y probable, although Mr. Gourlay, in his account of Canada,
gives two fourth Sessions to the third Parliament, and afterwards
complains that the business of the first Session of the sixth
Provincial Parliament was nowhere to be found.

Parliament next assembled on the 1st of February, 1804. Sedition was
provided against; persons who should seduce soldiers into desertion
were to be exemplarily punished; fees, costs, and charges were to be
regulated by the Court of Kings Bench; the swine Act was amended, so
that sheep might run at large, and rams only be restrained between the
1st December and 20th December; L300 was appropriated to the printing
of all the Acts of the Province, and L80 a year was allowed for the
annual printing of the laws, which were to be distributed among members
of Parliament, judges, and militia officers; L100 was granted for the
building of bridges and repairing old roads and laying out new ones;
the Customs Act was explained; L175 was granted for the purchase of the
Statute Laws of England; L400 per annum was granted to be applied in
the erection of Parliament Buildings; L303 11s. 10-1/2d. was voted for
the clerks and officers of the Parliament, including stationary, and to
the government commissioners appointed to adopt means to encourage the
growth of hemp a sum of L1,000 was granted. The Session of the fourth
Parliament, next bent on the despatch of business, came together on the
1st February, 1805. It altered the time of issuing tavern and still
licenses; afforded relief to heirs or devizees of the nominees of the
Crown, entitled to claim lands in cases where no patent had issued for
such lands; regulated the trial of contested elections; continued the
Duty-Commissioners Act for four years; altered certain parts of the
Newcastle-District administration of justice Bill; made provision for
the further appointment of parish and town officers; relieved insolvent
debtors, by an Act which enabled a debtor in prison to receive five
shillings weekly from his creditor during his detention, if the
prisoner were not worth five pounds, worthlessness being, in this
instance, to a man's advantage; the curing, packing and inspection of
pork was regulated by the appointment of inspectors, whose fees were to
be one shilling and six pence per barrel, exclusive of cooperage, with
six pence a mile to the Inspector, for every mile he had to travel; L45
9s. 8d., advanced by His Majesty, through the Lieutenant Governo