Report From The Select Committee On The Civil Government Of Canada. Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be Printed 22 July 1827 [sic].

8vo. pp. 2 p.l., 377. partly unopened in later cloth (some foxing throughout). The report, p. [1]-10, is dated July 22, 1828, and is followed by minutes of evidence, May 8-July 15, 1828, pp. 11-328, and an appendix of supporting documents, pp. 329-77. Among the witnesses listed on [p. iii] are Samuel Gale, Edward Ellice, John Neilson, Denis Benjamin Viger amd Austin Cuvillier. The British parliamentary Canada Committee was set up in 1828 to study the grievances of Upper and Lower Canada. "Its major recommendations were that a tax should be imposed on unimproved lands held by speculators; that the laws, customs, and religion of the French Canadians should be respectedthat the crown revenues should be surrendered to the colonial Houses of Assembly in exchange for a Civil List; that steps should be taken to sell the Clergy Reserves and to divide the proceeds fairly among all Protestant denominations; and that the revenue from the Jesuits Estates should be used for education." (Story p. 145) TPL 1486. Dionne III 217. Lande 385. Sabin 10576. cfGagnon I 2989. …