City of London, Ontaro, CanadaThe pioneer period and the London of to-day . THE LATE ROBERT Public Library Board. TALBOT MACBETH, Q. Public Library Board. HENRY Public Library Board. rights and the advancement of the interestsof the country generally. The first officersof the Board, with the possible exception ofone, have all been taken by death. They?were: Ad-am Hope,president;LionelRi d o u t,vice-pres-ident ; J. II |[^C. Mack-lin, secre-tary; J. , JohnBirrell, , o n ,Chas. , Buck-ley, G. ,
City of London, Ontaro, CanadaThe pioneer period and the London of to-day . THE LATE ROBERT Public Library Board. TALBOT MACBETH, Q. Public Library Board. HENRY Public Library Board. rights and the advancement of the interestsof the country generally. The first officersof the Board, with the possible exception ofone, have all been taken by death. They?were: Ad-am Hope,president;LionelRi d o u t,vice-pres-ident ; J. II |[^C. Mack-lin, secre-tary; J. , JohnBirrell, , o n ,Chas. , Buck-ley, G. , JasCoyne, ,,Char 1 e sHunt, andJoseph Anderson. A careful perusal of the minutesof every meeting held by the Board since itsorganization shows that the first subjectstaken up were the bankruptcy and usury. PUBLIC LIBRARY. laws, then before the Legislature. It desiredto advance the legal rate of interest fromsix to seven per cent., taking the ground thatstringent usury laws vs^ere evaded and had a tendencyto keepout t hef o re i gncapitalnecessaryto developthe coun-try. TheBoardheld thatimpris-onmentfor debtshouldbe abol-ished, andas earlyas1858de-bated thequestionof Protec-tion ver-sus FreeTrade. An u m berof mem-bers heldthat a protective duty should be levied uponmanufactured goods equal to that imposed bythe United States. This, however, was aspeculative rather than a practical question ONTARIO, CANADA. 109 in those days, and does not sooni from therecords to have evoked much enthusiasmeither way. Matters of more direct con-
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