needed in the island; so the admiral set up his own bank, and issued one-dollar certificates surmounted by his crest and his motto, "Flecti non Frangi." But somehow the time never came when he was called upon "to pay one dollar on demand to the bearer at Welshpool," and the certificates remain to be utilized perhaps under a new financial epoch of good will and foolish trust.
The island must have had some law and order before the advent of the admiral, for the town records for the parish of Campobello date from April 15, 1824, James M. Parker, town clerk. At the General Sessions of the peace holden at Saint Andrews, the shire town of Charlotte County, New Brunswick, thirty-two officers were chosen for the small population of Campobello. As in the old German principalities, every Welshpooler must have craved a title; there were commissioners and surveyors of highways, overseers of poor and of fisheries, assessors, trustees of schools, inspectors of fish for home consumption and for exports, for smoked herrings and boxes. There were cullers of staves, fence-viewers and hog reeves, and surveyors of lumber and cord-wood, lest that which should properly be used for purposes of building or export be consumed on andiron or in kitchen stoves.
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Admiral Owen
FROM A PORTRAIT PRESERVED AT CAMPOBELLO.
In those days there 'was no poorhouse, though town-paupers existed, for one, Peter Lion by name, was boarded about for one hundred dollars and furnished with suitable food, raiment, lodging, and
