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 Local Govetnment of Kbva 
 -throDjs^ its present nominal 
 P. C. Hill, has dared oi^oe 
 fQlicll the confidence of th« 
 tbii ProviiKje. We w^ 
 ^^fswraise we can har^y oQn- 
 ^^30^ a morepmpud^nt atad n|i- 
 abl<tr«|uest^ For ths tluef wW 
 _' " i*il your property to 
 pt<etauk|noar conlidentie j for 
 T%ho has erabezzled all your 
 te to ask to retaia ^ place ; or 
 ^jfoir ^ •conndni} vibo has brought ia- 
 '"temsfe shame upon your family to still 
 ^xfket your esteem ; might each be re- 
 garded as somewhat presumptous ; but 
 we undertake to show that the claim 
 put forth by the present Local Govern- 
 ment of Nova Scotia surpasses all 
 combined in etixuntery aiid brazen 
 mendacity. The men who now form 
 that Government, and those who were 
 the predecessors, and whose policy 
 and sins they became respoiisibl' lor, 
 hare bi-ought upon the people a this 
 Province both disgrace and ruin, and 
 that in their deepest and most danger 
 bus character. 
 
 The 'electors of Nova Scotia have 
 only to look at the liistory of this coun- 
 try for the past eleven years in order 
 to discover the extent of the dishonesty 
 and incapacity of Hon. P. C. Hill, his 
 «oUeagues, and predeceMiore. It be- 
 comes our duty, as it is the duty of 
 tjvery citiwsu, tom;i*U liutl uiaUuy, aiai 
 in answer to Mr, Hill's misleading and 
 
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 oorni|>t aniKi 
 
 reooH .th»k i:^«i3t| 
 
 ntle xaaat 
 
 tt^Am 4^ the wt 
 
 «f the pittitlie doniaiib It* i» 
 
 beyond belief that aj^Jbody «ii 
 
 could bo found so was" '" '" 
 
 ism as to wilfiilfy, 
 
 dissipate and destrojt <«|n|^ tbw 1 
 
 otpal sources of th^^uraoaiby'B] ' 
 
 and yet th«t is pv^ecnely ^vhai, 
 
 men have done. 1ft 1867, the ai 
 
 of Crown Lands wllSdii this 
 
 polsessed was {vid^ Asse 
 
 nals, app'x No. 5) 7,3l5,2lj 
 
 This was certain^ ft 
 
 being within a feW hat 
 
 as much Crown Laiidi^ a*^ 
 
 wick possessed, aad dvisg 
 
 imity to the sea, nraohp^i-^ 
 
 Yet strange to say, wl^P^NB* 
 
 wick was able, in ISf^^lNr^^ s«^ 
 
 retaining by far the nUf^r"^" — "^ 
 
 its original domain) to r( 
 
 enue of $76,047.47 frcMn Ij 
 
 Lands, our revenue for tl^ iMtmM^9ar 
 
 from that source was Qalyl|li^||%^, 
 
 or only $1200 over tivB w«^- ' 
 
 penses of the DejMirtii^nt |- 
 
 same time we retaia (vi4€ I 
 
 Comr. of Crown tioM^fv^ 
 
 K\__l._. OMQT 4.1a .>.»»■. 
 
 become of the bak^ee t 
 
 
doced ike difference between us and 
 Ne^ Bronnwickl The Journals of the 
 House of Assembly shew as follows : 
 Na of acres of ungrantetl 
 ^ fands in Nova Scotia on 
 
 Ist. JAi», 1867, as j»er 
 ^ « repoi"^ Commissioner 
 ^"^Z"" CrJ^n Lands, 1867 7,315,282 
 ili^^f acres granted since, 
 
 as per journals of the 
 
 House : 
 
 1867 107,948 
 
 1868 91,844 
 
 1869 64,763 
 
 1870 95.868 
 
 1871 134,70,T 
 
 1872 136,712 
 
 1873 115,936 
 
 1874 107,337 
 
 1875 46,483 
 
 1876 34,962 
 
 1877 25,758 
 
 956,316 
 
 6,358,966 
 Amount of uugi-anted 
 lands Ist Jan. 1878, as 
 per report of Commis- 
 sioner of Crown Lands, 
 1877 '. 2,487,419 
 
 Bal. nRaccoiinted for 3,871,545 
 
 What has become of this three mil- 
 lion and a half (allowing for the land 
 granted for railway purposes) of acres 
 of land. No man has ever risen yet 
 to show, and no man is able to show. 
 All that is known is that several mer- 
 chants in Halifax who are in the habit 
 of providing the siniews of war in 
 Grit elections, have, during the past 
 ten years become possessed of enor- 
 mous tracts of territory — and certain 
 remarkable scoundrels who sat in the 
 Local House servilely supj)oi-ting the 
 Government, have lieen found to have 
 grants of land for which they never 
 paid, and possessed enormous tracts of 
 ten-itory for which in the nature of 
 things they never could j>ay. Tims 
 it has been brought about that scores 
 of coniipt scoundrels have grown en- 
 ormously wealthy; that a weak and 
 corrupt GoveiTirnent hp-S Ijeen v-'finilj-j-- 
 
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 fully and mysteriously retained in 
 jKjwer ; and tliat a soui-ce of revenue 
 which in New Bininswick yields $76, 
 000 i)er annum, has been in this Pro- 
 vince, 80 dissipated and squandered 
 that it yields comjiaratively nothinsr. 
 
 Tlie evil effects on the Province of 
 this scandulous and coniipt allienation 
 of nearly the whole marketable Crown 
 Lands of the country, ai"e numerous 
 and alanning. In the first place, a 
 source of revenue which if properly 
 guarded would have yielded this prov- 
 ince at least 840,000 j>er annum for- 
 ever, has been entirely wa«ted and 
 destroyed. The people of Nova Sco- 
 tia, as long as wator i-uns and wind 
 blows, will have 840,000 a year less 
 revenue then they might have had, if 
 they had a wise and honest govern- 
 ment. For the luxury of having the 
 Grits in i)ower lor the past eleven 
 years, we have in one dei)artrnent lost 
 over thi-ee million acres of land, which 
 at forty-four cents an acru would 
 amount to at least 81,200,000, and the 
 pioceeds of the 956,000 aerest accoun- 
 ted for, wasted in useless and corrupt 
 extravagance. 
 
 Another effect of the wholesale ali- 
 enation of the public lands (the balance 
 on hand being mostly barrens) will be 
 to render it impossible for the young 
 men of this Province, or parties who 
 may wish to make this Province theii' 
 home, ever to procuro farms from the 
 government at the government price. 
 The lands of the Piovince will, by the 
 maladministration of Mr. Hill and his 
 predecessors, be locked up for genera- 
 tions to come, in the hands of selfish 
 speculators, who may sell or not, as 
 they see fit, and if they sell only at 
 such prices as they chose to demand. 
 What jnoperly belonged to the j)eople 
 of Nova Scotia as a birthright to be 
 enjoyed by them and their children 
 after them, has been thus squandered 
 and destroyed. An injury has thus 
 been inflicted on this Province, which 
 no arithmetic can adequately calculate. 
 And all for what 1 Simply that a 
 number of ambitious and dishonest 
 politicians migiit bc* kept ill power, and 
 
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that the supjwrt which they found 
 it necoBsary to buy might be purehased 
 and paid for ! Will the eleotora of 
 Nova Scotia vote to perpetuate the ex- 
 iHteuce of a Guverumeat like thin ? 
 
 dition to be ille^lly £mw»r «At» MBK 
 
 DRAWN UPON FAWB 
 
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 THE $6,710,»4. 
 
 In the Journals of the House of As- 
 sembly for 1870 (App'x No. 18. p. 
 19) appears the following entry of a 
 payment made by the Local Govern- 
 in the preceeding year: " Robt. Boak, 
 Jr., to pay peoi)le'3 delegate's exjieuses 
 to England, $6,710,94." No author- 
 ity whatever had been granted by 
 Parliament for any such payment, and 
 the appearance of such a disbursement 
 naturally excited considerable feeling 
 and discussion. Upon explanations 
 being demanded from the Government 
 it was at first stated that several gen- 
 tlemen in Hfriifax having subscribed 
 money to defray the expenses of the 
 so-called *• People's delegation," in 
 1876, this money had \yeen paid by 
 the Government to recoup them. 
 Tlus explanation, even if true, was 
 far from satisfactory. It did not 
 excuse the payment without author- 
 ity of Parliament, and it established a 
 most dangerous precedent which future 
 administrations might use to the great 
 loss of the Province. But even this 
 explanation was soon found to be a 
 falsehood. Hon. Senator Northup, 
 Hon. W. J. Stairs, Judge Mai-shall, 
 Mr. Seeton, and others who had been 
 among the largest subscriber to that 
 fund, at once came forward and posi- 
 tively denied that any jwrtion of the 
 money had been appipnriated to the 
 pui-poses for which itj A^as osten^bly 
 di-awn, and that the subscribers who 
 had borne the expenses of the "people's 
 deleffi>,tes" had never been recoujwd 
 to the extent of a dollar. It was thus 
 made apparent that the money, in ad- 
 
