PETITION OF INHABITANTS OF MARLBOROUGH RELATIVE TO THE OFFICES OF SUPERINTENDENT AND COMMISSIONER OF CROWN LANDS.

Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1861 Session I, G-04

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PETITION OF INHABITANTS OF MARLBOROUGH RELATIVE TO THE OFFICES OF SUPERINTENDENT AND COMMISSIONER OF CROWN LANDS.

ORDERED TO BE PRINTED, SEPTEMBER 3kd, 1861.

PETITION OF INHABITANTS OF MARLBOROUGH

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To the Honourable the House of Representatives, in Parliament assembled. The Petition of the undersigned .Inhabitants of the Province of Marlborouah: —- o Humbly Sheweth- — That your Petitioners have observed with surprise and indignation, that a Petition has been presented requesting your Honourable House to call upon the Executive of the Colony to appoint a Commissioner of Crown Lands for this Province other than the Superintendent of the said Province. That the said Petition contains the following allegations:— Ist, That the union of Offices of Superintendent and Commissioner in one person, is manifestly contrary to law and detrimental to the interests of the Province. 2nd. That not a few thousand pounds sterling have been lost to this Province during the last twelve months, in having had much of its superior lands sold at the upset price of the worst of their respective classes. That your Petitioners feel assured that no such loss has accrued to this Province, or is likely to be sustained by it from the union of the two Offices in the person of the present Superintendent. That your Petitioners would respectfully submit that the union of the two Offices having' received the sanction of the Executive has been hitherto found to work well, and until it can be shown that any real loss or inconvenience has been caused to individuals or the Province by such union, it would be manifestly unjust to take the course prayed for, as such a course would necessarily tend to cast supicion on those who* have hitherto performed their duties in a manner that meets with the entire approval of your Petitioners. Your Petitioners therefore respectfully request your Honourable House to initiate the most full and serching enquiry into the truth of these allegations- before proceeding to take any action in .accordancewith the Prayer ot the Petition containing the same. And your Petitioners will ever pray, &c, &c. A. P. Seymour, M.P.C. Isaac G-ifford, Cyrus Goulter, M.P.C. John T. Hughes Joseph Ward, M.P.C. J. S. Ball, John Godfery, M.P.C. James Mudford, Edward Fearon, A. Vaughen, Edward C. Morgan,, W. Moore, John Smith, John Ward, ' Samuel Eves, John Hilbourne, . C. Eves, W. C. Parsons John Newman, W. S. Leicester Joe. Mitchel, G. Story W. Biackmore. H. Godfrey John Fuller, Thomas Max ted, D. Wilson, John McLoughlan, G. Gougle, Alfred Sparks, C. Cowrt, William Robinson, John Levys, Robert Robinson, J. Geard, T. M. Humffreys, T. W. Barker, William Robinson, John Smith, G. Robinson, J. A. R. Greeusil, G. Arber, Samuel Buckmau, C. Palmer, W. Pipe, William Thomson, Frederick A. Slow, John Borroughs, William Ockley, Donald McPhersou, E. W. Pasley, Frank V. Bell, R. C. Pasley, John Tindall, J. R. Gordon, W. Thompson, Joseph Taylor, John Kennedy, C. H. Jennings, , James Cotter, John Collyer,' William Whitehouse,. Francis J. BlundeH, John Adams, R. B. Leatham, -101111 Jarman John Robt. Shephard, Joseph Hannon, William Allinson, John Murray, Thomas Carter, William Hall, i

