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O'Connor, member for Essex. Early in the following year other ministerial readjustments took place. In January Dr. Theodore Robitaille, member for Bonaventure, became Receiver-General, in place of Mr. Chapias, who retired from the Ministry. Sir Francis Hincks had some months before intimated a wish to retire from office, and in February his retirement was consummated, though he retained his seat in Parliament until the deposition of the Government in the following November. Mr. Tilley accepted the vacant portfolio of Minister of Finance, and Dr. Tupper succeeded to Mr. Tilley's former place at the head of the Customs Department. A few days afterwards the Inland Revenue Department was assumed by Mr. O'Connor.