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TORONTO : rRlNTKD BY WARWICK & SONS, 68 AND 70 FRONT STREKT WKST. 1891. SPEECH OF TI^iJ HON. E. HAECOURT, TKKASUKKIt OK THE PROVINX'E OF ONTARIO, DELIVERED ON THE 24th MARCH, 1891, IN TIIK LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OE ONTARIO, ON MOVING THE HOUSE INTO COMMITTEE OF SUPPLY. TORONTO : PRINTED BY WARWICK & SONS, 68 AND 70 FRONT STREET WEST. 1891. ri FINANCIAL STATEMENT OP THR HOJNT- E,. :Ei.A.RCOTJE»T Legislative Assembly, Toronto, Tuesday, L>4th March, 1891. Mr. Speaker,— In compliance with long established usage, I desire" before making the usual motion that you do now leave the chair, and that the House may resolve itself into Committee of Supply, tJ make some observations on the present tinancial position of our- Province. These observations, Sir, will not be lengthy, since the subjects to which I am about to address myself have beerc thoroughly discussed in this House, in the press of the Province^ and at public gatherings. Fullest information concerning everyl thing relating to our finances is within the reach of everyone. The public accounts for the year jnst closed and the estimates for the ' current year are in our hands, and therefore a long statement would seem superfluous. In the Dominion Parliament or in England,, where tariffs are largely discussed and the question of ways and means is one of all-absorbing interest, a long statement is almost. 4 FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF unavoidable, and at the same time is looked for each recurring year with keen expectancy. With powers of taxation reduced to a mini- mum, with sources of revenue well defined, several of them admitting of but slight variation, our position is altogether different, and it becomes a matter of no little difficulty to discuss year by year in an interesting way a subject so well and so generally understood. Receipts, 18!)0, Subsidy $1,116,872 80 Specific grant Interest on caviital held, and debts due by the Dominion to Ontario Interest on Investments ^rown Lands Department : — Crown Lands Railway Lands Clergy Lands , CoOimon School Lands Grammar School Lands Rent re .Lands In Suspense re Lands . . Woods and Forests .... Casual Fees Refunds . Algoma Taxes Law Stamps Licenses Education Department. JPuhlic Institutions' Revenue : — Toronto Lunatic Asylum . London " Hamilton " Kingston " Orillia Reformatory for Females Boys.... Central Prison Deaf and Dumb Institute 80,000 00 $1,196,872 80 300,000 00 63,596 94 74,031 78 11,562 56 6,037 88 11,758 24 1,538 27 130 00 80,512 40 916,155 67 1,193 18 523 11 36,097 61 14,893 74 9,124 04 3,584 08 1,659 08 3,698 52 823 73 36,664 52 128 11 363,596 94 1,103,443 0!» 2,093 10 90,348 'Xi 312,007 55 36,661 61 105,663 43 THE HON. R. HARCOURT. gyear mini- litting and it • in an t6,872 80 [)3,596 94 103,443 0'.> 2,093 10 90,348 93 312,007 B5 36,661 Gl Casval Revenue : — Provincial Secretary's Department 11,P75 48 Rtgistrar-General's Branch 53 50 Fines, etc. 5,032 06 Insurance Companies' Fees 875 00 Surrogate Court " 2,925 00 Division '* " 10,853 21 .Land Titles Office 180 20 Official Gazette 5,154 43 Private Bills • 4,513 50 Statutes 1,011 35 Consolidated Rules of Practice 15 00 Incidentals 396 40 Refunds 920 75 43,005 88. Insurance Companies' Assessments 2,999 92 Removal of Patients 6,010 19 9,010 11 London Lunatic Asylum— Capital Account 15,359 06 MimicoFarm ' " 2,823 50 Mercer Reformatory " . 90 OO- Drainage Works Assessments 17,726 97 Toronto Lunatic Asylum— Sale of Lands . . * . . 82,976 87 New Parliament Buildings Fund 315 74 3,381,995 58 Drainage Debentures 37,226 68 Tile 3,932 73 §3,423,154 90 105,663 4S Receipts above the Estimates. If hon. members will refer to the detailed printed statements in their hands they will notice, with satisfaction I am sure, that our total actual ordinary receipts for the past year exceed the estimated receipts by the considerable sum of $44,74<7. If the details be looked into it will be seen that the estimate of my predecessor as to these receipts was singularly accurate. The largest item of these receipts, that of the Dominion subsidy, remains unchanged since confederation and calls for no remark. We have received last year by way of interest on capital held and debts due by the Dominion. FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF --to Ontario 8310,000, which is $44,000 in excess of our estimated re.ceipt from this source. The amount of interest we hnve received on invostmonts, namely, 803, 59G, exceeds the estimated receipt by ^3,590. During the last Parliament our receipts under these two Jieads, namely, interest on capital held and debts due by the Dominion to Ontario and interest on investments, aggregated for the four years .the very large sum of $1,348,000, or an average per yeaT of $337,332. Our interest receipts this last year exceed those made to urse the veyance natories. i this in rom this ieresting or a few ends on )ectively in force I 1887-8, THE HON. E. HARCOURT. 9* in 17 districts in 1888-9, while in the last year, that is in 1889-90. our license laws were in force in the whole Province. The operations of the Scott Act then, together with the legislation of 1886, under which a considerable increase in the license fees resulted to the Province, fully account for the considerable variation in our license revenues from year to year. It is worthy of remark that although there was no part of the Province under the Scott Act in 1881-?, the total number of licenses issued during that year was 4,163, while last year (1889-90) the total number was only 3,609, a decrease of 554 licenees in eight years. Hon. members may have noticed that some municipalities have recently passed resolutions complaining that the Government has appropriated for Provincial purposes an unjust share of the license fees. An examination of the question will convince every one that there is no good ground whatever for this complaint. While it is true, as I have said, that the Provincial revenue has been increasing for the reasons given, it is equally true that the municipal revenue has shared pari passu in this improvement. If we take the last four years for example, we find that the payments to the municipal- ities from license revenue have been : — Inl886-7 $153,716 Inl887-8 156,979 Inl888-9 190,297 And in 1889-90 297,353 Ifc will thus be seen that while the increase of the Provincial revenue during these four years amounted to 42 per cent., that of the revenue of the municipalities amounted to 93^ per cent. The muni- cipalities, then, have not only shared in the increase ; their percent- age of the increase these four years has been more than twice as large as that of the Province. Let me remind the House that in the absence of municipal by- laws increasing them, the total statutory fees to be collected for retail licenses are, for cities, according to their population, $250 or i i 10 FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF $200; for towns, $150; for incorporated villages, $120, and for townships, $9a. Municipal councils may, however, by by-laws and without taking a vote of the electors, add to these statutory fees a maximum amount of $100 in cities, $120 in towns, and $140 in incorporated villages and townships. Of the 29 municipalities which have sent in the resolutions of complaint to which I have referred, only four have passed by-laws exacting this maximum amount ; six of them have not av^ailed themselves of the right to pass the by-law, and the remaining 19 have by their by-laws added various amounts, all of them considerably, and the majority of them much under this maximum. All of the revenue accruing under these by-laws, we must remember, reverts to the municipalities. These 29 petitioning municipalities, if they were to pass by-laws exacting this maximum increase, would add to their license receipts in the aggregate in a single year the large sum of $12,750. They neglect to take advan- tage of the provisions of the law passed for their special benefit, and yet they complain that the Province appropriates to itself an unjust share of the revenue from licenses. But further. Sir, any municipality may