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Excerpt from Journals of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, Vol. 2: From November 3, 1868, to January 23, 1869, Both Days Inclusive, in the Thirty-Second Year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lady Queen Victoria, Being the Second Session of the First Parliament of Ontario, Session 1868-9 This being the first day of the Second Session of the first Parliament of the Province of Ontario, His Excellency William Pearce Howland, C.B., Lieutenant-Governor, having taken his seat, was pleased to open the Session by the following gracious Speech: Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the Legislative Assembly: It affords me sincere gratification to meet you for the first time, when you are about to enter on the consideration of numerous measures affecting the public interest, of which, as the representatives of the people, you are the guardians; and in thus assembling you, I trust ] have selected that season of the year in which you can most conveniently be spared from your various avocations. I have derived the liveliest satisfaction from my visit to the Provincial Exhibition, at Hamilton, where the display of the products of the soil gave token of its increased productiveness, and of the unwearied industry of the farming population, while the superior character of the live stock testified to the advanced state of our husbandry, and reflected the highest credit upon the enterprise of the people. I was gratified to observe the many proofs of the skill of our artisans and manufacturers, and the ingenuity applied to those improvements in machinery and implements by which manual labor is diminished and at the same time rendered more productive. And it was an additional pleasure to note, besides those fruits of mechanical skill, such a representation of the more cultivated arts as gave promise of the noblest achievements in time to come. The spectacle, altogether, clearly indicated a diffusion of individual wealth, and a general state of advancement and prosperity, in marked contrast with the condition of the country as I recollect it within the past quarter of a century. I regret that circumstances, which could not well be controlled, have thus far prevented the arbitrators appointed to adjust the differences between this Province and that of Quebec, in respect to certain debts and assets to be apportioned between them, from entering on the task assigned to them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
