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w--w-__._,_v we "'""'-"eqlP'""""'" f __ -..-.------.---.--------------"-"-, _ E I bringing the matter down trom appeal be- ONTARIO LILGISLATU fl u i tore the time determined by statute . also in . ____.____ l akinglageyftho statutory limi. as 'iiii'iriii . ' . ' , e "K 1 0 heirs regarding real estate. Third Parliament-Third 398310110 1 Mr CAMERON understood it was not tho ----i----- ', desire of the young man to accept thethirty TILE PEDROGATION. ( thousand dollars; therefore ho would vote t l to. defer the matter for another year. I Leciturivs Assnntr, i might be trowise on the young man's part, The following is the conclusion of Wed- bccautie tt new Government might treat him nesday's proceedings I--. harsher than tee present one. Mr. CAMERON desired to he informed as Mr. O'DPhOGllUE desired _ to know if to the determination of the Government it !efl.nt'.i),ie? would, should we! go into the House should be adverse to the resolu- {33):} mm" to Elie young man any. 1 tion. Mr. 't0WA1'.--We would Sh ithdraw it. Several IION. MEMtIEW3-No. 'A' Mr. MACDOUOA LL (Simcoe) expressed Mr. 1.AllI)ER mid that the hon. member i himself as being perfectly free in vote on for tWawtt (Mr. o'Donoghueo could not . tLls question, as lm'had had no profess!orusl have he?" the 51'0'3Ch'55 delivered from the l dealings with the young men since the Opposition sale of the House or he arril, l _ matter had come before the Legis- mA lysve. asked the dilution. That hon. l lature. . Believing that the positions mo trtot'r had questioned Andrew Mercer, Jr., _ t . claimed by the young man Were not as to whether he had offered any hon. mum. satisfactory he withdrew from the case. The beractstrritrvration it r advocating liisaiaims Attorney-General,,otight not to have charged on the floor of the House, and such ' the young man with any guilt or crime, ootuluctheuharacterized as improper. lie which would prejudice the [louse against thir. Lauder) thought that titty thousand him. It was dusiruhlc that as this was a dollars, would be nearer to. fair amount for the case of precedent cautious steps should be 70""3 matt than thirty thousand dollars. l taken. There were two facts evident ..-- Mr. "BROOKE Man utilize . F One, that there were no legal heirs to the the young ',',,r')d,1(ud-vJl,'11'1':, 1d,t,1r/,1t i, property, and, seenixl, this young man Was port the sohrme in thetz'overinntnt. The 51121 the natural son cf Andrew Mercer. lie pro" of thirty thousand dollars at Seven per cent ceeded to enquire into the grounds on would produce $2.10,, per annum and ti . I which the Government proposed to perpctti- was a iulr income for any mud in 'Ill',' ate a relic of feudal and barbaric ages; country. ' . "I and he desired to know why this properly, I, ' . . . . " which bynllnioml right" as his,should nothe . dt, "Ulththtrmd that ttt giving the given to the young man. Petitions signed 2:, w if" 'dl" no bum mentioned the by 10,630 persons bad been prepared in two "ta," 'Ill," f hpr'HNNd co 00 more or three weeks and presented to this House . liiml l" at l, proposed .to .do for in favour of giving the whole of this pm- the i.esii, :13!!!" a ll ty. borne Itl mllld tbat perty to the natural son of Mr. Mercer. Four of 'dd cl ' 1"e'.rolyt,h,t the csiablislivuent thousand people in Toronto 5 gned the peti- den . "it; "i,re/,11"i,l a WWW?" bur.. tionsi; one thousand in the county of York; Sh 1",", ' ',' r0V1itcu to maintain them. one thousand live llilildn d in the county of t 'fl) l) it', Got'crurueut tio. more than the. t'arleton ; two thousand in South Simone ; I' '1e:r,li,1,1l, ttt who 15"" his Mm penniress? nine hundred in Notrh Simone; and other., thy-i? -(:.Vt( that the (Jove-t,met had tid I elsvtvheve. After quoting; from