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'owed to take alfidavits anywhere. Mr. CURRIE thought an individual who was a fit and proper person to act is a Commissioner in one couniy was an squaily fit aud proper person to act in another, -- lHe asked that the Biil should be ceforred to a Select Committeo, Mr. FRASER said the strong argument in favour of the present system was that it afforded security that any declaration or eafidavit that was madeo bhad been taken before a properly constituted ofticer. 'The signature of & COmmissioner was generally well known in ;he locality in which he resided, and if the law were changed in the manner PproP¢ged there would be no guaran. tes that tl.g aflidavit or declaration was properiy .us's, or, indeed, made at all, Mr. CURRIE, on the sugrzestion of the hou. Attorney.--General, would cons=nt to the withdrawal of the Bill. . LICENSE COMMISSTONERS, Mr. MERZEDITH moved the second read. Ing of the Bill to amend the Municipal Act, He said that in proposing to amend the iaw by prov/" _ that ao Licengo Commissionc® 4, Anst should be eligible for a seat in s municipai Council, he was actuated by a Gesire to relicve the Government from their prescuag posivion us they Lhad always de. clared it to be their policy not to allow the same inrdividual to occupy both positions. Mr. MOWAT asked that the Bill be with. drawn. 57 llir. MERZDLIH saw no necessity for the Bill. . Mr. MOWAT said the only objection to a Commissioner or License Iuspector sitting in a municipal Councit was the undqe in-- iluence he might bpe able to exert for his own election, The Government had uIWpys been vory emphatic iu discountenancing such electrons. Mr. MOWAT said in that case the election was by acclamation, _ He saw no objecton to any person holding & municipal office, after his appointment as Commissioner or Inspector. -- Out of upwards of two hundrgd and fifty Commissioners and ninety In-- spectors he was aware of only some five or six who occupied seats in municipal Coun-- cils. Hedid not, however, object to the matter being regulated by law. Ho sup-- posed the hon,. member did not propose to make the Bill rotrospective. Mr, MEREDITH said he did not. Mr, MOWAT said in that case he would assent to the second reading of the Bill. Mr, MEREDITMA--Ezxzcept in South Ox«-- ford, AMr. CREIGHTON thought the hon. Attorney--General was mistaken in his statement that rery few Inspectors or Com-- missioners . bheld municipal offices, as several instances had _ come _ under his own notice, His hon. friend had also forgotten that the municipal elec-- tions were held annually, and that if mem. bers of Councils occupied a position on the license board they would be apt to pave their way tor re--eiection by means of the influence they thus acquired. Several hon, members teslified to the fact that in their ridings gentlemen combined the positions of license inspector or com-- missioner with a seat at the municipal Council, to the satisfaction of the people. Mr, FLESHER said that he had called the attention of the Provincial Secretary last session to the fact that one ot the license commissioners in his riding held a seat in the municipal Council, and ho had understood the Provincial Secretary to say then that such appointments would not be made in the future, Notwithstanding that, the same gentloman still occupied both positions,. The Bill was read a sccond time and referred to a Select Comuittce, THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO, Mr. SCOTT moved the second reading of the Bill to amend the Act respecting the income and property of the University of Toronto, University Collego, and Upper Canads College,. The Bill proposed to add to the 18th section of the University Act a Mr, HARDYisaid that probably the diffi-- culty would be met by the Bill proposed by the hon. member for London. Mr, CLARKE (Norfolk) would like to see a provision added which would render persons engaged iu the liquor trafiic in-- eligible to sit on license boards. clause providing that any appropriation of the endowment fund of the Univer-- sity for permaneunt purposes should first _ receive tho _ sanction of the Legislature, The large appropriation that had been made for permanent repairs upon the Upper Canada College building i had been made by the Lieutenant.Governor in Council without the opportunity having been taken of consulling the Legislature on the matter, Such a course was in op-- position to the principles so strongly up. held by hon. gentlemen opposite when they opposed the railway policy of Mr. Sandfield Macdonald. Mr. CROOKS did not intend to offer any opposition to the principles contained in the Bill. The course the Government had adopted in the appropriation referred to was the one that had always been followed by this and every preceding Government. The foundation of the endowment hafi been laid in 1798, when the Iinperial Parliament set apart a large arem ot land for the pur-- pose of promoting higher education, The management of the funds accruing from the endowment was, however, until 1853 very faulty, and in that year an Act was passed by which provision was mada for its better control. Since that year it would be found that the Lieutenant. Governor in Council had assumed the right to deal with the endowment, Strong re-- l presentations had been made to the Gov-- ernment that the accommodation afforded . by Upper Canada College was not at all adequate, and that its interests were being sacrificed and prejudiced by the condition of the buildings, |The Government had be-- ' lieved that they were justified in granting an Order in Council by which the accom-- _ modation of the Callege could be increased, ' and the work had been done at a very low price in consequence of the cheapuess of labour and material, The result of the im. provements made under that Order in Coun-- _ cil had been to give Upper Canada College for the first time suflicient school room and appliances for the pupils in attendance,. Tnere was nothing in the exercise ot the powers vested in the Government by the Act of 1853 that could be complain--. ed of, and at the same time, tho principle eMpuci¥#ted by the hou, member who had ! the pc he Bill was entirely the result of \ purtyplitical education the Conservative "ha hbhad been receiving at the hands of '~ -- _ Reformers. _ He congratulated hon, gentlemen opposite upon their having learned the lessons which they on that side ?'l the House were trom time to time giving iutti,. (Hear, hear, sad laughter.) He would call s&;ention to the surprisingly large num}y,cr of graduates who bhad issued f'.°"' the University, as showing the effi-- clenCy _ rtnat institution. Of late years it had tained a number of feeders in the Hi schools and other institutions, and ' _.sult bad been that no less than one buw tred and twenty.nine students had in July last matriculated in the Facuity of Arts, one hundred and eight of whom came from the High Schools. Mr, MONK thought the present system was unjust, in that it forced th8 county to pay the expenses of inquests held in cities. The Bill now submitted provided that the order for the costs should be made out upon either the City or the County Treasurer, ac-- CORONERS, Mr, MONK moved the second reading of the Bill to amend the Act relating to Coroners. The Bill was read a second time, and referred to a Select Committee, composed of Messrs, Crooks, Morris, Meredith, De-- roche, Scott, Wilson, Long, and Harcourt. Mr. SCOTT--How many came ifjrom Upper Canada College ? Mr. CROOKS said that ten had come from there, 'The Senate, instead of, as formeriy, being composed of heterogeneous and an-- tagonistic elemenits, was now a well. organized body,exercising their powers very satisfactorily . 'There were connected with it some ofthe most distinguished men in the Province, and its constitution gave a full opportunity of putting the endowment to the best purpose. They had now a system which thoroughly remedied the de-- fects in the former mode of. managing the financial affairs of the University, _ There were proper checks upon the expenditure, and the disposition of the endowment was thoroughly under control, He had much pleasure in supporting the socond reading of the Bill. »