impose still larger license fees, in addition to those already alluded to, by obtaining the assent of the electors to a by law submitted to them for this special purpose. The extra fee obtained by means of such by-law is shared equally between the Province and the municipality. In the Province of Quebec under the Act of last session, being an Act to amend the Quebec license law, no municipal council is allowed to levy from holders of licenses any tax, impost or duty exceeding $50 in any year, while the tariff of duties on licenses for Provincial purposes under the same law as applicable to the cities of Montreal and Quebec is very much higher than our Ontario tariff. More than half of the total number of licenses, hotel, retail and shop, in all the Province of Quebec are issued in the cities of Montreal and Quebec- In Quebec, then, the municipalities derive no revenue from liquor licenses save through the medium of their own by-laws, while in this THE HON. K. HARC'OURT. 11 L20, and for by-laws and ufcory fees a ind $140 in ilities which ive referred, .mount ; six the by-law, LIS amounts, I under this )y-laws, we petitioning 3 maximum regate in a ake advan- benefit, and f an unjust 'ger license the assent al purpose. ed equally Q, being an is allowed exceeding Provincial I Montreal More than , in all the id Quebec- cm liquor »ile in this Province in the first instance a very considerable amount of revenue, namely, two-thirds of the fee imposad, expenses having been first deducted, is handed over to the municipalities without their doing anything, with the power reserved to them to make large additions to it by passing by-laws for that purpose. The municipalities are receiving increased revenues, while the Province defrays the whole cost of regulating the traffic and of prosecuting for illicit sale. Under the local option clauses of our last statute amending our license laws 17 elections have been held. Local option has won the day in 15 out of these 17 elections. These elections occurred, however, in municipalities in which there were but few licenses. The result so far affects only 85 licenses. Sale of Asylum Lands. The item of $82,976 under the head of Toronto Lunatic Asylum sale of lands represents the value of certain mortgages taken as part payment on the occasion of the sale of a portion of the asylum lands in 1887, for the purpose of procuring funds with which to erect cottages at Mimico. Mr. Meredith. — Does that mean that the mortgages were put in the market and sold ? Mr. Harcourt. — They were sold at their face value without com- mission or any charge of that kind. There are now seven of these cottages completed, and we have expended upon them up to the close of last year $343,993. At the end of last year there were 170 inmates cared for in these cottages. The erection of another cottage is contemplated, and altogether they will accommodate 440 patients. On the one hand the Province has sold at a high price some of the land adjoining the old asylum, which was by far too valuable to retain for mere gardening pur- poses, and in its place it will have an asset of great value in the shape of these eight asylum cottages at Mimico, of modern design. well equipped and in every way perfectly adapted to meet the pur- I I' 12 FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF poses for which they were designed. There was an urgent demanil for increased accommodation; the time for selling the land was- fortunately chosen, and every one must admit that the difficulty to this extent has been most happily solved in the way 1 have indicated. Thus far, briefly. Sir, I have explained, as fully as would seem to be necessary, the revenue side of our finances for the past year. Let me repeat that while our total estimated receipts for 1890 were $3,337,222, our actual receipts (not including drainage debentures for which we do not estimate) have been $3,381,969, and that there- fore on the year's transactions our total receipts have exceeded the estimate by $44,747. The Expenditures. I will now consider the expenditure of 1890, which has been as. follows : — Expenditure, 1890. Civil Government $219,563 77 Legislation 121,475 97 Administration of Justice 391,006 00 Education 626,142 93 Public Institution Maintenance 769,905 68 Immigration 5,585 98 Agriculture 127,906 21 Hospitals and Ciiarities 126,037 38 Repairs and Maintenance 63,600 83 Public Buildings 453,188 51 Public Works 34,715 38 Colonization Roads 126,233 26 Charges Crown Lands 125,172 23 Refunds 26,168 14 MiBcellaneous 161,983 39 $3,367,685 66 Drainage Debentures ; 73,554 56 (Tile) 12,100 00 Railway Aid Certificates 248,681 74 Annuity " 62,200 00 New Parliament Buildings 142,102 42 83,896,324 38 I I f THE HON. R. HARCOUllT. 13 In the first place we will compare the actual expenditure of last year with the estimated expenditure to which the House last session rrave its assent. The gross total of the appropriations for 1890 was $3,545,593, while our actual ordinary expenditure has been $3,3G7, 443, so that of the money voted last year there remained unexpended the sum of $178,149. Our ordinary receipts, as I have already stated, amounted to $3,381,969, so that for the year just closed our ordinary receipts have exceeded our ordinary expenditures by $14,526. The largest unexpended amount concerns the ap])ropria- tion for public buildings, as to which it is evident that unforeseen ■circumstances may at any time occur which would retard the com- pletion of contemplated works. There remained unexpended last year of the sum voted for public buildings $104,661. This is in part explained by the fact that the works at the London, Hamilton and Orillia asylums, and also at the Mimico cottages, are not yet com- pleted. The School of Practical Science, in some respects, has not yet been fully equipped, and the sum of $3,000 voted ior Govern- ment House was not required. Re-votes for some of these un- expended items will, I presume, be taken. The sum actually expended for public buildings was $453,188, an amount larger than that spent in aUy previous year, except the years 1873 and 1889. On the Orillia asylum alone we spent last year $104,477, and at the close of the year it contained 311 inmates. We spent on public works $16,577 less than was voted. Some of the contemplated works were not proceeded with, for example, the Ottawa river bridge ; other works are not yet completed, and for these re-votes will be taken. Public Institutions. I3.8{)ft,324 38- We expended $33,526 less than our estimate upon public institu- tions maintenance. Our actual expenditure last year for this service reached the very large sum of $769,656, being $40,746 more than was ever expended under this head during any previous year 14 FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF in the history of the Province. This expenditure is growing rapidly year by year, amounting to in 1887 : !J650,744 188S 721,602 1889 728,909 1890 769,656 being an increase of $118,912, or more than 18 per cent, in the course of a single Parliament. It will be noticed that the efficient management of these public institutions, which on all sides are ad- mitted to be highly creditable to the Province, requires us to spend each year more than 64 per cent, of the annual subsidy we receive from the Dominion Government, and that this one service exhausts more than one-fifth of the total expenditure under our Supply Bill. I regret that I am compelled to announce that the number of patients in our five asylums is increasing year by year. The total number of inmates has been : — 1887 3,553 1888 3,808 1889 3,953 1890 4.187 being an increase of 634 patients or 18 percent, during the last four years. At the same time it is some satisfaction to know that for urgent immediate needs at any rate we have the required accom- modation ; and yet, judging from the past, recognising the over- whelming importance from a medical standpoint of having ample accommodation in advance, so thai the patients may at the earliest possible moment be placed under the best scientific treatment, we must expect that our duty to the public will require us at an early date to erect more of these asylum cottages. Especially is this the case when we remember that for different reasons it may soon become impossible for us to occupy any longer the present Toronto Asylum. We have not lost sight of the urgent need there is for closest economy, careful regard being had to efficiency, in the man- agement of these institutions. We all recognise at the same time m THE HON. R. HA.RCOURT. 