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 The MANiTOiJAX. 
 
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 "Next year I will be very good. 
 
 In fact a little lamb ; 
 I'll never cli^nb the closet shelf 
 
 To help myself to jim. 
 
 I won't drive nails into the wall, 
 
 Or throw the rude brick-bat 
 To dislocate the vertebnu 
 
 Of any neighbor's cat. 
 
 I will not smoke my fathei's pipe 
 
 When ho is not around ; 
 I won't annex the can unto 
 
 The caudal of the hound ; 
 
 But I will be so very good, 
 That when to school I'm sent, 
 
 I will not hookey play to steal 
 Beneath the circus tent." 
 
 Just hear the butclier toot his merry 
 horn, while all the world with purest rap- 
 ture listens, and epicures go wild for very 
 joy to hear the butcher thus proclaim him- 
 self : 
 
 "I will not sell a tenderloin 
 Cut near the crump'ed horn ; 
 
 I will not sell a hammered ste^k 
 Ac even or at noon ; 
 
 I will not sell an ancient chop 
 
 At any time for gold ; 
 And no spring chicken of mine shall be 
 
 More than ten winter's old."' 
 [R. K. Mdnkittrick in Once a Witk. \ 
 
 Manitoba TJ^iPty Years Jlgo. 
 
 WE propose in future to devote a 
 space once a month to remin- 
 iscences of a (piarter of a cen- 
 tury ago, when, as our readers are aware, 
 Manitoba was Assiniboia, and Assiniboia 
 was comprised ia a circle, d'awn from 
 Fort Garry, of a radius of fifty miles. 
 The Council of A.ssiiiil)oia was its Legis- 
 lative Assembly, its Government, and its 
 Executive, and the case whicii is mention- 
 ed in the following minutes of Council, 
 the power of release from sentence of 
 death, was assumed and carried out. 
 Without, further comment we will give a 
 specimen of how th's Government was 
 conducted at the tim^ wn mention in the 
 fo lowing minu 65 of a mer-ting of the 
 Governor and Council of Assiniboia, lield 
 on the 13ih day of March, 18G2, at which 
 were present the under-mentioned Ooun- 
 ciilors, viz.: William McTavish, E-q., 
 
 Governor of Assiniboia, President ; tlie 
 Kiglit Rev. Lord Biihop of Rupert's 
 Lnnd, Roljert McBeth, Esq.; Henry 
 Fish ;r, Esq., Francois Bruneau, E-q., 
 Salomon Amlin, Esq, Pascal Breland, 
 Esq., John Likster, K>q , Thomas Sin- 
 clair, Esq. The Pre-ident and these 
 Councillors have all pis.sed away, and it 
 will be interesting to thn present gene'-a- 
 tion to learn in how simple a manner 
 matters of moment were di.sposed of. 
 The record goes on to say : 
 
 "After the Minutes of the last nioeting 
 of Council had been read and adopted, 
 Petiiions were road praying for the re- 
 lease of Paniette Cliartras froii goal. 
 The total number of signatures was 405. 
 
 It was moved by the Lotd iJishop of 
 Ruperr's Land and seconded by Mr. John 
 nkster, that the prisoner Paulette Char- 
 ras shall be liberated from prison at the 
 expiration of six month.s, counting from 
 the day of his committal to prison. Car- 
 ried unanimously. 
 
 A petition was presented from August 
 Schubert praying the Council to grait 
 him compensation for the loss of property 
 caused by liotous Indians. The petition 
 was no'u granted. 
 
 A. petition was laid bftfore the Ciuncil 
 from Ryar Olson and Har-Kuske VVeyah 
 Denig or Olsen, praying the Council to 
 appoint guardians over the minor child- 
 ren of the late Edwin Thompson Denig. 
 The Council refused to act, not having 
 surti. ient information to act upon. 
 
