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Show 468 ACTS RELATING Part. III". the {urns to be paid for the relcafe of our ancel'tors from purgatory are debts of an- other fort; the whole of a man's el‘tate is chargeable with them. Thefe then are to be carried to his majefiy's account. Tythes too are to be carried to his account. Are the turns ariling from them to go with the other unappropriated fums and {well the civil lilt? or are they to be brought intothe exchequer and accounted for to par- Scét. VIII. TO THE COLONIES. 469 No man can judge of the propriety or impropriety of this claufe, who is not thoroughly matter of the fiate of the country, and the temper and dilpolif n of the inhabitants. It is always difficult, and often dangerous, to tranfplant in an in- flanta fyfiem of laws ellablii'hed in one country by the progrcllive experience of liament? It would be an amuling item to ages, and to impofe it on another coun- try, Where neither the cultoms nor pre- read in fome treafury account, judices, nor habits of thinking have pav- " Cafh " from a noble Canadian for one thoufand " malles which Ihould have been {aid for " his grandfather's foul. Ditto for the " foul 0f_his grandmother, &c." n Thus much for the tendernefs Ihewn by this a6: to the religious rights of the Canadians. \Vith‘ regard to their civil rights it is enacted, " that in all matters of " controverfy relative to property and ci" vil rights, refort {hall be had to the _" laws of Canada." No ed the way for its reception. \Vhether, during the many years we had been in pOIICIIiOII of Canada, the minds of the people had been prepared for the reception of the Engliih law, is a point on which parliament could reafon but imperfeétly for want data to go upon. of fuflicient Reports from the board of trade on the {late of the provinCe, re- prefentations from men in the highefl' offices in it, with plans for the form of go- vernment which was belt adapted to it H h 3 opinions |