15^ ^ rapidly t. in the i efficient !S are ad- to spend e receive exhausts pply Bill, imber of rhe total last four 7 that for ;d accom- the over- ng ample e earliest ment, we i an early s this the nay soon t Toronto lere is for the raan- ame time the full force of the truism that aside from all questions of humanity or sympathy tlie most humane and intelligent care of the insane is the most economical to the State. It is the opinion of experts that, since insanity can in a great many cases be cured by humane and skilful treatment, the proportion of the insane to the population can be materially reduced. A Comparison with the States. In the last report of the State Commission in Lunacy of the State of New York, it is strongly contended that the number of the insane in that State is steadily decreasing, and that the decrease is to be accounted for by intelligent treatment and supe- rior medical supervision. I have at hand a statement showing the per capita cost of caring for patients in 78 asylums similar to ours in the United States. The annual cost per patient in our asylums for the year ending 1890 was $131.74, or less than $2.54 per week- Only in one of these 78 institutions in the United States is the per capita cost less than in ours, while it very much exceeds ours in all the rest. The weekly per capita cost of the State hospitals at Utica, Middletown, Poughkeepsie and Buffalo (and these corre- spond to our asylums) is as follows : — Utica State Hospital, $4.83 ; Middletown, $6.03 ; Poughkeepsie, $5.58 ; Buffalo, $4.72 ; being an average of $5.^9, or more than double the weekly per capita cost in our asylums. I have another statement showing the cost per patient in ten important idiot asylums in the United States and England, the average yearly cost in them being $211. The aver- age cost at the Orillia Asylum last year was $139.76. The unexpended balance on account of the appropriation for public institutions is due to the fact that the Mimico cottages were not finished, while there was also a general decrease under the dif- ferent headings of the estimates taken. Further, the coal contracts- in several of the institutions were not completed. The over-expen- diture under the head of charges on Crown Lands of $3,022 was- 16 FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF !• f ill 11 ! i -caused by explorations and surveys incident to the timber sale of October last. The only other over-expenditure calling for remark is that appearing under the head of education, the amount being $7,445. Three services account for this, namely : — Departmental Examinations, Mechanics' Institutes, and payments to Super- annuated Teachers. r Mechanics' Institutes. It is especially gratifying to know that increased attention is being paid to the valuable work done by our Mechanics' Institutes. While we had 139 of these institutes in 1887, we had 159 in 1888, 179 in 1889, and 215 in 1890, an increase in their number during the last Parliament of 76, or 54 per cent. The amounts granted to these institutes were, during those years, as ioliovvs : — 1887, $26,107 ; 1888, $29,890 ; 1889, $31,428 ; 1890, $38,242. The amounts paid to Superannuated Teachers during last Parliament were:— 1887, $58,295; 1888, $58,290; 1889, $60,365; 1890, $62,105. Railway Aid Certificates. So much, Sir, as regards our ordinary expenditure under the Supply Bill. Outside of this we spent $83,654 in purchasing drainage and tile debentures, $300,831 to retire maturing railway aid certificates and annuities, and $142,10^ on our new Parliament Buildings, making a total expenditure for the year of $3,896,082. I expect to place in the hands of hon. members during the session a statement showing the amounts payable each year to meet the certificates issued in aid of railways as well as to meet the annui- ties. From this statement it will appear that while our expendi- ture for these purposes this year will exceed that of last year by about $3,000, it will be $115,557 less in 1892 and so remain until 1896, when it will again decrease to the extent of $5,008, and thereafter be considerably diminished from year to year. After I THE HON. R. HARCOURT. 17 ber sale of for remark ount being ipartmental to Super- ittention is ' Institutes, lad 159 in eir number he amounts i follows : — ^,242. The Parliament :36y; 1890, under the purchasing ing railway Parliament $3,896,082, : the session ;o meet the the annui- ur expendi- last year by emain until $5,008, and rear. After 1903 the only certificates remaining unpaid will be those of tho Port Arthur, Duluth & Western Railway, the particulars of which are well-known to the House. (Hear, hear,) The Arbitration on Disputed Accounts. Allusion was made in the Speech from the Throne at the opening of the session to the fact that a conference had recently been held between the Government here and representatives of the Govern- ments at Ottawa and Quebec, with the result that definite arrange- ments were made for an arbitration which would settle inter alia the long disputed accounts. Session after ses,sion my predecessor was compelled to express his regret that he was unable to announce that satisfactory progress had been made in this direction. The Attorney-General has introduced a bill relating to the proposed arbitration. A similar bill, a copy of which I have at hand, was passed last session by the Government of Quebec. We must all rejoice to know that these long-standing differences of account accumulating since the date of Confederation will in all probability be settled at a very early day and through the desirable medium of friendly arbitration. A brief resume of some of the main points of dispute with a recital of the progress made from time to time towards t)ieir adjustment may not prove wholly unin- teresting to the House. Under section 112 of the British North America Act, Ontario and Quebec became conjointly liable to Canada, for the amount by which the debt of the Province of Canada, exceeded at the date of the Union the sum of $62,500,000, and the Provinces were to pay to Canada interest at the rate of 5 per cent, per annum on this excess of debt. Section 113 of the same Act declared certain assets to be the property of Ontario and Quebec conjointly. Section 142 provided for the division and adjustment of the debts, credits, liabilities, properties and assets of Upper and Lower Canada by means of arbitration. An arbitration was held, and on the 3rd day of September, 1870, an award signed by two 2 (B,) 18 FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF i'f only of the three arbitrators was made. This award was for vari- ous reasons submitted to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, and it was not confirmed until the 26th of March, 1878. Nearly eight years therefore elapsed between the date when the award was made and the date of its confirmation by the Privy Council. Pending the proceedings on the arbitration and until the award was sanctioned, the Dominion Government continued to pay and receive moneys on account of the late Province of Canada and assumed in a geneal way, as has been said, the position of bankers and paymasters for the two Provinces. In the public accounts of the Dominion accounts were opened up in which the payments made to the Provinces were charged and the revenues received in their behalf credited to them. These accounts included, of course, the payments of the different amounts paid from time to time to the Provinces by way of subsidies. In the meantime and prior to the confirmation of the award, the Parliament of Canada, deeming it desirable to relieve Ontario and Quebec from payment of the excess of their joint debt above the $62,500,000 which Canada assumed at Confederation, passed the Act of 1873 (36 Vic. ch. 30) which relieved the Provinces from this excess ^f debt, amounting to $10,506,088. We must remember that the Provinces were chargeable in their account with Canada year by year with interest at the rate of 5 per cent, per annum on this excess of debt. ■■■:i ■I Grants and Subsidies to the Provinces. Still another section of the B.N.A. Act provided for the payment of specific grants yearly to meet purposes of legislation, as well as subsidies to the amount of 80 cents per head of the population as ascertained by the census of 1861, by Canada to the two Provinces. These grants and subsidies were to be paid half yearly in advance to the Provinces, but the Government of Canada exercised its right year by year to deduct therefrom various sums chargeable as interest THE HON. R. HARCOURT. 