. Guide to the city of Ottawa and its vicinity ... designed for the use of visitors to the Grand Dominion Exhibition ... on the 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th and 27th Sept. 1879 . awa, Ont.—W. J. Wills. Sherbrooke, Que.—Henry Hubbard. Kingston, Ont.—K. McPherson. London, Ont.—A. G. the Maritime Provinces there are the following Government Officers:Halifax, —E. Clay. St. John, , John Livingston. And in Manitoba :—Winnipeg.—W. Hespeler. Dufferin.—J. E. Tetu. These Officers of the Government will meet every Steamship, SailingVessel, and Train bringing Immigrants. They will afford
. Guide to the city of Ottawa and its vicinity ... designed for the use of visitors to the Grand Dominion Exhibition ... on the 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th and 27th Sept. 1879 . awa, Ont.—W. J. Wills. Sherbrooke, Que.—Henry Hubbard. Kingston, Ont.—K. McPherson. London, Ont.—A. G. the Maritime Provinces there are the following Government Officers:Halifax, —E. Clay. St. John, , John Livingston. And in Manitoba :—Winnipeg.—W. Hespeler. Dufferin.—J. E. Tetu. These Officers of the Government will meet every Steamship, SailingVessel, and Train bringing Immigrants. They will afford to all who applyto them the fullest advice and protection, and all complaints should beimmediately addressed to them on arriving. They will also furnish infor-,mation as to lands open for settlement in the respective Provinces andDistricts, farms for sale, demand for employment, rates of wages, routes oftravel, distances, expense of conveyance, and will receive and forwardletters and remittances for immigrants, &c. All information which immigrants obtain from the Agents of theDominion they may accept as of Agriculture, Ottawa, IILTSIPIECTIOnsr OF Weights and Measures, The Act respecting Weights and Measures, XXXVI Vic,Chap. 47, came into operation on the 1st of July, 1875, underthe proclamation published in the Canada Gazette of 26thDecember, 1874. The duties of Excise upon Spirits theretofore computedby the old Wine gallon have been since that date computed—as provided in the Acts above cited—by the Imperial gallon,the rate of such duty being as follows :— On Spirits theretofore subject to 75 cents per Winegallon, 90 cents per Imperial or Standard gallon of thestrength of proof. It may be observed that, the Wine gallon containing 231cubic inches, and the Imperial or Standard gallon 277-274,quantities stated in Wine gallons may be reduced to Imperialgallons by deducting one-sixth—or, quantities stated inImperial gallons may be
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