to yoiir ithful Colonial people, that justice which Your Majesty lias dispen^ u .oonr Icllow siilijecis in Great Bri- tain, Your Majesty will cause thu same constitutional principle which lias called your present Ministers to oiticc to be fully recognized and uniformly acted upon in Upper Canada ; so that we may see those on- ly who iKwsesa the confidence of tlie people composing ilie executive council of Your Majesty's representative. We humbly pray Yoiir Majesty to disattotv, annul and make void a bill passe in tlie last session of the parliament of this province, enti- tled " an act to repeal an -xct passed in tlie fifth session of the sixth parliament of this Province, entitled ' an act for granting to Ilis Majes- ty a sum of money towards defraying the expenses of the civil admin- jstration of the government of thi« province,' and for granting to \\U Majesty a certain sum of money to be applied towards the payment in" the expenses of the administration of Justice itnd the support of the ci- vil government of this province ;" as also another bill passed in the raid last session, entitled " an act for vesting in Trustees the Market Ki]uare in the Town of York, for the benefit of the inhabitants of tlic fiaid Town." Wc would also htimbly intreat Your Majesty's protection against the jmssage of laws in the Unitedlly be liquidated, and the surplus re- venues of the colony prudently applied to purposes of general utility; That the Stockholders of the Bank of I ip|M'r (^lnnda may not con- tinue lo enjoy a monopoly of tlic wliole Banking biiainesx of the Pro- vince ; but, tniit, under judicious rugulatiuus. Banks may be establislicil in other sections of the country ; That in elections of membera to lervc in Parliament for any county in this Province, in which a poll shall be demanded, the votes of the freeiioldrrs moy be taken at two, (liree, or more fixed placen or statioii^, the most central and convenient for the electors to ansemble nt, and the poll kep2 open by the Returning Officer nt each of these places for a pi^rlod iiumcieni iu «nnbJ<) tiicni tu hav. their iiunragr? rccurdfd, un- less the olcrtlon should bo otheiwlr- sooner determined ; or, that tho Township Otlirers may be autJiorized to take the votes of the elcctura In their several TownshlM; That Jurors be drawn ny lot from lists of the best gualllled persons In the several Towns and TownshliM, or appointed in wiine other modo less liable to parliallly and abiux' than an arbitrary m.-lK'tiim of tlieni tiy HIierifT* or Coimiers, dependant for their appointment, Income, and rvntinaaiioe in office, upon Ui« vriJI oi Uie £tecuUro Uorerwnent.