 The following letter from Mr. James 
 Ross was then read : 
 
 Willi \M McTavisii, Esquire, Governor 
 of Assiniboia and President of the 
 Council : 
 
 Honored Sir — My experience has 
 convinced me that an improvement could 
 be effected on our present mode of paying 
 the constables, and with this conviction, I 
 beg to submit a proposition for the con- 
 sideration of the Council at its next ses- 
 sion. 
 
 You are aware that, under the present 
 arrangement, they receive their annual 
 a'lowar.co only at the end of each year of 
 service — a system which, no doubt, frees 
 the paymaster from trouble and facilitHtes 
 accoi'at-keeping, but which, assuredly, en- 
 tails hardship on some of the men. Most 
 
 of the coi 
 means ; th 
 to meet ci 
 can theref 
 a wliole 
 time 
 
 My pi'o 
 the const i 
 would gi\ 
 ings at s 
 unnecessa 
 account 
 would bd 
 ing to th 
 during t 
 enjoying 
 is to be 1 
 though w 
 them onl 
 them hav 
 ceiving a 
 sides bein 
 those wh 
 standing 
 only at tli 
 consequei 
 then, altli 
 quite as i 
 This ii 
 continue, 
 dilemma 
 or refuse 
 need' ess 
 the lattei 
 hard^.iip. 
 On ev 
 think it 
 were pai( 
 submit tl 
 Council 1 
 If it b 
 gest that 
 the 1st. 
 begin at 
 present, 
 
 Your 
 
 Red Ri 
 
 It wn 
 and sec( 
 the CO' 
 
 paid 
 
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 of the constables are uiPii of very limited 
 means; they require all their honest gains 
 to meet current household expenses, and 
 can therefore, ill afford to render service 
 a whole year wit, ■•out pay during the 
 
 tilDP 
 
 My proposition is, that, for the future, 
 the constables be paid off quarterly. This 
 would give them tlie benefit of their earn- 
 ings at short intervals ; it would render 
 unnecessary their running into debt on 
 account of their expected pay, and it 
 would bd more gratifying and encourag- 
 ing to them, as they would, at all times 
 during the year, feel that they were 
 enjoying the fruits of their labor. It 
 is to be remembered, moreover, that, al 
 though we have been professing to pay 
 them only at the year's end, some of 
 them have, in fact, been repeatedly re- 
 ceiving advances on account, which, be 
 sides being irregular, operates unfairly for 
 those who get nothing. Those under- 
 standing that their pay is not obtainable 
 only at the year's end, do not ask for, and 
 consequently do not get anything until 
 then, although they may require advances 
 quite as much as those who receive them. 
 
 This irregular system, if allowed to 
 continue, will inevitably put us in this 
 dilemma -ei, her to make advances to all, 
 (tr refuse all. The former would occasion 
 needless trouble and account-keeping — 
 the latter would in some cases entail real 
 hard s^^ .lip. 
 
 On every CDnsideration, therefore, I 
 think it would be better if the constables 
 were paid ofl'ijuarterly and I respectfully 
 sul)mitthe proposition to your Honorable 
 Council for consideration. 
 
 If it be adopted, [ would further sug 
 gest that as the fiscal year comiuenced on 
 the 1st. June, the constable year should 
 begin at the same date, instead of as at 
 present, on the 1st September. 
 I remain, 8ir, 
 
 Your humble and obedient servant, 
 
 Jamks Ross, 
 
 Sherif. 
 Red River Settkment, 
 
 March 11th, 1862. 
 
 It was moved by Mr. Robert McBeth 
 and seconded by Mr. John Inkster, That 
 the CO' it., ies shall, for the future, be 
 paid lu..fye -Iv C ried unanimously 
 
 It was moved by the Bishop of Ru- 
 pert's Lxnd and seconded by John Ink- 
 ster, Tliat William McTavish, E-q., 
 Francois Bruneau, Esq., and Thomas Sin- 
 clair, Esq , be appointed a committee to 
 collect and arrange th'i Local Jiiwsof the 
 Di-strict of Assiniboia. Carri.^d unanim 
 ously." 
 
 I To be Continued.) 
 
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