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Parliament met, and seven Acts received the gubernatorial assent. Among
other things, the boundary lines of the different townships were to be
determined, the ministers of the Church of Scotland, Lutherans or
Calvinists, were authorized to celebrate marriage; and the method of
performing statute labor on the roads was altered.

The fourth and last Session of this second Parliament of Upper Canada
met at York, on the 12th June, 1799, and six Acts were assented to,
among which was one providing for the education and support of orphan
children; and another enabling persons holding the office of Registrar
to be elected members of the House of Assembly, a member of which body
accepting the office to vacate his seat, with the privilege, however,
of being re-elected.

On the 17th August, 1799, General Hunter appeared and assumed the
Lieutenant Governorship to which he had been appointed by the King. He
was not, however, simply Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada; but also
the Lieutenant, General commanding-in-chief, in both of the Canadas. He
took possession of the Government of Upper Canada about a fortnight
after the general government of British North America had been
entrusted to His Excellency Robert Shore Milnes, Esquire. The
Lieutenant General was well advanced in years. He had seen fifty-three
summers, and it was not to be expected that his previous education and
habits would give way to the new ideas of younger men in a new country.
General Hunter was, nevertheless, connected with a highly talented
family, his brother being the celebrated Dr. Hunter of London, and his
talents for government were possibly better than the bills passed
during his reign would indicate. There was, indeed, little, if any,
advance in legislation. The Acts of former Sessions, relative to
duties, the administration of justice, and to the militia, were patched
and repatched, made more stringent, less liberal, and more complicated.
In the first Session of the third Parliament, which met at York, on the
2nd June, 1800, six Acts of revival, regulation, or amendment were
assented to, one of which, making a temporary provision for the
regulation of trade between Upper Canada and the United States,
established ports of entry. The second Session of the third Parliament
was held on the 28th of May, 1801, at the now established capital. The
Parliament, as usual, was recommended to look after the King's enemies,
the militia, the Quarter Sessions, the