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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

SESSION m, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29th, 1855. The House met pursuant to adjournment. Present :—The Speaker and 16 members. The Speaker read prayers, and took the Chair. The Speaker announced to the House that he had presented to his Excellency the Officer administering the Government the address which was adopted by the House yesterday; and that his Excellency had been pleased graciously to receive the same, and had expressed his intention of referring the subject of that address to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and to the Secretary of War. Dr. Lee, pursuant to notice, moved that an address be presented to his Excellency the Officer administering the Government, praying for a return of the names of those Pensioners who have either paid or are paying their passage from England to this Colony, together with the amounts already paid, and whether the sums so paid become funds of the Colonial or of the Imperial Treasury. Question put and passed. Mr. Porter, pursuant to notice, moved for leave to bring in a Bill to alter the Constitution Act, and after deducting the first charges from the Revenue directed by the Act,, and all general charges paid, to distribute the net surplus revenue, un - appropriated by the General Assembly, among the Provinces in proportion as th<s same shall have arisen in each Province. Mr. Crompton, with leave of the House, withdrew the motion standing in his name, third and fourth, on the notice paper of this day, with a view of moving them in Committee of Supply.

MINUTES OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.