 This discovery led to furthti" f|l»«*l: 
 gation and inquiiy, and it w» l|ii^ j 
 tained that tho money had actB^fgr 
 been paid to a Grit Political'jLeagui in ^^ 
 this city, and liad been uded by thei»/|* 
 in hounding to death the Hon. Joseph 
 Howe in his election in 1 869 ! Thug it 
 was established beyond question that 
 this large sum of money had been il- 
 legally and dishonestly abstracted from 
 the Treasury, and corruptly expended 
 in attempting to defeat oae of the 
 greatest statesman this Province ever 
 produced. No more scandalous trans- 
 action was ever unearthed in this coun- 
 try. It was simply barefaced plunder- 
 ing of the Treasury combined with 
 coiTuption and the basest ingi-atitude. 
 In the Hoiise of Assembly in 1871 
 {Debates 1871, p, 202) Mr. P. C. 
 Hill the present nominal leader of the 
 Government said in reference to this 
 affair : — " I mlintain that the Govem- 
 " -ment were guilty of a great wrong 
 " in the whole of that transaction. In 
 " the first place the entry in the pub- 
 " lie accounts was not a truthful one : 
 " the entry says paid to Robeii; 
 " Eioak, Jr., to day the expenses of 
 " the people's delegation. Now, a . 
 " great number of those who contri- 
 " buted to these exjienses — Mi. Stairs, 
 " Mr. Northup, Mr. Seeton, Judge 
 " Marshall, and othei-s, have stated 
 " publicly that they never received any 
 "part of that money. Again, the 
 " money was taken without the vote of 
 " the Legisliture, and for s. long time 
 " the payment was concealed. It was 
 " 011^ after a long interval that the 
 " Government brought it to light. 
 " Again, I hold, by the admission of 
 " tlie Treasurer, that the money was 
 " exj^ended for corrupt and improper 
 " purixwes — that it was expended in 
 " the elections which took place in two 
 " counties. That instead of sotting an. 
 "example of morality to the i)eople, 
 " THE Government, first approprIt 
 
 "ATED THE PUBLIC MONEY UNDER. 
 " FALSE REPRESENTATIONS ; SECONDLY^ 
 " THEY EXPENDED IT WITHOUT THE 
 
" AUTHOBITY OF THE LEOIBLATt'RE ; 
 " THIRDLY, THEY EXPENDED THE 
 " MONEY IN CORRUPTION." 
 
 TbiB was Mr. Hill's ileliberat* opiu- 
 ion in 1871, :ind yot, although that 
 money has never been i-efnnfled, Mr. 
 Hill is now ritting cheek by jowl with 
 the principal actor in that nefarious 
 transaction. He is to-day asking for 
 a renewal of i)Ower for the i)arty that 
 committed this series of crimes, while 
 he neither attempts to deny tlie crim- 
 uality of their condu.'t, nor to comi)el 
 i-estitution by tho.se, who have ab- 
 stracted the money. Tliia sum, which 
 with interest now amounts to over 
 .*1 0,000, still remains uncollected, in 
 the hands of those who have no more 
 light to the money, than any man can 
 have to what Itelongs aKsolutely and 
 pi-Of)evly to another. And still Mr. 
 Hill, altiiough he denounced the crime, 
 as " a treble cord of disgiace," iias tlie 
 cool assurance to ask the jieople of 
 Nova 8cotia to still retain in jiower 
 the party who alone ai-e responsible for 
 its perpeti-ation ! V/e have but little 
 doubt that the electors of this Province 
 will give a fitting answer to such a 
 scandalous request. 
 
 $S00 ** TAKEN TO PIT DOWN 
 BRIBERY AND CORRl'P- 
 TION." 
 
 • 
 Shoi-tly before the Local General 
 Elections of 1871, Mr. Hill's prede- 
 cessor, the sainted Annand published 
 in his newspajKjr a number of won- 
 derful scandals reflecting on the char- 
 acter of the Hon. Dr. Parker, Hon. 
 James McDonald, Mr. P. C. Hill and 
 others. Mr. Annand in effect charged 
 tipon these men that they had at- 
 tempted to bribe, seduce, and mislead 
 one j'eter McJMab. These charges 
 though promptly denied and refuted 
 
 by the gentlemen concerned, were 
 ne'-erthelesH so industriously circula- 
 tefl and so |)ersisteutly reiterated by 
 Mr. Annand and his protege, Mr. 
 McNab, that they had no small effect 
 on the elections then pending. Hav- 
 ing thus served tlie ])uq)oee for which 
 they were oi-iginally designed, the 
 subject ceased to l)e of any further 
 interest to Mr. Ann.ind or his paper. 
 
 The niiitter was, however, not al- 
 io we<l to i-est. Mr. Peter McNab 
 having in the meantnue been appoin- 
 tee! to an imj)ortant office under the 
 Local Government, was a few years 
 afterward arrested chsirged with at- 
 tempt to commit murder, but feigning 
 insanity, was through the influence of 
 the Local Government removed to 
 the Insane Asylum, In 1874 Mr. 
 McNab approached the House of As- 
 sembly by ])etition, in which he 
 admitted his perfect sanity and fully 
 exiwsed the me-ans by which the slan- 
 dei-s of 1871 had Ijeen concocted. 
 Among other disclosures, he stated 
 that he had received from Mr Annand 
 out of the Treasury of this Province, 
 aliout the 1st of August, 1872, the 
 sum of $200, although he did not at 
 that time nor for some time aftei-wards 
 hold any office under the Government ! 
 ( Vide Assembly Debates, 1874, p, 80,) 
 So startling were these statements 
 and disclosures, that Mr. Annand 
 felt called ujion to rise and explain. 
 In thei " Chronicle" new8pa})er of 1st 
 April, 1874, appeared the following 
 statement : 
 
 " Most of the statements made in 
 the so-called })etitioi) of Peter McNab, 
 presented in the House of Assembly 
 on Monday, are, as we have said, fal.se, 
 and appear so on theii- face, and as the 
 work of an insane man, the petition is 
 not entitleil to any attention. "We 
 may say, however, that there is one 
 partially tnie statement in it, and that 
 is that Mr. McNab receivetl $200 in 
 advance from Mr. Annand. Unfor- 
 tunately for Mr. Annand that is the 
 fact. • » # * # Yieldinir to 
 this i)re.SHnre Mr. Annand advanced 
 him $200, trusting to l« repaid when 
 
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Mr. McNab got his office. The ad- 
 vance teas a personal one." 
 
 This statement was 8o singular, in 
 the face of the fact that the money had 
 been paid out of the Trcasurj', that Mr. 
 Woodworth moved for the appoiatireDt 
 nfa committee to 'iTestigate the whole 
 matter. {Dehatei 1874. p. 83.) The 
 committee proceeded to examine Mr. 
 AoDand, Mr. Brine (the chief clerk in 
 the Treasurer's ofBee), Mr, Vail and 
 others. The evidence taken {vide Ai' 
 tembly JournaU app'x No. 40) eswb- 
 liabes the followiog facts : — 
 
 Ist. That McNab had " approached"' 
 Mr. Aonand, and that the scan- 
 dals which were put in circulatioo 
 in his name, were the result of an ar- 
 rangement and conference between those 
 worthies on Sanday, the 2nd April, 
 1871. 
 
 2nd. That the $200 was paid by Mr. 
 Brine, by Mr. Annand's orders, to Mr. 
 McNab out of the money of the Province 
 when no amount was due to McNab for 
 any service whatever. 
 
 3rd. That the money was never repaid 
 by either Mr. Annandy or McNab, . 
 
 4th. That to entry of the payment 
 was ever made on the books of the 
 Treasurer's office. 
 
 Notwithstanding the fact that the 
 majority of the committee (composed 
 of Mr. Samuel Freeman and Mr. W. 
 H. Wylde— whose peculiar relations 
 with the Government have since been 
 ' brought to light, and which was no 
 doubt the cause of their being selected) 
 reported exonerating Mr. Anoand, the 
 facts were undeniable that Mr. McNab 
 had received $200, fir/ which he had 
 given no hOne»t oonsi''ieration, and that 
 the Province had lost $200 which Mr. 
 Annand refused to refund. 
 
 The public were also shown by this 
 exposure how Grit "scandals" were 
 manufactured, and the infamous means 
 to which Mr. Annand and his party 
 would stoop to injure the character of 
 gentlemen wh' to they knew to be above 
 reproach. The emarkabi? book-keeping 
 ot the Treasurer's office was also made 
 apparent, which could lose $200 and still 
 could make accounts balance I The 
 spectacle of the leader of a Government, 
 spending Sunday concocting slander 
 in company with a person like McNab 
 is disgraceful in the extreme. A Trea- 
 surer taksBST $200 of the mosev of the 
 Province, to reward a person who hsd 
 served hia base purposes, is certainly 
 
 njt reassuring. A system of bookkMpt 
 ing which can pay money without 
 showing it, 48 certainly not the mtem 
 best adapted for the government of this, 
 or any other country. And yet it ia to 
 condone such oifences, and to perpetuate 
 such a iiysiem of government, that Mr. 
 Bill invites the electors of tbia oonntry 
 to support him and*his party ! Verily 
 he sball receive his answer. 
 
 TBB pcBi.<ic PKinTine. 
 