the evidence Mu yvuitrrtho natural son ot the deceased i taken respecting this case, he said that r. "Green. the young man was worthy .ot. con- Ai.tl MCMAHON thought the Government adoration on his own a wount. ills family ot the day had actcd fairly bv the young had also to he C msiu'rwt l, for he was thr. than, and it would he whicr for li'ilnll) actopt lather of three children. His verdict in the present offer than trust to um mvrciesot conclusion was to give. the whole of the Inothcr Governinint. proxun'ly to the young mun under proper Mr. U'll0NOGllUy, denied that he had I Loudiliom. made a charge against any bull. 2'j111.'r1',1 Mr. ItE'l'HUNh', referred to the knowledge the Home ', and he , xprtrwrl it as his helm of law titssistuttl by the decrased, Andrew that Andrew Mercer ought to have the Mercer, and thought ir was Strung") that he whoh, of the estate or none of it. If heliad _ should not have made. a will it he desired tt right to thirty thousand dollrrs he had a to leavu his forum", in his tum, unless he right to the whole of the property. It the _ labouring uudtrrivr"prgnauco to nc.lr. young man was the son of Andrew Mercer mg a will. It might be injurious to the then giro him the whole of the estate "in? young man to give him the whole of this not Iiive the son one-half the estate 'I l property; an l r who": in ten years he Wou' l . , .. . . , have tun-n ruined by then: YI ho surrouiidt-d {Mil PANT0N yy/itll, "with" rtma.tkis' bi Fht '... _ . . o the hon. inunoer M no had sd , Pl. thirty liiullaltlnl dollars were to be Upokon' but thinki: . tl , " my. given to the young mun, and surely that Was hetier than iron. t' mt halt a loat I would tr, a good start in life for a young 1iovorutneut's f 1, ' e: . "ould support the , man. He then oumciatcul the bcnetits , _ , i Tutu'. i Which would result from establishing the . Mr. I'thHIUR made a few remarks relu- t Provincial ilchrrmator.x for hallin Women, tire to the gale of a lot by Andrew Mcr- l sad it l'iuvinriul l'ye and liar Iulirtnary, The. oer, Jr. , rule of the civil. law in lim_:land was only to t Mr. MEREDITH wished to knowthe (iov- l, h. 1i,'i",ye:"We"tu ot the property to natural orninc-nt's policy if the amendment Wag ear. E c 1: turns. I tied. , , Mr. SCOTT agreed with the hon. member Mr. AOWAT replied that the Govern- tor South tiimcoe (Mr. Maulougall) that merit ecu}! only accept the scheme m itri the tiuvcrntttent did not prom)" to entituts. di else withdraw it Mid consider deal 'iullicitnitlr lilv"mt.ly with the not"; t youru man. After makin further re.. , t T math: h.- moved in It.'.,",,',)',,,,',) that the The mncndmellt Trtt8 lost on a vote of 25 following words be added immediately after 7008 and 41 naysx . the fiyutvs " 1878" in the, second line of the The Committee te?yod tho regolutiui, resolution :--" tlure and agent that portion "Id oft the Question J, nt; rccvptious, ts relates to the ainirofriiitions from the Mr. SCOTT moved in amendment, "That residue of the estate to the amount ol'$100,- While this House concurs n, that part ol 000 towards the erection of the Andrew the resolution which proposes iolive An- Here-tr live and Ear Infirmary and drew Mercer the sum of $31; Ji/It in of to the erection of the Andrew Mer.. opinion that it is not J.xiidiGri'ii dpplyuth . Jer Ontario 1lefornvatory for Females, and." tegiduo ot the estate in iho way set foit,h it: I Mr. iiUDleS explained thatthe Crown tlt? ttaid "WWW: and therefore "we i had been too hasty in the matter, and read mends that that part ot the rcuvltuion be i from the statutes to iihow that the money ttot carried out." I should remain unappropriated for ten years, so as to girl? the heirs tothe sometime toput in their claims. It seemed to him that tho Government had acted hastily in regard to