ers from the Lower Province, to regulate
the duties on commodities, passing from one Province to the other; a
fund for paying the salaries of the officers of the Legislative
Council, and for defraying the contingent expenses thereof, by a duty
of four pence a gallon on Madeira, and two pence on all other wines
imported into the Province was established; the destruction of wolves
and bears was encouraged by a reward of twenty shillings for a wolf's
head, and of ten shillings for a bear's head; returning officers were
appointed for the several counties; and a further fund for the payment
of the House of Assembly and its officers was created, by an
"additional" duty of twenty shillings to be levied on all licenses for
the retail of wines or spirituous liquors. In the third Session of the
Parliament, convened on the 2nd June, 1794, an Act was passed for the
regulation of juries; a Superior Court of Civil and Criminal
Jurisdiction was established, and a Court of Appeal regulated; a Court
was established for the cognizance of small causes in every district;
the Lieutenant Governor was empowered to license practitioners in the
law; fines and forfeitures reserved to His Majesty for the use of the
Province were to be accounted for; the Assessment Act for the payment
of wages to the Assembly was amended; the militia was further
regulated; horned cattle, horses, sheep, and swine were not to run at
large; the Gaols and Court Houses Act was amended; a duty of one
shilling and three pence per gallon was laid upon stills, and the
manner of licensing public houses was regulated.

The Fourth Session of the First Parliament of Upper Canada having met
for the despatch of business, on the 6th July, 1795, the practice of
physic and surgery was regulated; an Act was passed to ascertain the
eligibility of persons to be returned to the House of Assembly; the
agreement between Upper Canada and Lower Canada, by which the latter
were to collect all the duties on goods, wares and merchandize arriving
at Quebec, giving the former one eighth of their nett produce, was
ratified, approved, and confirmed; the Superior Court Act of the
previous Session was amended and explained; and Registry Offices were
established for the enregistering of deeds, lands and tenements. There
were no private Bills. The measures for Parliamentary consideration
were all of a public nature, and the legislation was eminently
judicious and peremptory. Mr. Attorney General Whit