 From 1867 to 1875, Mr. W. B. Vail 
 was Provincial Secretary, and William 
 Annand Premier and Treasurer of this 
 Province- They were placed in their 
 positions by the party now in power; 
 they are still controlling spirits in the 
 policy of the Government; and Mr. Hill 
 and his colleagues are fully responsible 
 for their conduct while holding these 
 offices. During the aforemeotioned 
 period, Mr- Annand was, with his son, 
 Charles Annand, a proprietor of the 
 "Chronicle" newspaper, and Mr. Vail 
 was, from 1871 until 1878, with Mr. 
 Jones, M. P., a proprietor of the 
 "Citizen." Mr. Hugh W. Blackadar, 
 the present political Postmaster of 
 Halifax, was also, up to 1875, Queen's 
 Printer, and a proprietor of the "I^"' 
 corder" establishment The dealings, 
 therefore, of the "Chronicle," "Citi- 
 zen,'' and "Recorder" with the Gov- 
 ernment will be seen to be the trans« 
 actions of Messrs. Annand, Vail, and 
 Blackadar respectively. The basi- 
 ne:>s dealings ot the Premier, the 
 Provincial Secretary, and Queen's 
 Printer, of a Government with the 
 Government of which they were such 
 important officers, and of which two of 
 them at least were the sworn custodians 
 of its Treasury, would naturally be ex- 
 pected to be particularly straightfoi' 
 ward and above reproach. While, pre« 
 viously in our history, leading mem< 
 bers of Governments had freauentljy 
 been accused of allowing otners to 
 have highly remunerative dealinea 
 with their Governments, up to 1867 
 
 tn tjis credit of this CQuntrv"~nQ 
 
 man had ever dar^d to impeach the 
 personal honesty of any member of any 
 
of our Governnaenls, as far as related to 
 their personal dealioifg with the Govs 
 ernmcDt, with which thoy were con- 
 ceoted. Unfortunately lor Nova Scotia, 
 this Slate of affairs only lasted until 
 1867. In that year, the men whose 
 names we have mentioned were 
 intrusted, as we have indicated, with 
 our a£fairti, and the%re8ults were, as we 
 will show, a heavy pecuniary loss to 
 the Province, and an indelible di grace 
 on our Provincial history. Their ad« 
 vent to power was unpromising in the 
 extreme- It was known that Mr. 
 Annand, while previously in the Qovern« 
 ment, from 1859 to 1863, had become 
 connected wiih a notorious swindling 
 concern—" the Nova Scotia Land and 
 Gold Crushing and Amalgamating 
 Company"— the dishonest transactions 
 and collapse of which had completely 
 ruined, in England the crnlir of Nova 
 Scotia mining stock. Mr. Vail's we'l- 
 known avarice and inability to distins 
 guish between right and wrong, gave 
 him also a doubtful character. But no 
 person suspected, and very few have 
 even yet, an adequate conception of, the 
 extent to which these men vere pre- 
 pared to cheat and defraud, and did in 
 lact cheat and defraud, the Treasury of 
 this Province. By a sort of tripartite 
 agreement, by which each of these 
 worthies agreed to wink at and conceal 
 he dishonesty of the others, Mr. 
 Annand, Mr. Vail, and Mr. Blackudar, 
 commenced, ind for many years 
 prosecuted, a series of transactions, and 
 a system of dealing -in the matter of 
 Public Printing— with the Government 
 (of which two of them were members, 
 and the other Quoen's Printer) that, 
 considering the positions o! the parties, 
 their long continued operaiious, and 
 the magnitude of the sums wiiich thu-y 
 abstracted from the Treasury, surpasses 
 in criminal dishonesty any "scandal" 
 that was ever unearthed in this or any 
 other country enjoying consututional 
 Government. It was d.ff^reat from the 
 "Beauport Scandal" in Queb c, our 
 own "Crown Ljnds Scandal," or the 
 "Steel Rails," "Godericn Hiirbor," 
 "Neebing Hotel," and other multitu- 
 dinous scandals whiuh disgrace the D i- 
 minion Government ; inasmuch as tlii^y 
 only reveal dishonest duuliuns of the 
 governments with support",! s, while in 
 the matter of Public Prmting the 
 members of our Government dealt dis« 
 
 meat for the benefit of themselves as 
 
 pnnters-swindlins: thcmsclven. as a 
 Government, of tena of thousands of 
 dollars, which they placed in their own 
 pockcli, as printers, regardless of their 
 oaths of office, the interests of the Pro* 
 Tince, or the honor of the couutry. 
 
 How long this state of things would 
 have been allowed to exist if the Oppo- 
 sition h»d not interfered, we are not 
 prepared to say. Certain it is that it 
 was in operation when Mr. IJill 
 pined the Government ia 1874, and 
 jcontinued in full blast— notwithstanding 
 its exposure in 1875— uutil the middle 
 of 18:6! On the 17th ^arch, 
 i87o, Mr. Longley moved for, and 
 (notwithstandinK the opposition of 
 of members of the Government) suc- 
 ceeded in procuring,a spaoial committee 
 on Public Printing {Debates 1875, p. 
 18). The committee was composed of 
 gentlemen of both political parties, em- 
 bracing, among others, Hon. A, Oay« 
 ton, the present Commissioner of Mines 
 and Works, and Mr. I. N. Mack, the 
 present Speaker of the House. After 
 nearly three weeks' investigation, the 
 committee unanimously repor^«»d [vide 
 JoumaUof House, 1875, App'x No. 
 '■il, p. 1) as follows: 
 
 Yoor Commit ee to whom was referrjd 
 the it-vestination of ttio method and cost 
 of public printing having, an far as seemed 
 practicable, complete 1 thtic labors, bes 
 leave to report as follows: 
 
 Wetind.from the tesilmoDy adduced, 
 that the Qovernmenr, have -given, since 
 the year eighteen hundred ana sixty- 
 seveD, to whom ihey pleased, without • 
 tender or confract, the printiog for the 
 sever il Departmeuts and Lrt«iaui;Dr<». 
 
 That8»id priming has boon enjoyefl a'- 
 most wholly by the proprietors ot the 
 following papers, viz,: 
 
 The "Acadian Recorder." 
 The "Morning Chrouicle." 
 The rcitizen." 
 
 That no accocm ob mbmoiusda 
 whatkvrk has bbbn kbpt bv thii skve- 
 
 KAL DbPAHTMBNTS WITH ANY OK SAID 
 PBOPRIBTOKS OF SAID MBWdPAPBitS OF 
 Wi.EK MIVEN DDT TO THBM. 
 
 W« tlnd that tUi Priuring for the Pro- 
 vincial Secretary's and Treasurer's De- 
 p.rimeoTji has been paid for by fpeoial 
 wan an 8 for that purp se, without any 
 aiicou it, b-ing rendered bv the printers 
 until tJhfl end of the year, while in ail 
 o'her Dipartaiant8th*8\ steal has been to 
 DRAW LUMPSUMS from tte Treasury 
 and pay it out for mi-tcelianeou» pu poses, 
 including public printing, as the Oepart- 
 meiits pleased. 
 
 rt/\MI»»^»I«*^ — 
 
 uuaWe.OWINQ TO THE PBUNIOIOIT3 
 SYSTEM BY WHICH THE PUBUO 
 
<^ 
 
 I 
 
 I 
 
 
 ^ 
 
 ! 
 
 \ 
 
 PRtNTiNO HAS BEKW PERFORMED, 
 tu arrt*« at tha «xiio( aoaoaoi pat<t or trm 
 Provinoa for that parpoM; bnt that tbA 
 ■om ia Terj la'Ke, aail h»^ not v>iri«<l tu 
 any Kr«>it ezt«ut tinoA 1867 In iba prioM 
 cbarfted. 
 
 Your Oommttt'e »<Hb to call attention 
 tu lb« fact 'lixt liiDi) Ui in ibeir rAsearunnii 
 th«7 flotl 820,682.fi0 hitx b< en v»U\ out the 
 loBt year fur triis cervioe, yet tbe Flnxn- 
 olal B*ta-D8 Uld upon the table of tbe 
 Hoaae sliow only a coHi of Sis Tbons«nd 
 Four Handled and SIxtren DoiUra 
 (S«,416 ) 
 
 WnllH raferrlnft to thn INFERIOR 
 QUALITY OF THK WOBK done in 
 some oaHea, we cannot but 8orioii«ly in» 
 Tita the HitenHnn nf the L"R s'atnrH lo 
 the E^0Kfi(10Ud PRICES CBARGBU 
 for tbix Horvtco a* aho'wn by the 'ahaiaied 
 atatrm'-nt bert-to Hnn»xed maik<:d A, 
 wbicb baa been cart-fully compiled: 
 
 (Bigiea) A LONG LEY, 
 
 W. A. PATTERSON, 
 
 J. M. MACK. 
 
 D. Mcl!URI>Y, 
 
 D. B WOODVVORTH, 
 
 A. PUTNAM, 
 
 A.GaVTON. 
 
 PnbUo 
 Docum«nti. 
 
 2,400 Copies. . 
 1,000 " 
 2,000 " 
 
 BOO " 
 
 200 " 
 4,000 " 
 6iiisues,2,400 ea 
 
 PRINTEKS 
 
 Clt. Pub Cum 
 
 Chki Annand 
 Cit. Tub. Com 
 
 2(9 0( 
 178 Ot 
 48 0< 
 36 00 
 332 00 
 966 00 
 
 o 
 
 Ml ooj 
 
 850(0 
 500 00 
 150 00 
 150 00 
 1200 00 
 1200 00 
 
 EoTelopM toT Kxaniiaatton 
 
 Paper", per M 
 
 l.Auti Kurius Oatb of Teacher* . 
 
 6. reacbeni' Certilluitte* 
 
 62>/i grg half-TMtrly Keport. 
 SI form-' QnettiODi A. B. C. 
 
 D K . 
 
 42 qrs. Standard examination 
 
 UnuteC. D 
 
 200 l>eputy kxamlnera 
 
 25 (ii'i. Hales Bxamincn I 
 25 " Candidates Uertf*. . . | 
 300 Joarnal Honse of As'bly . 
 
