Extract from the Report of the Committee of the Legislative Council, to Lord Dorchester, appointed to report on the Laws, dated 11th Jan. 1787. Suitable Juftice-Halls and Prifons—the latter, both at Quebec and Montreal, being in a condition neither confiftent with humanity to the prifoners, nor fafety to the Sheriffs or the public, and having been repeatedly prefented as infufficient by the Grand Juries of both districts. APPENDIX No. V. Exports from Quebec 1788. 200,358 bushels wheat 9,868 barrels flour 15,775 quintals biscuit 1,770 bushels oats 881 bushels pease 11,972 bushels flax-feed 5,987 pine and oak plank 69,004 pine boards 401,972 oak ftaves, and heading 211,310 fhingles RHODE HOUSE *OXFORD* LIBRARY 13,700 13,700 hoops 1,528 fhook casks 1,229 pieces fquare oak timber 80 mafts and bowfprits 660 cafks falmon 705 quintals cod fish 24 horfes 7 cafks Canada balfam 18 cafks 59 boxes} effence of spruce 8,629 pounds ginfeng 44,186 pounds adianthum nigrum 395 tons feal oil 2,123 quintals pot and pearl afhes 1,166 pounds whalebone 200 22,000 bufhels cranberries 295 dozen handspikes 130,758 beaver skins 56,731 martin do. 15,041 bear do. 151,535 deer do. in the hair 3,244 pounds dreffed deer leather 106,753 mufquash skins 115,556 racoon do. H 3 7,060 h 2,794 pounds caftorum Custom-boufe, 10th November, 1788. Shipped from the fishing pofts within the Province, in the Gulph of St. Laurence and Streights of Belle Isle, the Reports of which never come to the Custom-boufe of Quebec→→→ about 80,000 cwt. dried cod fish 8,000 tierces of falmon 500 barrels of herrings 11,000 feal skins 800 tons of oil About 10,000l. value of furs, and fome whalebone. Imported APPENDIX, No. VI. Extract from a Proteft by Geo. Allsopp, Esq. Member of the Legislative Council of Quebec, in Council, 6th March, 1780. I. IT must be allowed, that there is a manifeft want of order and regularity in the Court of Common Pleas; the firft judges or prefidents of those courts not being verfed in the science of the law, or the ufage of courts of judicature, confequently cannot be fuppofed capable to form or keep up proper regulations for that end; nor do they confine themselves to rules of law, but occafionally decide on the equity of the cafe, contrary to the letter of the law; the impropriety whereof cannot be better defined than in the words and language of a law officer of refpectable authority, in his obfervations on the former Court of Common Pleas, of which the prefident of the Legislative Council, and the three judges of the Common Pleas, now of the council, were members. "But how vague and uncertain their proceedings, as a court of equity, muft be, without one established maxim of equity in the court? how ill |