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I ~}^ Additional comments:/ L:_] Commentaires supplimentaires; [Printed ephemera] 1 sheet, [4] p. This item is filmed at the reduction ratio checked below/ Ce document est filmd au taux de reduction indiqu f/9?^'. r^ /^^^ ^77? \'<' ' - ~ •-■DtLfJi »%t • 1^ f ^i) f i^S^fi^l W ®lf4Eli^ The tooU to thou who can hindlo them. — CARtVll. I am no Ohetp Swell. No oodfiih Ariaiuorat. Put me down with Bill Bladea, the bricklayer, every time, and all the timti. Bill and I may be roagh and the like o' that, But we ain't no bloomin' fooli. And thia ii what we aay :— "Tia the moke ai drawa ibe Truck about, Ai ought to get moat greena." Kind friends, a word with you, if you please. I have twice applied to the Legislative As- sembly of Ontario that they be pleased to pass a Bill to enable me to practise as a Silicitor in the Supreme Court of Judicature on my pasaine the usual final examination, but without having to serve an apprenticeship of five years to a member of the Law Society in Canada. My reasons for anking that I should be exempt from serving the said apprenticeship are fully stated in the capers sent you herewith. But as you may not have the time to spare to peruse the same, [ shall state to you as briefly as I can what those reasons are : — 1. I studied in a Scotch University the following branches :— Latin, Greek, Mathematics, Logic, Moral Philosophy and Scotch Law and Conveyancing. 2. I served an apprenticeship of five years to a Scotch Lawyer. 3. I was admitted and did practise as a Lawyer in Scotland for five years. 4. I served as a Clerk in Toronto L:i wyers' offices for over three year:^. 6. For the past four years I have been constantly engaged in the study and the practice of the Law, so far as I could do so without being a Solicitor entitled to practise before the Supreme Court of Judicature. 6. And lastly, I am about 40 years of iige, I have the care, maintenance and responsibilit;.- of a household, consisting of my two sisters, one of whom is a widow with four children, the other in associated with me in my business as a lawyer, and acts as my book-keeper. So much for the merits of my case. Now you may wish to know if there are any precedents for such an application. In reply, I would ^ay, there are many precedents. From the papers sent herewith you will see that the Legislature has, in 15 cases, passed Acts of Parlinment on behalf of applicants who made somewhat litrHln-r J^1lp)i^;ftt,if?n'', J%.e li , I find that a Mr. Pope (William 'Valtor), wos granted an Act such as I desire. On reference to the Act I find that the reason that he got passed was " the old, old story," namely, poverty, and thereby not being able to serve an apprenticeship to a Canadian lawyer for nothing. However, Billy had one cir- cumstance in his favor, he was a clerk in the employment of Lawyer John Bell, who acts an Solicitor for the Grand Trunk Railway, another monopoly. Let us turn to the case of Belos R. Davis. Delos is a colored gentleman who had been teach- ing the young idea how to shoot for some four years, when a happy thought struck him, he would like to be a full-fledged lawyer. He had never served any apprenticeshifi ; but this did not de- ter the festive Delos. He made application and was admitted to the privileges I crave by 47 Vic, Cap. 94. But I fear Delos is a little bit of a hog, for I find our worthy colored brother, in two years from his admis.sion, bobs up serenely from below to the Legislature. This time he wants to be a Barrister, and, "lucky dog " that he is, the Legislature kindly granted his request. See 49 Vic, Cap. 93. Now friends, it is significant, and please note. — The Liw Socigtv nkvek opposed any of THESE FiFTEE.v APPLICATIONS. BtU the Law Society oppose me. The Law Society are wise in theii, generation in selecting their victim. Had they, for a v a mpj f , troafcj a wi l d, luuiiiafe IrUliiiian liko Peta f Ryan, as they have done me — a patient. long-suffering Scotchman — why Peter v/ould have fallen upon them, — he would have smote them, — he would nave torn their he ir ; and after Peter had done wit'.i them, the only traces left of the Law Society would be a hu| fe tombstone, on which cruel Peter would ba writing the follow- ing epitaph : — Hit' JACET Law Society, Who Lied in Life, Now Lib in Death, EMI (RACING, IN THE REAUIS OF HaDE-S, The Lawyers who have gone before, "AlID THEY never WOULD BE MISSED." Peter meanwhile, as he surveyed! the result of his handiwork, would be singing to hianself- "The still, siiii all voice is a singing comic songs within me, And all is p eace and joy." ing' This writing is not for the purpose and powerful Trades Union, s^ki and most powerful members of i great monopolies) in this country and tlie Iaw Society of Upper O at the Legislature except I am s' of finciing any fault with the Law Society, which is a close ^ to live up to its privileges. As you know, many of the ablest I Jbe Legislature are members of this Trades Union. The three ire " 'The (Jrand Trunk Railway, the Canadian Pacific Railway, Q mada." I am told that it is almost hopeless for me to get justice ii pported by one or other of these Corporations, or "haveinflu- encc." Fortunately or unfortunately, I will not say which, I am not connected iir any way with any powerful Incorporation, nor have I influence ; but I aui a British Hubje<;t, and a freeholder of this lair Province. I aui further one of the people, and I ap|)eal to you, the |)eople of Ontario, for the small measure of justice that I have in vain askeoon crave, to join with me in ptititioning the Legislature for that end. My notion is, that if the Bill does not go through this session, t'.iat I will, during the summer of 18!)0, prejiare forms of putitioiu, and distribute them throughout the Province. I would commence Uiis year by gettmg up a petition from Toronto and the vicinity, where I am well known, signed by |)erhaps .'),000 voters. If the Legislature did not think that petition sufficient, why then year by year I would get up other and larger petitions. In short, for tl o next session of Parliament I would lay before the Legislature in support of my Bill a petition signed by say 5,000 of the votore of Toronto and vicinity ; then if that IS not enough, I would take a few constituencies year by year, rolling up the petition as the years went on, and by and by we might have a |)etition -!;,'n'id by say 100,000 voters, which I think might even convince the iuember.t of the Law Society w iO are high in power in the Legis- lature, that even a poor devil like myself, one of the common people, has some rights deserving of consideration and respect Poverty is no crime, but it is mighty inconvenient. In my case it prevented me from serving five years in a Canadian Lawyer's Office for nothing. If I had been well fixed, and had had plenty of money, why I could have afforded to have taken a five years' turn in a one horse lawyer's office, and at the ena of that term, u|>on passing the final examination, I would have been ad- mitted as a mattei' of course as a solicitor to practise before a Supreme Court's Judicature, and my application to the Legislature would havo been render