10 for vari- le Privy ch, 1878. (vhen the he Privy until the 3d to pay : Canada )sition of le public vhich the revenues I included, [rom time meantime lament of lebec from 62,500,000 ,t of 1S73 his excess mber that h Canada annum on on the sum of $10,500,000, this being the amount by which the debt of Canada exceeded at the date of Confederation the sum of $62,500,000. Because of this there was withheld from our subsidy year by year up to 1874 (that being the first year in which the full benefit of the remission under the act of 1873 was felt) the large sum of $291,666 entered up against us in the Dominion ledgers as interest on excess of debt. Although the result of the award was made known to the two Provinces in May, 1878, no meeting of representatives of the three Governments took place until Novem- ber, 1882, the long delay being partly due to the fact that a ■change of Government had taken place in the Dominion, and both Federal and Provincial elections had occurred in the meantime. This first conference, as it is called, held in Ottawa, in November, 1882, led to important results. The Treasurers of Ontario and Quebec, Messrs. Wood and Wurtele, discussed in presence of Mr. Oourtney, then as now the Deputy Minister of Finance at Ottawa, the manner in which the accounts should be made up and the prin- ciple on which interest should be charged. No accounts had been prepared for them. The Dominion ledgers, containing the current accounts since July 1st, 1867, were the only accounts extant. The following memorandum without prejudice was thereupon prepared and signed by the Treasurers : — "Memorandum Without Prejudice. le payment as well as julation as Provinces. in advance 3d its right as interest " The Treasurers of the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec having met to discuss the subject of ia settlement of accounts between the two Provinces and the Dominion, are of opinion that before pro- ceeding thereto it is expedient that a statement of accounts between the Dominion and each of the two Provinces should be prepared, showing for each year on the debit side the various amounts paid, giving date or average date and the various amounts chargeable to each Province, and on the credit side the amount of subsidy, of interest on school funds, on widows' pensions 4> 20 FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF and uncodiputed stipends, Upper Canada and Lower Canada, on the amount coming to each Province under the award for the Library and on Common School Lands and Crown Lands, Improve- ment Funds and other services. They are further of opinion that a balance should be struck yearly, and that in arriving at such a balance interest should be allowed or charged half-yearly, and that the amounts determined by award to be taken as the basis so far as it applies to the statement in question. " The Treasurers therefore beg to request that such a statement be prepared and furnished to them at an early date, and that all special funds be carried to the credit of the Province to which they respec- tively appertain, as on 1st July, 1867. " S. C. Wood, " Treasurer of Ontario. "J. WURTELE. " Treasurer of Quebec. " Ottawa. 23rd November. 1882." It is contended on behalf of the Provinces that this memorandum was approved of by both the Finance Minister at Ottawa and his deputy. The accounts, calculated on the basis of compound interest, prepared in exact accordance with the principle set forth in the memorandum, were sent to the Treasurers in 1883, thirteen months after the date of the memorandum, no word of objection or protest having been raised in the meantime. These same accounts were, in the session of 1884, presented to the Dominion Parliament. In Oc- tober, 1884, a second conference was held at Ottawa at which were present the Treasurers of the Provinces, the Finance Minister of the Dominion and his Deputy, Mr. Courtney. These same accounts were placed before the members of the conference, and an examina- tion into their details was continued for two long days. Items were ■§ i. THE HON. R. HARCOURT, 21 Canada, on ■d for the , Improve- linion that r at such a /■, and that Dasis so far atement be b all special bey respec- Ontario. Quebec. emorandum Lwa and hia md interest, brth in the teen months Q or protest ints were, in mt. In Oc- which were nister of the ne accounts an examina- Items were ■discussed pro and con, inquiries made into this and that account, but not one word of protest uttered ajjainst the principle upon which the accounts were calculated. The Dominion Act of 18j4 (47 Vic, ch. 4) now calls for some remark. It aimed at declaring the inten- tions of the Act of 1873, to which allusion has been made. The one is the complement of the other. The Act of 1873 relieved the Pro- vinces from the excess of debt, that of 1884 cancelled the charges made against the Provinces from year to year as to the interest on this excess ; in other words, by the operation of the Act )f 1884 the Dominion of Canada became liable for $73,000,088 as the debt of the late Province of Canada on July 1st, 1867. It was claimed for the Provinces that, while they were cht rged compound interest on these accounts, this Act of 1884, which aimed at reimbursing them to the extent of the interest charges on the excess of debt, did not allow compound interest. Inasmuch as the Act of 1884 was passed after the accounts of which we have been speaking had been pre- pared, it became necessary that they should be re-cast. A re-cast was accordingly prepared by the Finance Minister, the basis of cal- culation being again that of compound interest, and sent to the Treasurers of the two Provinces in January, 1886. The Finance Minister, after so sending the accounts to the Treasurers, &,ccepted corrections made on behalf of the Provinces, and adopted said cor- rections without reservation or objection. It is important to remem- ber, also, that Mr. McLelan, Finance Minister at that time, laid before the House, without request of Parliament, the accounts of the Do- minion with the Provinces from Ist of July, 1867, to 30th of June, 1885, made up at compound interest. A third conference was held at Ottawa, in October, 1888, and then for the first time during all these years the objection was taken by the Dominion Government that the interest had been calculated on a wrong basis, that the memorandum of 1882 was not binding, and that the Provinces would not be allowed more than 5 per cent, simple interest on these accounts. 