 5 00 
 
 600 
 
 4 CO 
 
 31 M 
 
 10 00 
 
 20 00 
 10 01 
 lOiO 
 
 93 0) ITS 00 
 
 30 00 
 3 CO 
 
 2000 
 
 1166 CO 
 
 8,000 C«p'eB K. a.. (4ibs«rle«).. 43^0 00 
 
 42 00 
 800 
 
 40 00 
 
 16% Oj 
 
 C8J6 00 
 
 This IS the most spcoifio tod crnihlog 
 convictioD of flwiudliog and robbery ever 
 reoorded against any budy of tnea. It 
 DOC only expo^C8 aud coDdcmog the 
 whole system, kividk the names oi the 
 swindlert), but gives particular acts ot 
 dishonesty, shoariig who committed 
 them, and the amount of disbooest 
 gains bagged in each case by the offead^ 
 ing parties. Here, Id the first serea 
 items, IVlessrs. Annand and Vail are 
 convicted in thete ifema ahne, cf 
 having cheated tbe Provincial Treasury, 
 of which they were the sworn custo- 
 dian.", out of OVER THREE THOUSAND 
 DOLLARS I ! In the last item— the 
 printing of the Revised Statutes — the 
 Messrs. Annand are convicted of hav- 
 ing dishonestly obiained over TWO 
 
 THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS I 
 
 Thus, in the printing of the very book 
 that provides tor the punishment of 
 criininais, these persoDS deliberately 
 committed an offcuco as base and bra* 
 zen aa any which its statutory force was 
 meant to prevent. These facts, it will 
 be seen, coDclusivQJy place this scandal 
 on an euti."ely different footing from 
 ordinary political charges. In the first 
 place, the charges are brought home to 
 the parties charged wiih remarkable 
 directness and concluiriveness. in tbe 
 next place.theconviciion isUNAMiMOUS, 
 by a Parliamentary Comn>iitee com» 
 posed of both parties, after full inyesti* 
 gation and enquiry. Ijastly, the charges 
 have never been attempted to be denied 
 even by the parties them'^elves. 
 
 It will be noticed, however, that the 
 committee were "unable, owing to the 
 pernicious system,'' to discover the full 
 amount that Messrs. Aunand, Vail, and 
 Blaekadar had bled the Province. They 
 found, however, that in 1874, although 
 the public returns only showed $6,416 
 as paid for public printing, that Messrs 
 Annand, Vail and Blaekadar had acs 
 tually received during that year no lea 
 than j626,582 I ! h is a ciuite reason 
 able suppofiiion that, considering the 
 departments from which they were 
 unable to obtain tmy ot full reports, 
 that there could not nave been less than 
 ^30,0UO bagged by these men during that 
 one year. 
 
 The average of overcharge is shown to 
 be at least 200 per cent., which would 
 make their dishonest gains twenty 
 
 THOUSAND DOLLARS PER ANSU.M ! 1 
 
 These practices having continued from 
 1807 to the middle of 1876, the people 
 of iNova iscotia can thus easily catuu* 
 
 rv' 
 
 .^ 
 
ih» reign of Aooand, Vail. 
 
 ^ , two defenoM hire been tt- 
 
 iM)>l«d to be made Tor lV.e80 soandalons 
 1JrM««diBK«>. The Jirnt i» that over- 
 tkuaifit were made oy Mcsars. Grant 
 OoiBDtOD and Cro.«skill before 18ft7, and 
 the teeond in that the (jlovf ruiuent re. 
 medied the evil by(iu IhTf')) chaoKini; 
 th« Byfetem. The &rat alloKaiioo, ev*>n 
 It true, could be no defenc, JDasmui-h 
 »$ DOoe of theae gcatlcuien were luoji 
 ■berB of the Govrniuent, as Aonand 
 ud Vail were. But it is a sinuuiur 
 tkct that, a'tcrhatinK po»8e»'sion oi all 
 oor public documcDis for eleven yeari*. 
 they have never bten able to sub«tanti» 
 ate this statement in any one instance. 
 The second statement is no detenco 
 at all. "^he thief who had stolen your 
 goods, might a.s well set up as a defuuce 
 that he had since changed his habits; or 
 some notorious corruptionist like Her« 
 man Cook or Major Walker, that he 
 had since voted for a rigid election law. 
 The imporUnt fact in the scandal 
 is that nearly two hundred thou- 
 sand dollars of Provincial money 
 has been traced to the pockets 
 ot the proprie'ors of the '' Chro- 
 nicle," "Ciiiaen" and 'Recorder," 
 which they have obtained by fraud, and 
 
 and no proceedings have ever been l»k'?n 
 by the Government to compel thom to 
 do Ko. The very men who are shouting 
 through their newspapers for actions to 
 be brought against parties who are only 
 snppoml t3 have soma few dollars of pub^ 
 lie money in their hands, do themselves 
 Ktaad convicted by the Journala of the 
 House 'f having nearly two hundred 
 thoiiiind dollars of public monev in 
 iluir pv)ckets, which they obtained by 
 praciice.H more nefarious and dishonest 
 thnn ibo.te of ihe thief, and which they 
 Ktill continue to retain. Why, we ask, has 
 not Mr. Hill caused "suits in Equity" to 
 be brought against Messrs. ^nnand. Vail 
 and Bl£.ckadar for the recovery of ihis 
 enormous sum? With a conviction 
 outstanding for over three years against 
 these men, Mr. Hill has not moved a 
 peg, but to-day avails himself of 
 the services of these very men, 
 and the dishonest shoutings of 
 taese very newspapers, in order to 
 jiccure his retention of power. If 
 the electors of Nova Scotia can resipeot. 
 and put confidence in such a man, or 
 puy any attention to the utterances of 
 siich newspapers, we will have to cons 
 fess to a mistaken estimate of their inx 
 tellii:eoce, their patriotism, or their 
 bouesty. 
 
FroB 1M7 to 1871, ih« Local Qor> 
 eranMDt oonfia«d iti effortB in the nut- 
 tor of ImiuiffntioD to ptyiog Tom 
 MorraoD *800 of public money p«r 
 annum, and Mr. Morrison's serrioes 
 oonsistod solely of the vigorous and 
 prompt ooUeotion of such salary. The 
 atory of how he came to be appointed 
 and the kind of " serrices" he ren« 
 dered^ in return is graphically told by 
 Mb. Howk in one of his letters pub^ 
 liahed iogSTl. Mr. Howe says - — 
 
 At my saggestioD, an emlgraBt agent 
 was proTidedfor by tbe Lefflslatnre witb 
 a sfliary ot $800 per annum. To this office 
 Mi. Thomas Morrison was appointed, and 
 it vaa prwamed ba would earn bis waoea. 
 He wa« removed by tbe Government 
 wblob Mucceeded mine, bat came bacic to 
 office after tbe first elections were run an- 
 der Oonfederation. He baa remained in 
 office up to the clone of last session, when, 
 for very shame sake, tbe Oovemment bad 
 to annouooM that the sinecure watt to be 
 abolishad. I cannot compute exactly tbe 
 HBOBBt of money which tbis person re- 
 neived for doing nothing, bat may set it 
 down In round numbers at about 84,000. 
 Under the new constitution be became an 
 officer of the Local Qoverument, and, for 
 the last two years, he bas earned his 
 aalary from Mesars. Annand and Wilkins 
 by abusing his old friend Howe. As a 
 public officer be was a failure; as an eml 
 grant agent, utterly Inefficient. Of all the 
 money he has received, he has never given 
 to the country $S0 worih of value. Yet 
 this Is one of the group of worthies, who 
 has been turning up hit eyes in holy 
 horror a', my fall r»>m grace, when I ac- 
 cepted a public oflice, the duties of which 
 I did know how to discharge. Thk ii ens 
 of thepenont sent, wUh lungs of Uatlur, to 
 roar at my heels round 'he County of Hants, 
 awl who stood over my prosirate body 
 in tbe School House at Kine Mile River, 
 iMllowlBg like a bull of Bashan, while I 
 . lay wrapped in my cloak. b<»rdly able to 
 'hold up my head. That night I took to mj/ 
 bad, and could not renew the canvass for 
 a nwnth. This old friend, whom I had 
 appointed to office, never bad the courtesy 
 orhu...Aaity tosay, "Howe, are yon ill; 
 ■ball we adjourn the meeting?" but stood, 
 with his pockets stuffed witu sovereigns, 
 foe Whioh he hitd given novalue, lecturing 
 me, who bed Just increased your resourcee 
 Vy 92,000,000, on disinterestedness and 
 pnbllo Tirtue. 
 
 There ia of course one thing to be 
 
 Hud in favor of tbis arragement 
 
 with Mr. Morrison ; that while we 
 
 oodoubtedly lost $800 per annum , our 
 
 »uu»t*i/ M^'t Via* 
 
 Jeoted to a moch 
 quite u oaeleia and 
 tioe. 
 
