Report, From the Select Committee, of the Legislative Council of Upper Canada, on the Report of the Right Honourable the Earl of Durham, Her Majesty's Late Governor-in-Chief of British North America (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Report, From the Select Committee, of the Legislative Council of Upper Canada, on the Report of the Right Honourable the Earl of Durham, Her Majesty's Late Governor-in-Chief of British North AmericaThe parliamentary grants' for local works, and the disposal of funds by commissioners named' by the leg islature, and the abuse of this patronage, are evidently founded upon, and rising out of, the parliamentary in¿uence sought to be made supreme, and are evils which might have been greatly exaggerated, but could not have been lessened by responsible Government. In fact they prove that governors should oftener take ther responsibility of resisting the popular voice than they have been hitherto accustomed.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.