its illiberal charter, 50;
bill to amend it defeated, 52;
passed, 56, 163;
reorganized and becomes University of New Brunswick, 190

Kinnear, Hon. William B., solicitor-general, 116

L

Legislature of New Brunswick, called together in 1866, 256;
its session of 1867, 266

Leonard, Samuel, 147

_Loyalist_, newspaper, its proprietors arrested, 75 (note)

M

Macdonald, Sir John A., chairman of the confederation delegation, 263;
forms the first Dominion cabinet, 270

McClelan, Hon. A. R., chief commissioner of public works, 247;
reelected for Albert County, 249

McGee, Thomas D'Arcy, favours confederation, 207;
lectures in St. John, 207;
brings a party to visit the Maritime Provinces, 209

McMillan, Hon. John, surveyor-general, elected for Restigouche, 231;
becomes postmaster-general, 247

McPhelim, Francis, postmaster-general, 183

Manners-Sutton, Hon. H. T., lieutenant-governor of New Brunswick,
dissolves the House of Assembly, 180

Maritime union movement, 211-13;
the Charlottetown conference, 215

Marriage laws, 14, 15

Meade, General, 249

Metcalfe, Sir Charles, governor-general of Canada, 74;
his unconstitutional stand, 74;
his views approved by the New Brunswick assembly, 74

Mitchell, Hon. Peter, member of the legislative council, 246;
supports confederation, 246;
called on to form a government, 246;
forms the Mitchell-Wilmot government, 247;
confederation delegate to England, 262;
becomes minister of marine, 271

Monck, Viscount, governor-general of Canada, 265

Money grants, initiation of, 48

Montgomery, John, enters the government, 72;
surveyor-general, 183

Morgan, Elizabeth, great grandmother of Sir Leonard Tilley, 145

N

Needham, W. H., member for York, 152;
his ability and character, 154;
opposes confederation, 228

Newcastle, Duke of, colonial secretary, 197

O

Odell, Hon. William Franklin, death of, 75

Odell, Hon. William H., postmaster-general, 233, 234

Office, tenure of, 57;
Lord John Russell's despatch, 57;
resolution of assembly thereon, 60

P

Palmerston, Lord, his government in office during confederation
negotiations, 206

Parker, Hon. Robert, becomes chief-justice, 235

Parliament of Canada, its first meeting, 273

Partelow, Hon. John R., member for St. John County, 65;
on money appropriations, 93;
becomes provi