THE HUNDREDS REGULATION ACT DEBATE.

Evening Star, Volume VII, Issue 2063, 15 December 1869, Page 2

THE HUNDREDS REGULATION ACT DEBATE.

(To the Editor of the Evening Star.)

Sir, —During the last session of the Provincial Council a series of resolutions was passed recommending certain new Hundreds, and many were the arguments employed to show the very urgent necessity of their proclamation. Can you tell me who is to blame that these resolutions have been, after all, allowed to remain a dead letter ? We have heard a good deal of late about the “protest of the"Executive Government of the Province,” &c,, from which most people inferred that the Executive ns a whole (or nearly so) were responsible for the action taken. But what are the facts as they have now transpired ? Why —Ist. That the General Assembly placed in the hands of the Executive the means of carrying the Council's resolutions into effect. 2nd. That the Supenhiendeiit (the elected representative of the people of the Province as a whole) was willing and anxious to act upon them. 3rd. That the Provincial Solicitor and the Provincial Treasurer (the law and the purse) were also anxious and willing to do the same. 4th. That the whole thing has been defeated, and the expressed desire of the Council ignored by the unseemly oppos tion of the Secretary for Laud and Works, backed up by three “ non-official members.” Truly this is a strange way of showing ‘ ‘ respect for Provincial institutions,” and illustrating respect for the expressed will of the Provincial Council, as embodied in its resolutions.—Yours, &c,, A Settler. December 15, 1869.