pose to do so in a subsequent volume of this work. A brief outline of them may be desirable here, as the acts may not be published for some time.

General Assembly, page 63.-A bill increasing the number of members for the county of Cape Breton, from 2 to 3, and giving one member each, to the townships of Sydney and Arichat, in that county, has passed the council and assembly, and will probably become a law.

P. 173. Licensed houses.-The act of 1828, mentioned in the note to p. 173, is no longer in force. The new. act which has now passed the house regulates licenses to sell liquor, as follows, viz: In Halifax, there is to be but one description of license, authorizing liquor to be retailed down to the smallest quantities, and to be paid for it annually & £10. The sessions are authorized in their discretion to grant tavern licenses to retail to country markets, in Halifax, at £3 per annum. Merchants are not at liberty to sell less than a whole package or cask of liquors as imported, unless they pay for retail licenses. In the country, tavern licenses to retail to be, as under the old regulations, at £3 per annum. Shop licenses in the country to be £5 per annum, but the holder of them is not at liberty to sell any quantity below a quart.

Pages 199, 206. Common Schools.-A new bill has passed the house, which again grants £4000 a year, for 3 ensuing years, subdivided among the counties exactly as was done by the act of 1828. (See p. 206.) It re-enacts also, as I understand, the regulations and provisions of the act of 1828, with little or no variation. It adds to these a provisions for Grammar Schools; by which every school, district, that voluntarily raises a sum of £25, (beyond the provision for its common school,) for the purpose of a grammar school, in connection with the common school, is entitled to receive £25 provincial aid for the grammar school, besides the aid to its common school.This is restricted however, to three such grammar schools in each county and district. The allowance in aid of these grammar schools is not to be deducted from the £4000.

Page 204. Academy at Pictou.-The questions "long" agitated respecting this seminary, have been happily set at rest, by a bill which has just passed both houses. It grants L.400 per annum, from 1832 to 1842, inclusive, to support the Academy. All religious tests and distinctions respecting the trustees, teachers, &c. are repealed. Of the old trustees, 7 are to remain in office, of whom Dr. M'Culloch, the founder of the institution is to be one.

Those who are to go out of office are to be fixed by the heretofore trustees, and they are to be considered honorary trustees. The governor is to name 4 new trustees; the bill appoints the Rev. Mr. Fraser, R. C. Bishop of Tanen, V. A. of this province, to be also a trustee; the 7 old and 5 new trustees to manage the institution. In case of a vacancy, the board are to nominate a new member, but the approbation and final appointment, in case of difference, is to rest with the governor. Dr. M'Culloch is to have L.250 per annum salary, and remain chief professor. No theological class is to be taught in the academy. grammar school is also to be provided for out of the funds of the institution; in aid of which object, the house have granted the trustees at present the sum of L.400. These acts evince a greater attachment to education in the people of N. S. than has been manifested at any former period, and we may hope that this the dawning of a more enlightened system. A proposal to unite the Halifax and Windsor Colleges is before the Assembly.

Page 208. Quarantine.-From fears respecting the cholera, crossing the Atlantic, measures are before the assembly on this head. The provincial laws already enacted seem sufficient, if duly enforced, for all purposes of the kind, but the legislature has not yet decided whether they will add any new regulations.

A bill has passed compelling all persons selling goods by auction to take out an annual license, paying L.20 annum for it.

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There were one or two additional articles intended to be put in this appendix; but as their insertion would have caused a considerable delay in the appearance of this volume, I have postponed them to the next.

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ERRATA.-Page 1, line 3, for are read is. P. 4, line 16, for Viners' read Viner's. P. 7, line 27, for gae read age. P. 29, line 15, for settiements read settlements. P. 51, line 14, for polic read policy. P. 54, line 6, for seamen read seaman. P. 66, line 22, dele of house.' P. 69, line 28, for take read takes. P. 71, line 21, for title of deeds read title deeds. P. 84, line 22, for house read throne. P. 85, line 24, dele took. P. 148, line 15, dele the. P. 123, line 3, for judicia read judicial. P. 134, for p. 34, read 134. P. 151, line 3, for preservatiou read preservation. P. 151, line 32, for find read fine. P. 161, line 11, for o read of. P. 179, line 9, for orther read other.

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