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tion, exception, reason, plea, or opposition should avail to justify any of the municipalities or corporations in refusing to sign, execute, and deliver to the treasurer of the Province its debentures, appropriated to the construction of the road, as soon as the Lieuteiiant-Governor in Council should have declared that the debentures might be exacted. As if these provisions were not sufficiently stringent, it was further enacted that, in the event of a municipality or corporation refusing to pay its subscripsions, or to sign and execute its debentures, the mayor or warden should be vested with authority to sign and execute them without the consent of the municipal Council; and should the mayor or warden decline to act, the Government could proceed to appoint a syndic with power to issue debentures in the name of the municipality for the amount of its subscription. When the contents of this Bill came to the knowledge of the Lieutenant-Governor he expressed great astonishment and disapproval, and it was in resisting its adoption that he found himself at variance with his advisers. M. de Boucherville said that the measure had the sanction of the majority of the people's representatives. The Lieutenant-Governor took the ground that in his opinion the majority did not reflect the views of the people on that subject. He positively refused to accept their verdict, and asked M. de Boucherville to name his successor. This M. de Boucherville declined to do, and M. Letellier had then no resource left but to select a successor himself, and appeal to the country. M. Joly, leader of the Opposition, was asked to undertake the task of forming a new Administration, and he shortly afterwards appealed to the people on the distinct announcement that he assumed full responsibility for the course taken by the Lieutenant-Governor. His appeal was successful, the Government formed by him being sustained by a small majority. Soon afterwards, in conseqence, it is presumed, of pressure brought to bear upon him by his Quebec supporters, Sir John A. Macdonald introduced into the House of Commons, a motion condemnatory of M. Letellier's conduct. The motion was defeated, but the change of Government consequent upon the elections of the following September aroused in the opponents of the Lieutenant-Governor the hope of his dismissal by the Governor-General on the advice of his Ministers. On the 7th of November,these gentleman who had been members of M. DeBoucherville's Government, Messrs. Chapleau, Church, and Angus, took a decisive step. They addressed a petition to Sir Patrick L Macdougall, in his