Lord Durhams Report On the Affairs of British North America volume 1
Lord Durhams Report On the Affairs of British North America volume 1
John George Lambton Durham
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received the Assistant Commissioners' Report, when lie wrote his own. In their Preliminary Report the Assistant Com- missioners record that ' there is no such thing as systematized local self-government in Lower Canada' (Appendix C, iii. 139) ; and the paragraph in their General Report, headed ' Existing Means for Local Self-Go vernment in Lower Canada', be- gins with the statement that ' The only machinery for the working of a plan of municipal government in the province is to be found under t...he operation of the road law and collateral enactments ' (Appen- dix C, iii. 227). In reference to the same province, Lord Durham writes of ' the utter want of muni- cipal institutions giving the people any control over their local affairs ' (ii. 113). Municipal corpora- tions had come into existence in Quebec and Montreal in 1832, in pursuance of Acts passed in the previous year, but they went out of existence again in 1836, in consequence of the temporary Acts under which they had been created not being renewed by the cross-grained Assembly of Lower Canada; and Lord Durham tells us, that he found it necessary to organize police forces for the two cities (ii.
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