 Ia 1672 the "sy^Wi"um9>99i 
 more aggraTated fbm. In tMi' 
 it WM reaolrad, in order to 
 money in th< po^ets ot • ai 
 of needy rapiorten, to pretend to' th« 
 people of tliia Provinoe, thai th«y 
 were oarrying on a system of im^iiM" 
 tion. Under this pretenoe— for it wm 
 little dto as ire shall show — they iraw 
 from tbe Ti«i«ury of Nova Sootia for 
 the last six years as follows :— 
 1873 f3.aoa.6i 
 
 1873 7,772 J4 
 
 1874 8.4B9B8 
 
 1875 9.981.37 
 
 1876 8.«».80 
 
 ISn 3.370.38 
 
 Total »41,ail.86 
 
 Thus, during the last five years, aftor 
 our Crown lands had all been squao- 
 dertd, and n'hile our own people ware 
 leaving the Proviooe in thouaauds, 
 praotieally driven out by tbe dire de« 
 preaaion thikt overspread the country, 
 our Local Gloveioment were spending 
 tens of thousauds ot dollars in a scheme 
 of plunder, which they ironically called 
 "Immigration." Any sane and honest 
 man must admit the absur^ty of 
 any oonntr:^ in the condition Nova 
 Sootia baa. been in for the past five 
 years, whose own people were largely 
 unabls to procure labor, or make a 
 living, spending any money whatever 
 in indnoini; immigration. But what 
 makes this sham more ridiculous, and 
 removes the expenditure of this 
 $41,500 firom the category of '* blun» 
 ders" to that of '•crimes" ia; that the 
 money was :iot honestly spent, even in 
 that senaaleia scheme. 
 
 The two prinmpal efforts to iodvoa 
 imnugratioB which were oetennbly put 
 forth, WOT*, the Mnging of wme tweaty 
 famifies of l^imoh miners from Alaaoe. 
 to work in Ute Ffolou Cod Mines, aad 
 
 xL- ..*« ..«» i»«»t nf aAwm flMmtV -filfe 
 
 ars — 
 
» W »i> ' l« l <l! 
 
 3S»9 
 
 10 
 
 fluiaHes of loeUnden, nnmbering not 
 ■lore than \50 sod*, in Shelborne ead 
 Moaqoodoboit. The latter "effort" may 
 N tijcea as a sample of the whole 
 flchemc. The Fmancial Retoms ahew 
 that the direct charges tor the settle* 
 ment and support of these people down 
 to Dec. 31, 1877, (without couDting the 
 falaties of the two agents, or any other 
 mcUra^ cost) amounted to $11,14S.36 
 or ■74 88 per head I 
 
 The average cost per head for immi' 
 grants in the Provinoe of Ontario for 
 the past six years, dirtt^ and indirect 
 chargaboth included, was only S3. 94 
 The. average cost per head Tor immi^ 
 ^racts, under the eztravagaut scheme of 
 the Domioion Govemmenii for the past 
 fonr yea> ^, including aU charges, was 
 only S15.24! Here in Nova Sootia, 
 however, the direct charges alone have 
 been run up tu $74.28 per head. 
 
 It is almost needless to say that 
 
 nearly the whole of this 941, 500 found 
 
 ili way into the pooJcets of members 
 
 •nd supporters of the Local GoTem> 
 
 ment Thn cloven hoof of William 
 
 Annandis discovered iu this, as in every 
 
 other scandal that has disgraced 
 
 onr history for the past twenty years* 
 
 He, and his virtuous son, Charles An" 
 
 nand, " absorbed" $5,000 of it, bein^' 
 
 nearly one kiohth of the whole amount 
 
 Pr. Campbell of Inverness reoeived $2400 
 
 of it, which, with the $300 he reoeived 
 
 for his vote on the Speakership, made 
 
 up the prioe that the Grit party paid 
 
 for the support of that distingvlahed 
 
 statesman. Mr. Donald Arehibald 
 
 pocketed $1058.50, four hunrkd ool-* 
 
 liABS OF WHICH WAS A DIRECT OUT, 
 
 and— as might be expected— supported 
 Government the with the most »miable 
 eomplaoency and stupidity. His rela" 
 tives ill Musquodobott to the third and 
 fourth generatioo, have "absorbed" 
 some $4,000 in addition. Three or 
 four eminei^t Grits of Shelbome " ab« 
 
 '-^rl^*' n?A? §3.000 !RS?<>. Mssii'.rTnRt 
 
 Kobertson— anzioa<; to show*hiB fitcess 
 
 as a Grit poHtidao -bagged aboat 
 $1,000 of it, enjoying several plearare 
 trips at the public expense. In tm^ 
 this " scheme" was made to admirably 
 serve the purposes for which it was 
 designed— viz., ths filling of OrUpoek^U 
 and the purchase o/ dishonest politician^. 
 It is but little wonder that Mr: Hill 
 has not dared to mention this soaodaloos 
 swindling of the Treasury in his recently 
 published address. He does ^ndecd 
 boast— though why we cannot say— that 
 the Dominion Government ^s trana« 
 ferred Mr. William Annand t^its list ot 
 pensioners, and that henceforth the 
 Province will not be burdened with the 
 bapport of that veteran public pauper. 
 He claims credit for having paid 
 Dr. Campbell no more than was 
 necessary to buy him; but omits to 
 give any detail of the sham it was 
 necessary to perpetrate on this Pro* 
 vinoe in order to make a pretext for 
 giving *hat renegade any office what" 
 ever. Silence on this nwtter has certainly 
 been wise, for neither Mr. Hill, nor any 
 other man, can ever successfully d^end, 
 before an intelligent yeomanry, the in« 
 capacity, dishonesty, extravagance, and 
 oorruption, that has been the leading 
 features of the so-called "Immigration 
 scheme" of the Local Government of 
 Nova ifcotia. 
 
 From the period of the establiahiMn 
 of Responsible Government the. Ex- 
 ecutive Council of Nova Scotia always 
 contained two or three oomntry members. 
 These gentlemen, in attending meetiagi 
 of the Council in Halifax, were paid out 
 of the Treasury their actual travelling •» 
 penses, with $4 per day for time aotoaily 
 ■pent by them in sueh attendaoor^* 
 Tin in !B6?. no oomnl^l *aa aver 
 made by either party, that any fraud 
 
 K: 
 
>n 't 
 
 11 
 
 eyeroommittod by any gentleman oomah, was elected in 1874 in opite^to 
 
 tddinc meh a portion. The amouat to the Goyernment. He cum to Bm' 
 
 of tosh charge* paid for the ten years fax at the first of the sesrion •£ Vfli, 
 
 preceding 1867 waa as foUows : attended the Oppoaition caoooa, wd 
 
 1857 8 689 freely expressed his desire for the 
 
 l|W •■• ^ oyerthrow of the Goyernment. Be- 
 
 lisoi '.*.!"..*! !'.".'.!.'!".".'.'. 180 fore the end of the seasion he 
 
 ijn ^^ became a memberof that same Got- 
 
 ««'.'.*.'.■.■■■. V.V."."..'.*.!!i fl06 emment! Up to 31st Dec, 1877 
 
 ijg •;;; ^g^ about2 1-2 years) he had drawn ior 
 
 ItK.'.'.'.y.'. ".''.". "■'''''■' 836 travelling expense, $I,T1» being oyer 
 
 ,^jjj 1^ $700 per annum! In order to show 
 
 For nearly seyen'of'the" kbove ten the fraudulent obaracUsr of these pay- 
 wars, that awful "corruptionist," Dr. ments the Herald obtained an acj. 
 Tapper, was in power. They were the curate statemant-which can be yenfied 
 years before the completion of our by affidavit if feq«>t^-«J. '^* 
 Railways, and when travelling was number of times Mr. McKuuion 
 thna at leastdoubly as expensive as at attended meetings of Council, and the 
 prtneat. And during the whole of this amount of time he spent m such at- 
 time, there wore two, and sometimes tendances for the year 1876. During 
 four, members of Govemmeut residing that year, Mr. McKmnon had drawn 
 in the country. Yet, we see that the for travemng exoenses. no less than 
 ayerage oort per year was only $ ^5. f »«• The tol owing was shoin. to 
 In 18«7 the change of rulen brought haye been his "attendances duntg 
 ft change of policy, and even this neces* that year : 
 
 aarr practice was made a vehicle of " After the House was P'o«>ip^J" 
 W7 piwau\A> w«D uMm « ^p,ij Mr. McKinnon ramamsd a tow 
 
 robbery and corruption. * ot the ten <i ^^y, j^ the city, being princlpallyi«» 
 yem fbflowing 1867. the amount paid « ^ 'jL**r^r5?^l to Ha^lffS^iLJSS: 
 for these travelling expenses was as ,. ^rriviDK hare on the mb^nd renaiBed 
 fnllnwi- Ma Halifax tor 1S{ days. HeoaaManin 
 
 louowi. "on July l»t, and remalB«iai days, whm 
 
 H5 1 1 ai «' be tooi a trip up the coantry, Itissnp* 
 
 !*»• ^'iSi "posed to Truro or Kew Qlasgow-cer- 
 
 52? -I 5^1 •'talnlynot to Whycocoai»ah-and ra- 
 
 }Sk 1^ '« tumil on the 22nd, remaining Sidaya. 
 
 1^? luS^ •' He did not viiit the city attain until 
 
 IW? ,1S •« December 12th, when he retnrnad, and 
 
 Jg* *'878 •' remained IT days." 
 
 m6!!.'!.'.".'!.'.'.'.*.".'.''.".'.'"-i.80» Making a total of forty-eight days' 
 
 1W7 ^'^^ attendance, with three trips from Why* 
 
 $l!e{584 cooomagh to Halifax, and allowing two 
 
 Dving these years our railways were days eaoh way in travelling would make 
 completed, and every member of the uat rixty days. The cost of a return 
 Local Goverument had a free pass aver ticket, smpposing him to have come the 
 th«B> At no time were there more longest way and p«d full fare, which 
 three mcabera of Gh>yemm«nt he did not, would be only $16, or for 
 abroad, and yat wo aee the three trips i48. Allowing t4 
 that the ooet waa about THBDt per d*y for the sixty days-whlch 
 men AS iABO» AS F0» XHI TIN u all he waa entitied to— would be only 
 TBAM PEKIDWO 1867 ! 1240. which, added to the >48. -akes 
 
 The roftionfbr this eiiormonsiwsreaae only •288 to which he was honestly 
 can be found in in* ei^iSiMouS or ow»*.o ssumcu: j.--— , lu-u. ;-=--i •-— • 
 ca«ea. Mr. John McCinnon, of Whyoo* ber of Government received for travel- 
 
 •* 
 
4»J**- 
 
 12 
 
 ling tz peases alone, $«5T to which he 
 WIS not entitled ! 
 
