In concluding this | document it was said : — '* Under all th« , circumstances of the case, we feel called upon to tender to your Honor our resig nation as members of your Executive Council, and at the same time to express our firm conviction thaf^ whoever may lie your Honor's -.tdvisers you will never find the rights of the settlers and the interests of posterity to be perilled by sclfi^hnps-', or sacrificed to faction." Sir, lam afraid that they were never yet so near being perilled by the interests of selfishness, or sacrificed to faction. — (Hear, hear). You are awar«, I presume, that that document is signed by Mr Macandrew, and by Mr Reynolds. I am very ylad that such a record has been placed upon the records of this Council, and I hope those gentlemen will continue to fulfil the noble, aspirations which they have there recorded (Applause). 1 now wish to direct attention to the first resolution, with regard to what has been the practice hitherto. During one se^ion there were passed the land resolutions known as the Land Regulations, 1856. They were passed on the 20th March, 185g, and assented to by the Governor in the same manner as an ordinance of the Provincial Council, in February, 1856. They became the law of the Province, as passed by this Council, and remained so for a period of ten years ; and J am doubt ful whether they were not benerland laws than we have at this day. When I look 4>aek upon the dissimulation of those par apes who were connected with the Act of P366— who took advantage of it in a "■manner -_tjS^t was never intended by this §pounoil,vi?:rigr;et that we altered the land rtt'yulatfons passed in thd second session. The next alteration was the Land Sales and Leases Ordinance; that was passed on the 11th December, 1856, arid assented to on the 27th January, ISS?. Then there came the Town Land Sales Ordi nance, passed 0%16th December, 1857, and. assented tb'^iQJf.vtbe-- 11th February, 1S&8:" Then thei^^JiS^^ resolution raisins 1 the price of lan^^^2os, passed lsth July, 1860. an& assented to the 19th Septem her, 1860. We next come to the Waste Lands Acts, Nos. 1 and 2, which were "prepared upon the resolutions that had been adopted by this Council. 