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view was on the 19th February, and that Bill was before 
the Legislature several days before that date, without the 
Lieutenant-Governor having been in any way informed of it 
by his advisers. 
The Lieutenant-Governor expressed at that time to the 
Premier how much he regretted that legislation ; he repre- 
sented to him that he considered it contrary to the principles 
of law and justice ; notwithstanding that, the measure was 
carried through both Houses until adopted. 
It is true that the Premier gives in his letter, as one 
of the reasons for acting as he did, ‘ that this permission 
of using the name of the representative of the Crown 
had, besides, always been granted him by the predecessor 
of the present Lieutenant-Governor, the late lamented 
Mr. Caron.’ 
This reason cannot be one for the Lieutenant-Governor, 
for in so acting he would have abdicated his position as 
representative of the Crown, which act neither the Lieutenant- 
Governor nor the Premier could reconcile with the obligations 
of the Lieutenant-Governor towards the Crown. 
The Lieutenant-Governor regrets having to state, as he told 
the Premier, that he has not been informed, in general, in an 
explicit manner of the measures adopted by the cabinet, 
although the Lieutenant-Governor had often given the 
Premier an opportunity to do so, especially during last year. 
From time to time, since the last session of the Legislature, 
the Lieutenant-Governor has drawn the attention of the 
Premier to several subjects regarding the interests of the 
Province of Quebec, amongst others : 
Ist. The enormous expenditure occasioned by very large 
subsidies to several railways, while the Province was burdened 
with the construction of the great railway from Quebec to 
Ottawa, which should take precedence of the others; and 
this, when the state of our finances obliged us to undertake 
loans disproportioned to our revenue. 
2nd. The necessity of reducing the expenses of the Civil 
Government and of the Legislature, instead of having 
recourse to new taxes, in view of avoiding financial embarrass- 
ment, 
The Lieutenant-Governor expressed also, but with regret, 
to the Premier, that the Orders passed in Council to increase 
the salaries of Civil Service servants seemed to him inop- 
portune, at a time when the Government were negotiating 
with the Bank of Montreal a loan of half a million, with 
power to increase that loan to $1,000,000, at a rate of 
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