 Mr. CoUN Campbell, of Weymouth, 
 WM elected in 1874 to support the Op« 
 position. Within a few months after 
 liifl election, he became a member of 
 Government. He has also, during the 
 last three years, although having 
 • free pass from Digby to Ha- 
 lifax, managed to draw from the 
 treasury of this Province not less 
 than $1,70S, for travelling ex* 
 penses! We leave it to the intelligent 
 people of Dijby County to consider, 
 whether or not, he was honestly entitled 
 to one au^cr of the money. For our 
 own part, we are confident that he toot 
 noL 
 
 Ma. Bob Robkhtson, of Barrin«ton, 
 was kicked out of a Departmental office 
 in 1871; he was "sore headed," and, 
 in order to retain his vote, was made a 
 member of Government, and his travel 
 fag expenses for the next three years 
 (as sh jwn by the Journals of the House) 
 smmut to $1,969 ! 
 
 While Mr. Hill has made no mention 
 of these exploits in his published ad- 
 dress to the electors of Nova Ssotia, 
 It will be seen that they form an 
 importai.1 chapter in the history 
 of his Government Mr. McKinnon 
 —notwithstanding the frauds of which 
 he has been convicted-is stUl a mem- 
 ber of Mr. Hill's Government, and one 
 ofthe Government candidates for the 
 County of Inverness. Mr. Hill has 
 therefore shouldered the whole burden 
 of his sin, and is prepared to defend, and 
 if oont -ued in power perpetuate . such 
 a system of rascality as wc have here 
 exposed. Hapily for the honor and 
 credit of Nova Scotia, there is not 
 much danger of either Mr. Hill or Mr. 
 McKinnon being allowed any further 
 opportunity for the practice of such a 
 aorstem of Government- 
 
 For many years the .^,_ 
 Nova Scotia was aaoast(«ied, ,,^ _ 
 Uin contingencies, and under oertam ff> 
 strictions, to advance money to the 
 various Counties of the Proviooe, oa 
 account of the Road and Bridge aer- 
 vice. The contingencies which generally 
 called for such action were either the 
 sdden sweeping away of some of the 
 bridges in the County afler the ordinary 
 road grant had been exhausted, or the 
 building of some large bridge; or the 
 openmg up of some road, requiring a 
 larger expenditure than could well be 
 taken from the County road grant of 
 one year. The restrictions required 
 that application for such advances 
 should always be made— with reasons 
 annexed— by the County members to 
 the Government, and receive the con* 
 currence of that body. 
 
 The practice was, anterior to 1867, 
 always jealously guarded, as it was open 
 to two serious objections, viz., it opened 
 a door for the members for a county for 
 one term to incur a debt, the amount of 
 which would be spent by their support- 
 ers, but which their successors in the 
 representation would have to pay, and 
 as the counties never paid any interest 
 for such advances, it was always to the 
 amount of such interest a direct loss to 
 the revenue. 
 
 For the tour years immediately pre* 
 ceding 1867— during which time Dr. 
 Tupper was in power— the amounts due 
 to the Province were as follows : 
 
 1863, 
 
 1«64, 
 1869, 
 1866, 
 
 «18,9Q4 
 1S,187 
 
 ssjon 
 
 31,928 
 
 A 
 
 This is a yearly average of $25,292. 
 As our railways were not then built, 
 the necessity for the prompt repair of 
 certain great roads, would make the 
 claims for these advaaoos much more 
 imperative and extensive than they 
 oould poasibly be in more noent 
 years. And doFiag ihsss vssrs 
 our reveoue Wis nearly two mil- 
 
r 
 
 .«;.*"■ 
 
 13 
 
 1 ^ 
 
 ~ tSN^ ;0r DOLLABS per annum, ud 
 tt* biliuiM to oor eredtt at the bank 
 MM aeMnn Iamb |han t200,000, so thbt 
 Wi Were then in a much better position 
 to loan 925,000 than we are now, with a 
 revenne of only S§60,000, and our bank 
 aocoant overdraion to the extent of at 
 least 9200,000. 
 
 It mlRht almost seem incredible, bat 
 18 nevertheless true, that our Local 
 Government, notwithstanding oar aU 
 tared circumstances, has gone on in« 
 creasing these advances from year to 
 year, until on the Ist March last there 
 was due fir^m the various counties no 
 less than 9129,262, or five times 
 
 THE AVERAGE AMOUNT which Dr. 
 
 Tupper's Government advanced in the 
 four years preceding 1867 ! In order to 
 show the details of this enormous ad- 
 vance, by a Province itrelf over 8200,000 
 in debt, we republish a return laid upon 
 the ta~!'» of the House last session, in 
 response to a request of Mr. Longley : 
 
 
 
 ^ ' "viminft! ahtarantmr nf thei« tfan- 
 
 aaeo J majr be seen from the following 
 ftets: 
 
 1st At the time these advaooea were 
 made, the Province was about 9200,060 
 in debt, toa« ittel/ paying^interat on 
 thai turn, and yet this 9130,000 is ad- 
 vanced to a ftw counties without a oent 
 of interest being paid, the Provluce 
 thus making a direct financial loss 
 of 96,500 per annum. 
 
 2nd. The amount is oat of all pro- 
 porUon to the amount the Coundes 
 could honestly require. If the "eztra« 
 ordmary" road services of the Provinee 
 could be met before 1867 by 925,000 per 
 year it is obvious that this advance of 
 9130,000 most have been for other than 
 legitimate purposes. 
 
 3rd. The advances are so large to 
 some counties as to render their collec" 
 tion practically impossible. For io" 
 stance, the County of Inverness, the 
 annual r6ad grant of which is only 
 $11,220, would have to be deprived of 
 any road grant whatever for three 
 years, in order to pay off its debt, a 
 proceeding at once unreasonable and 
 impossible. 
 
 4th. No good has resulted to the 
 Counties receiving these large advances, 
 since the money has been mostly squand* 
 ered. In fact much harm has been done 
 them by being thus plunged deeply in 
 debt, as the credit which they could 
 otherwise oomBMUid, in case of emer- 
 gency, is totally destroyed. 
 
 5th. These road advances, like everyx 
 thing else that the Local Government 
 could control, have unmistakably been 
 made an engine of robbery and ooi<t 
 raption. The enormous advanoes to 
 Inverness were made immediately af^ 
 the purchase of Dr. Campbell «|d John 
 MeKinnon by the GovemnUnt; the 
 advances to Victoria, shortly after the 
 purchase of MeCurdy; while the debts 
 of Cape Breton and Goysborongh were 
 evidently rolled on them in order to boy 
 support for Messrs. WhRe and Weeks, 
 diese >"•"- irfih. MoKisnoc sf Isvs!^ 
 nesa, being aU members of the Gtovem* 
 ment What iswOTse, the moaey was, 
 
 i, 
 
 :Av 
 
14 
 
 if 
 
 ii 
 
 t 
 
 Id r^'aoj CUM, adTftooed, simply to pro* 
 Viuc the member$, or lomec/ their mer^ 
 eontile $upporter*, a mtan» for eoOect- 
 mg their dtbtt. Coaunisaiona w^re 
 given out in districts where the member 
 (a merchant) did business ; when the 
 work was done, the Commissioner (a 
 debtor) brings the Commission to the 
 member, and takes a receipt on ac- 
 ooant: the member puts the order in 
 his safe, which is the same to him as so 
 much money collected from men who 
 could not otherwise have paid him! ' 
 This system has been going on with 
 marked success and with the full know 
 ledge of the Government in several 
 counties for several years. And it is to 
 this system that we owe in a large 
 measure the enormous debts which 
 several of the counties have left, to 
 them, as a parting legacy, by men who 
 have lately been their representatives. 
 It is but little wonder that Mr. Hill 
 has'passed over *his proof, not only of 
 his incapacity, but of his dishonesty, 
 without a word. His silence will not, 
 however, prevent the people of Nova 
 Sootia from expressing their opinion of 
 this and his numerous other transgres- 
 bions, at the approaching election. 
 
 IB WBTKBN COUNTESS aA.1 I.- 
 WAT ■WIITDL.K. 
 
