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the subject with a view to ascertain whether any legislation 
was Had during the last session of the General Assembly in 
regard to c. 69 of 1882, and a reply had been received from 
the Lieutenant-Governor enclosing a memorandum of his 
Executive Council passed in a Council on the 30th January 
ult, stating that no amendment has been made in the Act nor 
is it in contemplation to make any amendment thereto. 
“That there is no object any longer deferring action in 
this matter. 
“The Minister recommends that under these circumstances, 
and for the reasons communicated in the first mentioned 
report, that the Act of the General Assembly of the Province 
of New Brunswick, passed in the year 1882, c. 69, and 
entitled ‘an Act to incorporate the Fredericton and St Mary's 
Bridge Company’ be disallowed ; the Committee advise that 
the Act be disallowed accordingly.” 
The power of disallowance has been exercised in a Bills 
comparatively small number of cases, Of the 6000 Acts a 
passed by the provincial legislatures up to 1882 only 33 have lowed: 
been disallowed, viz. in Ontario 5, Quebec 2, Nova Scotia 5, 
Manitoba 7, British Columbia 12° That the Dominion 
government are conscious that the power of disallowance 
ought to be exercised with great care and caution is 
evidenced by the report of the Privy Council on the dis- 
allowance of certain Acts of Manitoba in 1885. 
“The Committee, whilst concurring in the report of the 
Minister of Justice and humbly advising your Excellency to 
disallow each and every of the said Acts, desire to record the 
expression of their constant anxiety that the action of the 
legislatures of the several provinces of the Dominion should 
be interfered with under the power of disallowance reserved 
to your Excellency in Council by the British North America 
Act 1867 as seldom as possible: but that, as in the case 
of these Acts, the declared policy of parliament adopted for 
1 Can. Sess. Pap. 1882, No. 141.