2U FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF The Contentions of the Government. We contend (1) that by the system adopted by the Dominion for the payment of the subsidies, the retention on account of the excess of debt until the same was wholly assumed by Canada, and the hold- ing and beneficial use of the assets of Ontario and Quebec, including the trust funds, and by agreement, the accounts between the Do- minion of Canada and Ontario and Quebec respectively, are to bear interest at the rate of 5 per cent, per annum, compounded half- yearly ; (2) that the general rule that payments made by the debtor should be applied primarily in reduction of the interest accrued on the creditor's advance is to be observed ; (3) that in respect of certain funds the rate of interest to be borne thereon is 6 per cent, per an- num. This question is of such serious importance to the Province that we would lose the large sum of $857,000 if we are compelled to accept a settlement on the basis of 5 per cent, simple interest, that being the basis of the new accounts submitted in 1888. Aside from every other consideration the reasonableness of the demand of the Provinces that they should receive 5 per cent, interest compounded and computed with half-yearly rests on the very large amounts held for them in trust by the Dominion since the date of Confederation, is very apparent when we remember that during a large part of that time the Dominion continued to pay 6 per cent, and even 7 per cent. in some instances on borrowed money, that in their accounts they credit us with 5 per cent, compounded half-yearly on our share of the Common School Fund, and that they have allowed 6 per cent, continuously on other funds such as tbe Indian Trust Fund, and the Seignorial Indemnity Fund of Lower Canada. The utter unreason- ableness of the new accounts submitted by the Dominion is just as apparent when we notice that from year to year the Dominian gives us credit in them for large accruals of interest, and that the pay- ments of interest paid to us are not charged against this accumulat- ing interest credit, but are charged against the principal lying to THE HON. R. HARCOURT. 23 our credit. In this way we lose interest altogether on these large accumulating credits of interest, so that the new accounts when analyzed do not allow us even 4 per cent, interest on our trust funds. I have given this brief explanation as to the disputed accounts, not by way of argument, inasmuch as the question is so large that it would, if fully discussed, in itself take up a whole afternoon, but with the hope that it would prove interesting, especially to those who are sitting here for the tirst time, and particularly because I am delighted to announce that I fully expect that the whole subject will soon be disposed of without further irritation and in the most friendly spirit possible. (Applause.) A Comparison — Assets. I will now briefly allude to our statement of assets and liabilities.- Assets of the Province. 1. Direct Investments :— Dominion 6 per cer*„ Bonde $200,000 00 Market value over par value 10,000 00 8210,000 00 Drainage 5 per cent. Debentures in- vested 3l8t December, 1890 223,809 02 Tile Drainage 5 per cent. Debentures, ... in vested Slst December, 1890... 86,623 96 Drainage Works— Municipal Assess- ments 207,015 04 517,448 02 I ■ ' , $727,448 02 2. Capital held and D'Ms due by the Dominion to Ontario, hearing Interest :— U. C. Grammi,r School Fund, (2 Vict., Cap. 10) . . . 312,769 04 U. C. Buildin ( Fi uu, (18 Sect. Act, 1854) 1,472,391 41 Land Improvtro.nt Fund, (See Award) 124,685 18 Ontario Share c f Library, (See Award) 105,541 00 ' i Balance of Unpaid Subsidy and other Credits 1,590,619 37 , * i' '~~~'~~~ ■ .' . ' ' . 3,605,906 00 • • = 24 FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF Common School Fund :— Collections by Dominion 1,520,950 24 Collections by Ontario after de- ducting Land Improvement Fund and 6 per cent, for Collections to 31st December, 1889 936,729 10 2,457,679 34 Ontario's Share according to population of 1881 . . . 1,440,070 21 3. Bank Balances : — Current Accounts Total 5,045,976 21 44,791 98 5,818,216 21 LlABILITIKS OF THE PkOVINCE AT PRESENT P ' YABLK. 1. Balance due to Municipalities re Surplus Distribution 1,291 30 2. Balance due to Municipalities re Land Improiement Fund Interest 3,256 57 3. Quebec's Share of Collections for Common School Fund in 1890, made up as follows :— Collections during 1890, on account of Lands sold between 14th June, 1853, and 6th March, 1861 9,'?90 31 Less 6 per cent., cost of Management. 557 41 8,732 90 Less one-quarter for Land Improvement Fund .... 2,183 22 Collections during 1890, on Sales made since 6th March, 1801 .... 2,467 93 Less 6 per cent. , cost of Management. 148 07 6,549 68 2,319 86 8,869 54 Quebec's proportion, accordmg to population of 1881 . Total 3,672 45 8,220 32 Surplus of Assets after deducting Liabilities presently payable 5 .809,995 89 It will be noticed that the sum invested in,drainage debentures is considerably larger than it has been for some years past. We pur- chased last year municipal debentures for drainage purposes to the amount of $85,654. We received last year as payments on deben- tures 51^41,192, so that our investments for this purpose exceeded our receipts by $44,464. As to the next branch of our assets, that which appears under the title of " Capital held and debts due by the Do- minion to Ontario, Jl>earing interest," it will be remembered that the THE HON. R. HARCOURT. 25 late Treasurer departed last year from the classification followed in 1889 and previous jears, in which appeared the item of $2,848,289, which was our share of the capital sum given to us under the pro- visions of 47 Vic, ch. 4, to which I have already alluded. The rea- sons assigned by him for this departure commended themselves, to the House. I follow, therefore, the arrangement of our assets as set forth in the financial statement of last session, and in place of this item of $2,848,289 I substitute the item of $1,590,519, being the balance due to us of unpaid subsidy and other credits. This last named item is arrived at as follows : — It was agreed at the confer- ence of 1888 that the Acts of 1873 and 1884 should be so interpreted that Canada was to be considered as having assumed the surplus debt of $10,^06,000 at the date of Confederation instead of in 1873. Therefore, on the one hand we remove this sum of $2,848,000 from the credits in the " Ontario account as well as the items charged against us as interest on the surplus debt, and on the other hand we place to our credit the items which the Dominion retained from our subsidy from 1867 to 1873 to meet the interest on our excess of debt. In this way, starting with the accounts as submitted to us by the Dominion in 1886, we arrive at the balance of subsidy re- ferred to. The three special trust funds, viz.: Upper Canada Gram- mar School Fund, Upper Canada Building Fund, and the Land Improvement Fund, aggregating nearly $2,000,000, having been referred to so constantly in previous years, call now for no remark. These trust funds came to us under the award ; the Dominion con- tinues to hold them for us, we get interest on them regularly, and we have not touched a dollar of them. These investments, bringing us in half-yearly payments of interest, are admittedly of the safest character possible, and it can no longer be contended, in the face of the letter of the Finance Minister at Ottawa, suggesting such legis- lation as would result in placing the Common School Fund com- pletely under our control, that they are not available assets. We have to our credit bank balances to the amount of $44,792, and this 26 FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF leaves us altogether a surplus of assets over and above all liabilities^ at present payable of $5,809,995. Liabilities. As to our liabilities I need give only a word of explanation, Tl. ?re- is a small balance due to a few municipalities — I think four only — on account of the Land Improvement Fund. I am referring, of course, to the collections made on account of sales of Common School lands. Honorable gentlemen will remember that the collections up to July 1, 1867, belonging to this fund, amounted to $124,685. that in 1882 we passed an Act under which this sum was paid to the municipalities entitled, and that in 1886 we passed another Act pro- viding for the payment of the interest on this same fund to these municipalities. This small balance will be paid as soon as certain questions arising out of the incorporation of villages, and the conse- quent alteration of the boundaries of townships are settled. Our liability to Quebec in the matter of the Common School Fund is plainly set out in the statement in the hands of hon. gentlemen^ The statement before us shows that our present liabilities amount to only $8,220. We have never included as a present liability our railway aid certificates, nor do we now so include them. We need not this moment concern ourselves with the question of payments which were as a matter of deliberate policy postponed for future years, which were never intended to be met out of present assets, but were expressly regarded as a charge on the receipts of future years. These railway aid certificates, as I have already said, call for a payment this year of the large sum of $252,179 ; next year they drop to a sum only about half as much, namely, $135,622. In 1897 they call for only $110,000 ; in 1900 for $61,000, while inside of the short space of thirteen years — a short time in the history of a province — they drop to $4,197 per year, and remain at that figure until the last one is redeemed. Our opponents speak of them as though they were a crushing weight, while the truth is that we have THE HON. R. HARCOURT. 