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 I The Law School of Osgoode Hall.

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THE LAW SCHOOL OF OSGOODE HALL, TORONTO. . By D. B. Read, Q. C. EVER since Upper Canada, now Onta rio, was made a separate province by the Imperial Act of 179 1, the subject of the education of professional men has entered largely into the scheme of government. As early as the year 1797 the representatives of the people, in Parliament assembled, took the matter of the education of persons destined for the profession of the Law into their seri ous consideration. On the 3d of July in the year last named, the Provincial Legislature passed an Act " for the better regulating the practice of the Law," by which it was enacted " that it shall and may be lawful for the persons now admitted to practise in the Law, and practising at the Bar of any of His Majesty's Courts of the Province, to form themselves into a Society, to be called 35

the Law Society of Upper Canada, as well for the establishing of Order among them selves, as for the purpose of securing to the Province and the profession a learned and honorable body to assist their fellow subjects as occasion may require, and to sup port and maintain the Constitution of the Province." The second section of this Act authorized the Law Society to form a body of rules and regulations for its own government, under the inspection of the judges of the Prov ince for the time being, as visitors of the Society, and to appoint the senior six or more of the then present practitioners and the six or more senior members for the time being in all time to come (whereof his Majesty's At torney-General and Solicitor-General for the