 Notbioc in the history of Mr. Hill's 
 POtf aod gyvemment shows their inca- 
 iwca%^j|ireni more strikingly tlian 
 iheinl^lRwtjr policy, and nothing shows 
 (befar«oWt^d^on^ty in a more marked 
 degTM than the maoner in which they 
 have oarried out tlwt policy. The his' 
 to^ of thwoounty-Hffld as far as wc 
 kaow of nog>th«r Bntiii)i eolony— oon> 
 taiBB anythinc m^ .limikoeful than 
 the Wettm C^aotiM ^ulway swindle. 
 ISke edf^mi ditngard of kw by the 
 GortnnMDt, whiah enabled the swindle 
 
 to be perpetrated,*the enormous amooot 
 of money swi nd led out of the Provinee 
 and the oounties of Digby and Yar 
 month by the] transaction, and the cona 
 tinned friendship and logToUiog be- 
 tween the Glovemment and the virind> 
 lers, since the discovery of the fraudst 
 all serve to demonstrate beyond shadow 
 of doubt the deep and disgraceful rasa 
 cality of Mr. Hill and his government' 
 The County of Yarmouth having 
 determined to be conaeoted by railway 
 with the rest of the Province, made 
 such provision for assisting the scheme 
 as should entitle it to the greatest 8ym» 
 pathy and respect; In addition to pro- 
 viding the rii;ht of way free by the 
 county, the town of Yarmouth sub- 
 scribed S 100,000 to the underuking. 
 The County of Digby also agreed to 
 assess itself fox the right of way. The 
 Province of Nova Sootia agreed to con- 
 tribute, by way of subsidies, as follows : 
 
 Ist. Gash sabsidy out of the 
 pockets of the people of 
 Nov» Sootia $tiiiO,000 
 
 3nd- 160,000 acres of the lands of 
 the people of Mova Scetla, 
 worth 150,000 
 
 3rd. OoTernmeat interest In the 
 Bailway from Windsor Junc- 
 tion to Windsor (32 miles), 
 %orth. 80O.00O 
 
 Total $1,630,000 
 
 In June, 1874, a company engaged 
 
 for these simple considerations to build 
 
 this road, and have the same finished 
 
 May, 1877. Their agreement gave 
 
 them the railway to Windsor whenever 
 
 they asked for it, the Crown Lands 
 
 whenever they asked for it, and thesub* 
 
 sidy as follows: 
 
 "So soon aa it shall be made to v>pear 
 on a certificate from an Engineer appoint- 
 ed by the Oorernment, that at least 
 >40,000 shall have been b»na fide expended 
 in actual oziMnditare on the aaid railway, 
 the aaid Government of Nova Sootia wiU 
 pay to tbe aaid parties of the aeooad j^ut 
 or their aaaigna the aum of 930,000 m a 
 Dortioa of anoh anbaidy or aid, and ao in 
 like mannei fnna time to tiaao, pn> ra 
 until the whole of the aaid roa4 or railway 
 ahall ba fully o om pla t ad, and la efltaiaBt 
 
 nnmration. «rn*n tha bfilssos of SSSli *M 
 
 of eif^t thonsaBd duflan par mile foe tha 
 aaid railways, and .o more aball be paid 
 to the aaid i.artiaa." 
 
 ^3^|k_> 
 
/ 
 
 k_ 
 
 V 
 
 15 . , 
 
 ,„d ««a «JW.nU, l^r^ foj^2 CS Crex-M. P. P, with oh«. 
 r«ioirem.ot. but they were not ht^ i^ «eii.,e.pect. .ppointed bim- 
 
 .iKmgbfor OUT ?^'«"^^,^^ ii^„J ^Stf ch.im«. An invsug*txon wm 
 of p^ing the subndy, « the l-w * .^ ^ discovered : 
 
 Oie oontnwt pUinly required, in the neio. ^^^ ^^^^ ^^ ^„ „oth.lf built, 
 proportion of $1.00 for etery t2.00 ^,^^^ „^^ ^ ^je of the ro.d wm 
 
 La >W* expended by the co^npany o^ J^ 
 
 their own money, they went on paying ^^ ^^^ ^^^^ company or the oon- 
 out the Buhaidy practioally as they were ^^ ^^^^^^ ^,„ ^^xd^g the 
 
 i^edforit. The Opposition protested ^^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^ ^^^^ ,,^er and . 
 
 but the Government went on just tne ^^^^^ ^i^.^ ^iiey had received from the 
 aame. ^ .„, ,t^n,* Government and the Counties of ¥«• 
 
 InDeeember, 1876. the company stop« Touth and Digby. , ^,. 
 
 pedwork. People asked the reason ™o«^ ^hat two sections of the "road" 
 S at the beginning of the session ot ^^^^ j.^^j^ ^j^^ ^han heap, of 
 
 1877, the Government put the Icllowing ^^^^^ . ^^^ 
 
 stotementinty/overnor's Speech: 5th. That the work had not been 
 
 «h. The wofc/ofthe We'tern Counties ^^ ^^^ly suspended for a ^w week. 
 
 ^'"f^Sm^"^ wdTtumn Sxd alSiouK^ of inclement weather," but had stopped 
 
 SiSJS7£.' "^.^ro^fS Wuse the funds (the Govemmjt 
 »uttWD«D Fo»A»^jr™ o^^^^^^ exhausted. That ttw 
 
 rH'SrI"«"saM^»dcm.Mi forward ~^,,t ^ new this, and the st^ 
 to oompletioo. ment put into the Governor's Sp««* 
 
 Further on in the session, the Gov- deliberate falsehood, 
 
 emment laid on the Uble of the House wa^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^.^^ ^^^ ^^^^^ 
 ;he following interesting account: ^^^ poured in on the committee so 
 
 • ^dv«noea TTMtem Ctowntiea Railway, ^^^^helmingly, that the Qoivemment 
 " me. , „ membersof the committee refused to 
 
 Febru«ry2. ^oOwh^per or»er ^ ^^^^ f^^her evidence, and Mr. 
 
 .. 23. «'^n«hV;;....' 28*0000 D^^McDonald. whohad for newly* 
 M^,H,I'- " •• ••::::■■: &wi6o ^tole session 6«e»«/it«*ry««ff/^«J«^. 
 
 ^''"^- ■ •• " : ^ifs^S packed up his traps and started for 
 
 Jnn.l2. ;: :: ;; ^iS^gS home, «««^'«.aimflr a report. 
 
 July 3< .. ., ; • ■ ; ... 9,154 00 0,-. is gome of the evidanoe pwn •» 
 
 Au(ni»t2. „ „ •••■;.. 13,500 00 Here IS some »i 1. 
 ;; 7.- .. .. '.;■...... lo.osooo ^ character of the road. 
 
 |tel6. V. ■;.•.•.■.••.•.•.•. \ffi^ Had worked o^ secUon^*,^^.„<^^ 
 Not. 4. „ „ 8,022 00 wbioh case he had SMii emuii^j^j^^ 
 
 ^"k •' " : 10*38 00 f•e«in>tl«^V«ltoSf SSmtti JwwiA 
 
 Deer. 4. th, height of 3 of 4 »« «»™ '^r ^ys 
 
 1871- ,^ „„^, .. 14,713 00 irirecompoMdof bruah a»d 10« xn» 
 
 The pub lie mind began to wak.up S^;^;|^^^«^-^*1;S ,-S^ 
 when Im Utile bill was P^^^' "; VS^^^^ ^ 
 veaUng the fact that THE ^VH0L» atm. «<wm*P«I. 
 
 S^^emUth;GoTemme»t,Mr. »r.tii.«iWrt—t.o—.iP-- 
 
 aatii,^^ajiii'll liWilMlwuai 
 
> 
 
 V" 
 
 .^ipiMJIilJ, I 
 
 16 
 
 mw iii « i . i » » 
 
 k 
 
 hi 
 
 \\ 
 
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 thty were built of loge and brush, 
 jtntm of four embankti^enta thus buiU. 
 Xtara WVN MTtral » handrad feet lowTi 
 aad lb* third p*rt of thara w«r« looS' 
 Ob* ia particular wat SOO feet long and 
 faox fMt deep, and almost entirely built 
 «f locil Tbe croand here was bard, and 
 tatTery Utile iwampy Tbe embank 
 saat eoald hare been made of earth 
 TbeambankiBenta on section 4 were aleo 
 OB feard ground. EMBANUceNT hbrb 200 
 
 Aim MO »«FT IiOIlO, AND Flva FBBT IK 
 
 x>BrrH, wrra ifOT mobs than six iNCHce 
 ov KABTB OM TOP. They were then up to 
 tonnation level. 
 
 J. ■. XYANB. 
 
 J. £. ETana was a railway contractor 
 on Motions 1 and 2. Went OTsr tbe line 
 with McNeb and one or two others: 
 
 Kieed the embankment at Stockall 
 Mity. The embankment was 3 feet 
 kieh. and nearly all brush aatd logs. 
 MolTab asked him if that w :B the way be 
 ballt his work. Said, no, be was not in 
 the ring. 
 
 FINUIY MCDONALD. 
 
 Haye worked on other railways, but 
 ■erer saw brosb a"d logs used in 8imllar 
 places. The land, 80 far as I worked on 
 it had a very hard strong bottom. Bm- 
 ..bankment was to 7 feet high. Brush was 
 Mled np so high that we could scarcely 
 Siatlaguisb from one cross bead io another. 
 ItUaU covered np All tbe embank* 
 aaats I worked on in section 4 had brush 
 Ib tham. Bave heard of an embankment 
 on section 3 taking firei Tbe one at 
 Stookall shanty. 
 
 rBIIilF MOLSOD 
 
 Was foreman on W. C. Bailway on sec- 
 tions 3, i and 6, On section 4 was fore 
 man on abont a mile. Built 3 eml> ^nka 
 BMBta on bard soil, on rock tumetiuicr 
 The eMbaokmen^s were i,2G0, 1,100, and 
 400 fset leng- The one 1,2C0 feet ioog was 
 ftam 12 to 3 feet deep: about 7 feet of 
 krnah was pnt in i: I was ordered to do 
 ao by the walking boss. Schurman. Saw 
 Pattrell there; be toldfme to pnt the 
 brash in. I told Patrell and Schurman 
 it was not light to put it in. In the one 
 1400 feat long there were 2 feet of brush 
 to 3 feet of earth. Fnttrell told me to pnt 
 it in. No brush in the one 800 feet long. 
 One near the one 1.200 feet embankmeiit 
 OM «o Juu-d a bottom we could not drive a stakt in 
 was bailt in tha same way. 
 