27 rolled off, through the payments we have already made, the heaviest part of the burden. This burden is rapidly diminishing. In less than six years the payment will -be $140,000 less than the payment of thi& year. After nine more payments have been made, and these much reduced in amount, the yearly charge they impose is a trifling one. Not Present Liabilities. It has been pointed out that the Dominion Government does not treat as present liabilities, as part of her present debt, the large subsidies, similar to ours, granted to railways, and to be paid by way of annual instalments for definite periods. For example, let us refer to page 8 of the last Budget speech (1890) of Mr. Foster, Minister of Finance, in which, speaking of the Short Line Railway ^ he says that its subsidy is to run for nineteen years yet to come, and that its present value is $2,679,529, a sum greatly in excess of all our railway certificates and annuities combined. The Dominion Government does not treat and has not treated this subsidy to the Short Line Railway as a present liability, as a part of the debt of the Dominion. If the accuracy of this statement is questioned, I am prepared to furnish most satisfactory proof of its absolute cor- rectness. Moreover, thi'^ Dominion subsidy to which I have alluded is but one of many similarly treated. A glance at any recent volume of the Dominion Statutes will confirm what I say. While it would be worse than folly to adopt a policy of concealment as to our finances, it is certainly neither fair nor patriotic to pursue a line of argument concerning them which no one wouM think of resort- ing to in discussing the financial status of an individual or a com- mercial corporation. We could very reasonably present a much more favorable statement of assets, and one to which no sound objection could be taken. For example, at the sale in October last, we sold some timber limits, realising altogether $346,256. Of this amount there has been paid as yet only $110,729. The purchasers still owe the Province $235,526, and they are paying interest on this- 28 FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF M sura. Here we have an asset unquestionably good to the amount of nearly a quarter of a million of dollars. No part of it is included in our statement of assets. We have another asset eight or nine times as large as this to which no one can take exception, and which we do not include in the schedule of assets in the hands of hon. members. I allude to unpaid balances due to the Province on account of sales of lands. The col- lectable arrears on account of sales of Crown lands alread}'' effected, due to the Province, amounts to a very large sum, estimated by the Crown Lands Department to be at least $2,750,000. That this esti- mate is not excessive is plain when we consider that the arrears on the 16th day of December, 1867, amounted to $6,84)8,000, as is shown by a statement in the Crown Lands Department. Mr. Meredith — You have wiped out two or three millions of that by agreement. Mr. Harcourt — I will deal with that. The sales since Confedera- tion amount to $2,090,000 ; our collections have been $4,650,000, and therefore the balance due the Province would strictly be about $4,288,000. Inasmuch as considerable reductions have from time to time been made in the price of lands based on new valuations, and because of our own Jegislation, which remitted arrears due by settlers who had purchased in townships afterwards made free grants (say Muskoka District, the Counties of Frontenac, Renfrew and perhaps Peterborough), the estimate of the department is placed at the moderate sum of two and three-quarters of a million of dollars. We have collected of arrears $2,560,000, and this tends again to show that the estimate of the Department is not an excessive one. It has never been the policy of the Crown Lands Department or its prac- tice to unduly press the settlers for payments of these arrears, since interest is running and the lands are considered to be worth the purchase money and interest. THE HON. R. HARCOURT. 2d A Question of Capital. ions of that If a purely mercantile statement of assets and liabilities is asked' for, let us have it by all means. It would show a result very satis- factory to the friends of this Government, and it would prove abundantly that instead of our over-estimating- our assets we have taken the most moderate view of them possible. If hon. gentlemen opposite insist on capitalising against the Province all the maturing railway certificates and our four issues of annuities upon the ground that this is the business way of arriving at our financial status, then we must capitalise in our favor and. place to our credit as assets the subsidy we get each year from the Dominion, our receipts from Crown lands and timber as well as our other receipts, and include also the value of our public buildings. This would add many millions to the value of our assets. If we capitalise payments to be made year by year out of our yearly receipts to railv/ays during any period of time, say up to 1903, and place the capitalised amount as a liability of the Province, then to be consistent we must claim as an asset the capitalised value of all our receipts for the same period of time. If we apply the same business rules in com- piling our statement of assets as is applied to commercial corpora- tions, then I repeat that the friends of the Government will have every reason to rejoice at the result. This absurd idea of capitalising these terminable railway annuities in order to show a heavy liability against the Province most completely demonstrates the strength of the position of the Government as to its management of our finances. Our opponents might as reasonably capitalise the yearly grants for educational purposes or for agriculture, and ask us to consider the amount so capitalised as a present liability of the Province. Our yearly revenue from liquor licenses, and it is per- manent in nature and not terminable as are these railway obliga- tions, amounts to about $300,000. The friends of the Government might just as reasonably capitalise this revenue and claim the 30 FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF millions it would represent as an addition to our assets. Large •commercial coiporations in their schedules of assets include the value of their buildings. Our Canadian banks in their returns to •the Government include as assets the value of their banking premises, two of them in the latest returns at figures each exceeding $600,000. No one questions the propriety of their so doing. We spent during last Parliament alone over $2,000,000 on public build- ings, and, strange to say, those who insist on capitalising our railway certificates and regard them as a crashing load of debt are never heard to say one word of this large expenditure or of the valuable asset it represents. Estimated Keceipts for Current Year. Let us now for a moment speak of our estimated receipts for the •current year. Estimated Receipts, 1891. Subsidy $1,196,872 80 Interest on Capital held, and Debts due by the Dominion to Ontario $300,000 00 Interest on Investments 55,000 00 355,000 00 "Crown Lands Department .— Crown Lands 85,000 00 Clergy Lands 5,000 00 Common School Lands 10,000 00 Woods and Forests 1,000,000 00 1,100,000 00 J'uhlie Institutions ■' — Toronto Lunatic Asylum 37,000 00 London " 10,000 00 Kingston " 3,500 00 Hamilton " 9,000 00 Orillia " 1^600 00 Reformatory for Females 4 OOO 00 ' " Boys 700 00 > • Central Prison . . 