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James Carter, John Thompson, Joseph Carter, > George Watson, C. F. Watts, Robert Guest, B. Maxted, John Griffith, J. Bonnington, William Smith W. Baillie, J. F. Hathaway, T. G. Maxted, • T. W. Downes, J.P. James McKinley, James Kilgour, M.D. W. Blaymiers, James Mcßeth, William Hadfield, Phillip Bevan, Henry Harris, William Freeth, Adam Jackson, Henry Peterson, Cornelius Murphy, James Fuller, W. A. Smith, John Walker, Thomas King Smith, Thomas Evenett, William Craig, Arthur Beauchamp, Nicholas Kelly, William Wilford, Thomas Jones, James Williams, William Bright, Isaiah Parker, G. H. Clark, Rich. N. Samkey, Charles Evans, . William Crowther, Edward Caldwell, Joseph Taylor, John Edwards, William Taylor J. W. Callcott, William Beeres, J. W. Neale, John Procter, E. W. Clemens, John R. Hornby, David Greig, George Petherick, Henry Bright, Thomas Freeland, John Brooks, Frederick Hebberly, James Boon, George James, Frederick Hill, James Avis, Thomas Dockery, Henry Godsiff, William Pugh, David Lloyd, Richard March,- . Donald McCormick, Robert Carver, Robert Blaymires, B. S. H. Broughton, John Cawt, John Kenyon, Clement Broughton, William Overend, Alfred Amos, C. H. Morgan, James Pickering, G. Booth, William Wells, R. J. Wortley, Donald Campbell, T. G. Baillie, Charles Cass, J. Kennedy, John Kewly, George Beere, John Larey, David Boyes, Thos. Stickel, Godfry Russell, Alex. Smith, H. Bonnington, S. Wolf, William Neal, Jacob Essen, Evan Jones, Richard H. Toll, Patrick Dunn, Cordock Beauchamp, Walter Savery James Jackson, Samuel Harris, William Keenan, Alfred Bragg, John Keenan, Nathaniel Bragg, William Keenan, junr, Richard Bragg, J. H. Burns, Thomas Philpotts, Phillip Himes, William Jeifery, Daniel Love, John Allen, Daniel Harrison, John J. White, James Jackson, MathewJas. Goodman, Peter Brown, Robert Beauchamp, Hector Martin, John Lingar Neeve, George Kite, George Hainbrook, Charles Lucas, T. J. Bowden, John Hipalight J. N. Flood, Thomas Thorns, F. O. Western, James Martin, John Smith, Joseph Bolter J. Ewart, Isaac Wallace, John Blaymires, J. J. Bowden, James Twiddale, C. J. Sawyer, William Marsh,

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RELATIVE TO COMMISSIONER OF CROWN LANDS.

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J. A. Mapplesden, S. Climo, Christopher Thompson, T. Herford, T. Matterson, C. Masters, W. Whitelock, B. Herford, Thomas Watts, Simon Moor, John Peek, J. Johnson, Philip Spowart, W. Hinds, Thomas Webster, C. Rumble, William Taylor, W. Tannahill, Frederick Martello, David Bell, T. R. Hackett, H. Hill, William Seller, John F. Bashford, James Alexander, Wm. Membery, T. W. Millington, James Wilson, John Nic. Humphries, James Bashford, Courtnay Kenny, J.P. John Honeywell, Joseph Blaymiers, . Fred. Smyth, Joseph Clapham, James Powick, John Somers, Robert Fiddler, Henry Clyne, Henry Humphrey, William Cullen, Thomas Bain, Joe Firth, Robert Bennett, William Tarrent, E. Bennett,John Masters, George Freeman, James Gullery, J. Hambrook, Peter Doreen, senr. Fred. Sejunta, Peter Doreen, junr. Joseph Law, Hugh Cutherbertson, ' George Sanders, William Esson, William Strachen, Patrick McMahon, Henry Cook, George Hearn, Daniel G. Boyd, George McEwen, John Miller, Edmund Mudgeway, William Gary, William Coleman, Soloman Holroyd, James Thomas, Isaac Simson, Robert Thompson, James A. Henderson, W. Haynes, John Jones, C. Young, William Crisp, James Climo, S. Oldman, John Daly, Edwin Gear, W. Brydon, Howard Lakeman, John Gilson, Arch. H. Lakeman, Charles Maidment, Isaac Jenkin, John 0. Burton, Thomas Andrew, Charles A. Wylie, ' John Armstrong, John Barton, Robert Caruwall,

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PETITION OF INHABITANTS OF MARLBOROUGH, &c.