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Pagina 338 - Members thereof, respectively, shall hold, enjoy and exercise such and the like privileges, immunities and powers as at the time of the passing of the British North America Act, 1867, were held, enjoyed and exercised by the Commons House of Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland...
Pagina 371 - Why then, take no note of him, but let him go ; and presently call the rest of the watch together, and thank God you are rid of a knave.
Pagina 281 - Be as lavish," said the New Zealand Company, in one of their letters to Lord Stanley, " be as lavish as you please of the ordinary materials of European barter : give clothing, arms, ammunition, tools, and tobacco, and what beyond the consumption of the day can you really give of value to the man whom you do not find possessed, and cannot at once endow, with a gift of foresight? Give more, and you only waste the surplus. And when the blanket is worn out, the second-rate finery turned to rags, the...
Pagina 24 - ... and prepare abstracts of the same, in such form and manner as shall appear to them best suited to convey to the House all requisite information respecting their contents...
Pagina 89 - Littleton having moved to bring in a Bill to Consolidate and Amend the Laws relating to the Payment of Wages in Goods, which passed by a majority of one hundred and forty.
Pagina 281 - ... more, and you only waste the surplus. And when the blanket is worn out, the second-rate finery turned to rags, the gun burst, the ammunition expended, the tool broken, and the drug has produced its hour of intoxication, at the end of a year or two, or even ten, what better is the wild man for your gift? At the end of the short period of enjoyment he and his race are beggars, amid the wealth that has grown out of their possessions ; doomed, after a brief period of toil for the intruder, and of...
Pagina 187 - A Senator shall not be capable of being elected or of sitting or voting as a Member of the House of Commons.
Pagina 139 - House, in a printed form ; and would now move for leave to bring in a bill " to consolidate and amend the laws relating to the impanelling of Juries.
Pagina 338 - All bills for appropriating any part of the revenue of Victoria, and for imposing any duty, rate, tax, rent, return, or impost shall originate in the Assembly, and may be rejected but not altered by the Council.
Pagina 20 - Glasgow, who had been afterward released, the bill was then read a second time, and ordered to be committed to-morrow.

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