65,000 00 Deaf and Dumb Institute ». 150 OO '■-,•■■■■ - 130,95000 THE HON. R. HARCOURT. 31 Education Department 36,000 00 •Casual Revenue 50,000 00 Licenses 310,000 00 LawStamps •• 90,000 00 AlgomaTaxes 4,000 00 Drainage Assessment 17,000 00 Insurance Companies' Assessments 3,000 00 Removal of Patients 6,000 00 Total S3,298,822 80 We expect to receive as interest on capital held and debts "by the Dominion to Ontario $300,000, and as interest on invest- ments $55,000. Taken together I am estimating for $8,596 less under these two heads than we actually received last year. In all probability the actual receipt this year will exceed my estimate. For casual revenue my estimate is $50,000, being $1,913 under the actual receipts of 1889. For revenue from Crown Lands Depart- ment our estimate is $3,443 under the receipts of the previous year and well within the receipts of 1887 and 1888. Similarly in placing the expected revenue for the current year from liquor licenses at $310,000, 1 am keeping well within the actual receipts of last year. Our total estimated receipts for 1891 are $3,298,822. Estimated Expenditure for Year. Our estimated expenditure for this year is $3,491,027. The particulars of this expenditure will be discussed in detail in com- mittee of the whole House. If we add supplementary estimates, say $40,000, our total estimated expenditure will be $3,531,027. This will leave a balance unprovided for under our estimates of $232,204. At the same time our estimates of expenditure are calculated so liberally and our estimates of receipts so closely, that at the end of the year it may be found, as has previously been the case in our history, that this deficiency is apparent and not real. For example, while an expenditure over the receipts in 1886 to the extent of $241,000 was apparently to be anticipated, the result at Il' m FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF the close of the year disclosed an actual surplus on the year's opera- tions under the Supply Bill of $70,000. The same state of things, with a variation in detail, happened the following year in 1887. During each of the last five years our actual receipts have largely exceeded our estimated receipts, while our actual expenditure has been very much less each year than our estimated expenditure. In other words at the close of 1S8G we were better off than we expected to the extent of $381,895, at the close of 1887 to the extent of ;:'55G,144, at the close of 1888 to the extent of $204,577, at the close of 1889 to the extent of $345,726. at the close of 1890 to the extent of $222,679. Additional Expenditure. Outside of the estimates in the hands of hon. members, we will have an additional expenditure for railways and annuity cer- tificates. These certificates we will, in all probability, replace by a new issue. A. glance at the estimates at once suggests that the needs of. the Province loudly call, year by year, for increased ex- penditure. We cannot afford to stand still. Standing still in practice means retrogression. Since the details of* the estimates will be critised in committee, a word or two now will suffice. We are asking for educational purposes $24,576 more than we expended last year. Of this $3,000 will go to kindergarten schools. Unless we gave them this aid some of the Public School grant would be diverted to kindergarten purposes. No one wants to see the Public School appropriation lessened by a single dollar. All practical educationists now concur in the belief that the best .foundation for thorough educational development is that which the kinder- garten gives. Seven years ago there was but one kindergarten in the Province, now all our larger places consider them to be in- dispensable. We ask $1,000 to encourage School Boards to establish night schools, and on all sides, whether we view them from a moral M ! THE HON. R. HARCOURT. 3a r s opera- of things, in 1887. i^e largely iture has ture. F than we V7 to the $204,577, ke of 1890 •s, we will uity cer- place by a I that the •eased ex- g still in estimates ffice. We expended i. Unless would be the Public practical oundation le kinder- garten in to be in- ) establish n a moral or educational standpoint, it is conceded tliat great good must result from their establishment. ' These are some of our newoxpendrtuBea^ii-li.f :'f. We have eighteen more High Schools than we had in 1883, and the attendance at them has doubled in ten years. Our Public School teachers are trained at these schools, and therefore, everything which will increase their efficiency tends to help every Publu; School in the land. We are asking an additional $5,000 for High Schools ; a similar sum for inspection of Public Schools in cities and towns .separated from counties, this last being a new expenditure. Under the head of public buildings we ask for $20,000 to erect assembly and class rooms at the Normal School at Ottawa More • than half of our proposed total expenditure for the year is asked i for these three heads: — Education. Maintenance of Public Institutions and Public Buildings. We should bear in mind that, although thei e has been no sale of annuities since 1887, we have been able to ex-- pend during last Parliament, very large sums outsitle of our ordinary expenditure, and still have to the good the handsome • surplus I have named. For example : we expended last Parliament for public buildings, $1,497,801, and for aid to railways, $1,347,377,. an average under these two heads alone of nearly three-quarters of a million a year. All this has been done without neglecting, in any particular, any department of our service. On the contrary, everjr department has been strengthened year by year, and its usefulnesfib increased. The Policy of the Future. Each year suggests new responsibilities, calling for further ex- penditure, and. if the Province is to realise the high destiny which ^ we all believe awaits it, we must adopt a liberal, and at the same - time, a careful and vigorous policy commensurate with its require- ments. (Applause.) Recent developments, for example, convince even those who are least inclined to be over-sanguine, that it is im- possible to over-rate the mineral wealth of the Province. Indeed 3(B.) :84 FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF THE HON. R. HARCOURT. "We may well believe that the near future will witness a display of •energy, a degree of enterprise in developing this wealth hitherto unparalleled on this continent. If we make the most of nature's ^rand gift to us in this one direction, then our Province will as- jguredly enter on a new and bright era of prosperity. The extreme pessimist even, if he be candid, having looked the 'wliole field over, keeping in view that our every year is marked "with heavy expenditures on capital account, called for by the pressing needs of a growing Province, will be compelled to admit ^hat our financial position is exceptionally strong. I move, Mr. Speaker, that you do now leave the chair. (Loud 4cheers.) y of »erto APPENDIX. ' t Statement shewing amounts payable annually for Cerfcificate.«r, issued by the Treasurer of the Province of Ontario, for " Aid to liailways " and " Annuities." Yrar. 1891. 1892. 1893 1894. 1895 1896. 1897. 1898 1899. 1900. 1901. 1902. 1903. 1904 1905. 1906 1907. 1908. 1909. 1910. Railway Aid Certificates. 9 c. 252,179 74 135.622 04 135.623 04 135,622 04 135,622 04 130,613 84 110,061 98 81,548 98 67,116 59 61,043 58 29,238 17 13,080 57 4,612 89 4,197 60 4,197 60 4,197 00 4,197 60 4,197 60 4,197 60 4,197 60 Annuities. 52,200 00 52,200 00 52,200 00 52,200 00 52,200 00 52,200 00 52,200 00 •52,200 00 52,200 00 52,200 00 52,200 00 52,200 00 52,200 00 52.200 00 53,200 00 62,200 00 52,200 00 52,20C 00 52,200 00 52,200 00 Carried forward.\ 1,321,367 70, 1,044,000 00 Year. Brought forwa rd. 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 • 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1920 1930 Totals . Railway Aid Certificates. Annuities. 