The Seventh Report from the Select Committee of the House of Assembly of Upper Canada on Grievances: To Whom Were Referred Lord Viscount Goderich's Despatch to His Excellency Sir John Colborne, of the 8th November, 1832. To which is Added, the Report from the Same Committee, on the Petition of William Forsyth ...

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Página xlvii - I particularly recommend to you to explain that this Province is singularly blessed, not with a mutilated Constitution, but with a Constitution which has stood the test of experience, and is the very image and transcript of that of Great Britain...
Página 272 - ... for contributing their proportion to the common defence, (such proportion to be raised under the authority of the general court, or general assembly, of such province or colony, and disposable by parliament,) and shall engage to make provision also for the support of the civil government, and the administration of justice...
Página xxxix - ... people four thousand miles off ; and being an impracticable system, felt to be intolerable by those for whose good it was professedly intended, it ought to be abolished, and the domestic institutions of the Province so improved and administered by the local authorities as to render the people happy and contented.
Página xxxix - But the laws of nature do not, and those of men ought not, longer to doom this remnant of the new world to exhibit this invidious and humiliating comparison. The affairs of this country have been ever against the spirit of the Constitutional Act, subjected in the most injurious manner to the interferences and interdictions of a succession of Colonial Ministers in England who have never visited the country, and can never possibly become acquainted with the state of parties, or the conduct of public...
Página 275 - An Act to amend and extend the Provisions of an Act passed in the Third Year of the Reign of King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for incorporating the Warrington Gaslight Company.
Página 190 - In Witness whereof the Parties to these Presents have interchangeably set their hands and seals the Day and year first above written.
Página 201 - Commons, shall accept of any office from the crown, during such time as he shall continue a member, his election shall be, and is hereby declared to be void, and a new writ shall issue for a new election, as if such person so accepting was naturally dead. Nevertheless such person shall be capable of being again elected, as if his place had not become void as aforesaid.

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