 AMOOS MCLIOD 
 
 Was foreman on sec. 4 from 1st. August, 
 •74. Worked at next cutting to last wit- 
 ■MS. I built three embankments— ona on 
 Middling toft ground, the other two on 
 katd land— one was 700 feet long, and one 
 800. The 700 feet one was 5 or 6 feet on the 
 lower side. Put in logs. . Pnt them in on 
 Puttrell's order. He "spoke hard Against 
 ms" fi>r not putting them in. In the 800 
 faat ona, put iu brush. The 700 feet one 
 was on very bard ground; the 000 feet one 
 •B a meadow, orei which I have driven 
 
 
 t\im 
 
 ambankBienu and raised in tha cuttings. 
 Was ordered to do so by walking boss 
 ScbBrmaa. Tbit would greatly r«Moe 
 
 the work. A. gasg of men wara ohoppiBK 
 out the road, aad pnttlag the ohopfABg 
 into tha oebtra of the road for the em' 
 bankment on bard ground. I stand aix 
 feet, and when I was on one aid* of the 
 bnuh baap I could not ae* a man oa tb* 
 other. 
 
 JAHI8 G. FRA8IB, C. B., 
 
 who visited the embankments, and 
 opened them in the spring of 1877, gave 
 the following sworn sutement of what 
 be found: 
 
 "I found an accumulation of brnab, 
 stumps and log4, with only abont a foot 
 . of earth on top. There was a subsidence 
 of some 18 incbf s over a length of ISO 
 feet. The logs were laid promiscuonaiy. 
 * ^ * I opened tbe embankment at 
 Little Lake in four places. The toil la 
 very bard; no swamp whatever. Ifoand 
 a promiscuous assortment of logs, stumps, 
 brash and earth. Tbe logs are decaying 
 very fast, and the road sinking rapidly. 
 There was ten feet that had not more 
 than 4 inches of earth on top of tbe rub- 
 bish. I inever saw the like before. No . 
 train should ever be sent over such a 
 place. * * * Iu two placea I found 
 logs and. btufh within 2 fiMt of tbe top. 
 The logs were decaying, and tbe road 
 sinking; tbe rails were "kinked"; tbe 
 banks had given way, so that tbe sleepen 
 bad nothing to rest on. • • • There 
 was no need of any brush in anj/ of tbe 
 places I visited." 
 
 HUOH MCDONALD. 
 
 one of the most upright men, and beat 
 
 informed rail way contraotors in the Pro<* 
 
 vinoe who was with Mr. Fraser when 
 
 the embankments were opened, in his 
 
 sworn testimony said : 
 
 "I am a contractor, and k now bow rail- 
 ways should be built. We mad* a 
 thorough test o( all the embankmeaU 
 mentioned, I am interested in the road, 
 at>d my evidence is prejudicial to myself. 
 The McLeods in their statements, in re- 
 gard to the soil, told the troib. To the 
 best of my knowledge, Lowe, Ft Mo- 
 Donald and Walker told only tha trntbj 
 Tudir statements were not ezaggerat«d aa 
 far as those embankments we opened. In 
 some cases we found tbe embankments 
 worse than they described. From myoaz*- 
 ful inspection of tbe road, 1 am in a posi 
 tion to state moat poeitively that any wit~ 
 nees that stated these embankments wer* 
 well built, stated wh<tt was not true. I 
 swear so most positively, aad can prove it 
 at any time. Tbe test we bav* applied i* tbe 
 only sura way of dlaooToiing the tra* oba- 
 raoter of the road. I bave been employed 
 ou tbe road sine* Octobor, 1873, supwln- 
 tsadiss iS> nn^tractioa. I bav* b**B 
 employed on other roads In oonatraotion. 
 I never saw such erabaakmeata oa wiy 
 otbes road. I cosiider tii*m simply dis« 
 
17 
 
 Kracefol. I would not hBT« »h» ii»-n« M 
 A contract )r of buildluK moU embsnk- 
 menis- 
 
 There wrs Btill another dishonest trick 
 in the construction of this "roaJ" ex- 
 posed by the witnesses ox4mined before 
 the oommittce. It was proved that in 
 many oases, after the surveys had been 
 approved by the Government Engineer, 
 
 THB GRADES WERB CHANQED, 80 as to 
 
 make the work materially less, and i le 
 "road," if possible, sti'l more worthless. 
 This was proved by Hugh McDonald, 
 and other witnesses, and was admitted 
 bySuhurman, in his cross examiuation. 
 
 He said - 
 
 " r remember lowerinn tb*» fl ' 1 and raioinK 
 the cu'tioK on »«»otoii 4 1 lud hd order 
 from Stmael RvorHon, ad Frank K Ham. 
 Ih^'y t'>(d nie verbally to do 8). Tiii-" Ji^ 
 •11 I retntmber being ilone. I won't swear 
 thi»f. wan ihi only cuttirg that «> as 
 "raised." Tho Krude was cbanKed 3 inches 
 in e»ch 100 feet." 
 
 It was further proved that the <rossest 
 frauds had been practised on tlie Pro-' 
 vinoe— no doubt with the consent ot the 
 Government— in the payment of the 
 subsidy. 
 
 GEO. S. CDTTEN 
 
 in bis evidence said : 
 
 Have received on Section 10 STltOOO. 
 Contracted for $94,000 lump sum, with 
 $8,000 extras. On aection 9 have received 
 19,600. Oar estimat' s on Heoiioo 10 were 
 l>oiii Sa.cOO to $12,000 por month. By 
 ihejoumalt qf the Houte of • 876 the estimate* (^ 
 exp«nditure$}on the lint show that the Oovern- 
 ment paid the aubiidy on an expenditure of 
 %Al, «0» for work fo- which I received $9 600, 
 end when the work loas flnithed/or which I got 
 $9,600 the OJVKKNMENT HAD PAID OS 
 
 $76,600 ! I The company rei»ined out 
 of all $1,800 for work which the? said I 
 bad not done, bat on whirh tbey have ex" 
 pended nott$100 On 'section 10, on c ti* 
 teate 12. /or workf r which I TectivtdJ,n,m 
 the Government paid on an txpendttur* qT 
 
 'ins WBBTB«WC«IJWTI«» Ui^tf. 
 WAT ■WINOl.B. 
 
 aSCOND ABTIOLB. 
 
 The evidence given before the com* 
 mittee completely estabhs'hed the sotn- 
 dalotu character of the work already 
 ^aa» m the mA. Evwjr ««tm^or 
 
 wtks examined, and the cost of tbj road 
 to the Builders wa« proved to have 
 been not more than $885,000. It was 
 shown that for this amount of wore 
 they had drawn from the Province in 
 cash $679,000; from the sale or mortgage 
 of the Crown Lands granted them by the 
 Province $75,00) ; from the Township 
 of Yarmouth $100,000 ; an4 fifWB mort- 
 gaee bords on the road thu» eonsinued 
 $75,300 ; making a total of $9*9 ,300. 
 drawn directly and indirectly from the 
 people of this Province for work which 
 only'cost $885,000, AND which IS to- 
 day UTTTSRLY WORTHLESS 1 In addi-« 
 tion to this, the counties of Yarmouth, 
 Digby and Aunapolis were compelled to 
 assess themselves and pay foi- th-i right 
 of way and fencing of a road which will 
 never be finished, and which has been 
 rendered impossible ot construction by 
 the criminal misconduct of the Govern- 
 ment. 
 
 The Report of the Engi-^eer {itide 
 AmmhlyJournahlSn,) ?'aoW8 that at 
 the time the work stopped there was 
 $700,000 worth of work remaining to 
 be done. To this must, however, be 
 added the cost of re cbnatructing sec- 
 tions 4 and 5, say »65,000 ; and the 
 deterioration of the road since Decem- 
 ber 1876, which competent engineers 
 tell us will not be less than 20 per cent, 
 or $175 000, making the total amount 
 required to fioish the road $»4O,00O | 
 No Company in the worli can ever raise 
 this money for the finishing of this 
 road, without Government assistance, 
 and if Mr. Hill remains in power, and 
 carries out the Railway Schemes to 
 which he is pledgtd. the Province of 
 Nova Scotia will neither have money 
 nor credit to assist the Western Coun 
 ties Railway or any other scheme. 
 
 Mr. Plunkett spent the summer of 
 1877, trying to raise money with the 
 eredit of the Province to assist him, 
 AiTD FAILSD- He has spent all the 
 summer of 1878 trying to raiw monej, 
 MMted with tbeoredit ot tbeDooiaiM 
 
UK 
 
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 otiM of l^riS99(h »• d 
 
 7 k»^ been prindpaliy^prtxJno d 
 
 *wi«)ioo of (aw by th* QororD'< 
 
 vnh$ pfjf^enfc. of tU« Bubdi'^r. 
 
 ;|» otlik'^tlii^/ i^ AoUot 1371,' 
 
 4 no Mion M 1^ than h° MtlB^iintoriljr 
 
 I^W'ti** Rovwrn r' In O an -il th^tc 
 
 i^^ti«fa'«n8ih4Bi»c nhitll hs*t» iona. 
 
 ;pfa(l«rt t>i»tiiii ''f fKiythoa^an-l 
 
 )a •rtu 1 'Spe dram ontlia^M•l 
 
 ;«>a tn Im btt'lt by tb<«in MaK»|l 
 
 _,-l for ilia Governor In Conneil, m 
 
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