9 c. 1,321,307 70 4,197 60 4,197 60 4,197 60 4,197 60 4,197 60 4,197 60 4,197 60 4,197 60 4,197 60 4,197 60 4,197 60 4,197 60 4,197 60 4,197 60 4,197 60 4,197 60 4,197 60 4,197 60 4,197 60 3,498 00 1,044,000 OO 52,200 OO- 52,200 00* 52,200 oa* 52,200 OO 52,200 00» 52,200 OO 52,200 OO 52,200 OO 52,200 OO 52,200 00 ■ 52,200 00 52,200 OO 52,200 OO 45,500 00' 31,800 00» 18,050 00' 6,250 OO* l,40i,620 10 1,824,800 GO Provincial Auditor's Office, Toronto, December 31st, 1890. 0. H. SPROULK, Provincial Aii>litor. I 36 APPENDIX. Statement shewijij^ amounts payable annually for Certificates Name of Railway. 1891. BrantfoifJ, Norfolk & Pt. liiirwt;H XJanada Southern. ^Canada Atlantic. . •Credit Valley . ... Erie & Hnron . . «. T. G. B. & Lake Erie Crrand Junction fiamiltnn & North Western Bellev:ile & North Hastings London, Huron &, Bruce Midland North Siincoe Kingston & Pembroke Prince Edward County Prince Arthur's Land ing Toronto, Grey & Bruce Victoria Whitby, Pt. Perry & Lindsay Pt. Arthur, Duluth & WcHtern $ c G,4G7 fi8 13,227 9G 22,74i 38 39,845 04 G,nO 02 11,493 30 11,903 3i 3G,384 8G 1892. 1893. $0.1 $ c. 22,744 3S 22,744 38 24,057 82 24,057 82 G.llO 02 G.llO 02 11,493 30 11,493 30 11,903 38 11,903 .S8 1,553 02 5,710 32 5,710 32 13,441 98 7,464 22 7,212 08 19,671 16 7, r 76 00 1,037 36 1,553,02 5,710 32 7,212 08 19,G71 16 1,037 36 8,809 12 I 25,193 76 15,442 08 Totals 4,489 52 4,197 GO 252,179 74 4,489 52 4,197 60 7,212 08 19,671 16 1894. 1895 § c. 22,744 38 1896. c. 22,744 38, 22,744 38 24,057 82! 24,057 82] 24,057 82 6,110 02 11,493 30 I 6,110 02, 6,110 02 11,493 30 11,493 30 11,903 38 11,903 38 1,553 02 5,710 32 1,553 02 11,903 38 1,553 02 7,212 08 19,671 16 1,037 36 135,622 04 15,-142 08 4,489 52 4,197 60 135,622 04 1.037 36 15,442 08 4,489 52 4,197 60 135,622 04 5,710 32 5,710 32 7,212 08 19,671 16 1,037 36 7,212 OJ 19,671 16 518 68 15,442 08 4,489 52 4,197 60 135,622 04 15,442 08 4,197 60 130,613 84 Note. -Certificates falling due after 1903 : Port Arthur & Duluth Ry., Provincial Audit Office, ToiiONTO, December 31st, 1890. J : mmm c. APPENDIX. .37 issued by the Treasurer of Ontario in aid to Railways. 1897. 1898. 1899. looo; 1901. 1902. 1903. Totals. $ c. $ c. $ c. $ C.I $ c. $ c. 1 $ c. $ c. 6,467 08 12,J27 96 22,744 38 10,378 79 6,110 02 11,493 30 6,953 59 22,744 38 101 68 6,110 02 11,493 30 2,795 45 22,744 38 6,180 99 233,624 79 22,744 38 i3,220 70 6,lie 02 193,838 46 6,110 02 8,320 42 6,110 02 3,055 01 70,265 23 111,760 12 11,493 dO 93,072 70 11,903 do 44,149 96 2,855 le 1 37,117 08 13,441 98 7,464 22 3,606 04 19,671 16 46,878 52 19,6?i 16 19,(;71 16 19,671 10 12,749 56 5.827 96 415 29 215,704 41 7,776 00 5,705 48 8,809 12 4,t^60 24 106,664 40 22,447 60 4,197 60 4,197 60 4,197 60 4,197 60 4,197 60 4,197 60 4,197 60 54,668 80 110,061 98 81,548 9fi 67,116 bfl 8\,043 58 1 29,238 17 13,080 67 4,612 8S 1,291,984 50 161 (a $699.60 -= $112,635.00. Last Certificate due Ist July, 1930. C. H. SPKOULE, Provincial Auditor. 38 APPENDIX. Statement shewing the amounts payable (Ontario's share) to the Municipalities entitled on account of Crown Lands collection* subject to the Land Improvement Fund (on sales made between 6th March, 1861, and 1st July, 1867). from 1st July, 1867, to 1st. July. 1891. (7tcie0nt. Statutes, 54 Vic, Cap. 9.) ■0(/«?» Ctunty of Bruce : Township of Brant Carrick " Culroas . . . . , " Greenock " Kincardine... " Kinloss •• Paisley (hunty of Carlcton : Township of Gloucester . . " Goulburn . . . '• Huntley .... '• March " Marlborough Osifoode .... Torbolton . . « County of Durham : Tovnship of Cavan . . . County of Elgin : Township of Dunwich. County of Essex : Township of Colchester Gosfield . . Maidstone .... " Maiden " Mersea ** Rochester .... " Tilbury, West Ctmntp of Frontcnac ; Township of Barrte ...... Bedford " " Canoiito " Hiiichinbrooke \ . " Kennebec .... f , " Loughborough Amount of principal payable. $68 01 4,858 91 3,596 47 2,070 36 114 26 1,706 18 4 07 55 70 as 84 23 11 7 76- 21 15- 32 25 89 08 38 29- 150 27 118 82 32 65 84 26 16 42 103 13 44 73^ 12 1 07 126 77 53 17 22 40- 163 58 40 99 191 51 ■COUT €vui Cmi Cou Cot APPENDIX. 39 I the 1st. ble. •Oounty of Frontenac^ — Continund , Township of Olden Oso Palmetston. Portlana . . . Storrington ■County of OrcnviUe : Township of Edwardsburj? «' Oxford " Wolford i'vunty of ilrty : Township of Artemesia. Bentinck . . . Cr.llingwood Derby Egremont . . Euphrasia. . . Glenelg Holland Melancthon Osprey Proton St. Vincent Sullivan ... Sydenham . {Joant^ of HultoH : Township of Nassagaweya. County of Hastings : Township of Elzevir. " Herschel Hungerford . , Lake Limerick Madoc Marmora — Kawdon Tudor County of Huron : Township of Ashtield •* . . . " Grey " Howick •' Wawanosb, West. Amount of Principal payable. $534 68 124 32 54 29 21 19 33 90 17 73 2 20 11 00 1,107 30 7 05 195 10 218 81 20 24 509 84 25 16 . 944 01 1,113 11 2,178 66 5 59 138 89 294 10 281 60 15 45 147 25 1 39 8 76 347 82 13 74 15 22 73 52 37 19 239 39 54 80 852 51 4,618 22 54 84 ;i 40 APPENDIX. Amount of Cauntfj of Kent ; principal payable. Township of Camden ^30 73 •« Chatham I-IO 66 •• DjverEast 34 57 «• Harwich 395 08 " Hovird 9 22 " Raleig* . 172 60 •« Rochet.r 3 29 " Romney «7 48 •♦ Tilbury, East 327 03 ♦• Zone 200 21 County of Lambton : Township of Brooke 309 1 7 *' Dawn 94 31 " Euphemia 27 08 " Enniskillen 893 27 •' Moore 48 87 " Plympton 18'> 49 " Sombra 59 10 «• Warwick... 129 22 County of Lanark : Township of Bathurst 13 51 Beckwith 4 22 " Burgess, North 36 92 •• Dalhousie 22 42 •♦ Darling 1146 '* Drummond 28 98 •« Lanark 37 09 •• Lavant 13 02 " Montague 36 60 •• Pakenham 75 29 •• Ramsay 35 14 " Sherbrooke, North 6 86 " Sherbrookei bouth 84 33 Cownty of Leeds : Township of Bastard 2 58 " Leeds 50 41 '« Yonge 19 78 County of Lennox and Addington .• Township of Anglesea 10 03 *• Camden 15 26 ' ^ *» Kaladar 145 M ' '*» Richmond 3^7 Ooitnty c County I County Counti CoutU Ciiunt r Ooui ■Cow i^ *• - ^ • 41 APPENDIX. - Amount of principal payable. OiHinty of Lincoln : - ~ . $77 88 Township of Grimsby County of Middlesex : ^ 199 81 Township of Adelaide 100 18 •« Carradoc 72 34 •' Dorchester 34 49 " Ekfrid m 66 •• Metcalfe 6" 67 " Mosa County of Northumberland : V^ %2 Township of Alnwick ^^ B"g*>ton gQ57 " Haldimand g ^2 " Percy . County of Ontario : 215 77 Township of Mara g g^ •« Rama 2i 2I Thorah ^^ ^j " Uxbridge County of Peel : .10 4« Township of Albion Cunty of Peterborough : 2 96 Township of Belmont ^ ^g •• Douro. . j_ gQ I^«°»™«' 7900 G»l^^»y 2066 •• Harvey g g^ Methuen ^^^ ^g •« Minden 22 04 «• Otonabee ^^ " 'Smith ,. ^^ 28 »• Snowdon County of Perth : ^ g^Q g^ Township of Elma 2089 33 M Wallace ■County of Preioott : . 63 83 Township of Alfred g ^^ •' Caledonia ^^ 2g , •• FUntagenet, North ^^ ^^ ,W' Plantagenet South 4 (B.) 4 42 APPENDIX. • - Amount of County of Rmfrcw : principal payable, Townsiiip of Admaston $197 63 " Algona, North 7 22 Algona, South 99 74 Alice 3490r, Bagot 90 15 Blythfield 5 23 Bromley 293 70 '* Brougt'am 57 05 BiudenelJ 217 56 ♦• Euchar.m 6 04 Grattan 149 23 Griffith 58 03 Head 42 30 Horton 16 78 McNab lO*^ 01 Pembroke 5 5*> ' * Petawawa 21 85 Radeliffe 3 38 Ross 33 3!)' Sebastopol 50 13 Stafford 137 90 VVeatmeath 43 50 Wilberforce 222 63 County of Russell : Township of Clarence SO 67 " Cumberland 60 92 « Russell 118 96 County of Simcoe ; Township of Adjala 12132 " , Essa 135 15 " Floss 338 70 '' *• Gwillimbury, West 99 08 " Tnnisfil 8186 , •« Matchedash 24 19 , ^ V "■ Medonte 24 49 •' Mono 122 30" ' •• Mulmur 19.146 •♦ . Nottawasaga 63144 " Orillia, North 94 46 ♦* • Orillia, South 1125- Cou (<■ Coi Co Ci I- APPENDIX. ^* Amount of County of Simcoc-Continued : principal payable. Township of Ore *^* '*^ Sunnidale 500 30 •• Tay ^ ^^ •« Tecumaeth ^26 16 •• Tiny 17275 " Tossorontio ^^ ^^ Vespra 159 99 " Penetanguishene 3 23 County of Victoria : Township of Anson 2"* H Garden 510 03 Digby 13855 Eldon ''22 48 Emily 26 99 Fenelon 33 86 Laxton 48154 Lutterworth 20 09= Minden 27 31 Ops 57 86 " Snowdon ^ 27 Somervi'le 297 75 « Verulam 125 68 County of Wellington : Township of Amaranth 285 42 Arthur 555120 Eramosa ^3 42 Erin 61 '*9 •• Garafraxa 162 49 Luther 1.93288 Minto 5,09062 County of Wentworth : Township of Ancaster 15 87 •• Flamborough, East 29 04 County of Wetland : - Township of SUmford *9 31 44 APPENDIX. Amount of , „ , principal payable, <:i