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[cmcntam] DOWNXNG STREET, 24th May. 1867. Sta; T afi‘ords me much gratification to inform you, that a

Proclamation for uniting from the 1st of July, 1807, the Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, into one Dominion. under the name of CANADA, was ap- proved by the Queen in Council, on the 22nd instant.

I have the honor to enclose cepies of the Gazette contain- ing the Proclamation. I have. .320. &c. &c. (Signed) BUCKINGHAM AND CHANDOS. Lieutenant Governor Dundas, &e. &e. &e.

BY THEQUEEN. A PROCLAMATION

For Unit/'12:; z‘x'm I’rorinccs of Canada, New Scot/in, and New .li/‘ltlts‘tt‘fc/t‘. into one Dominion, under the name QI"C.\.\'.\D.\. HEREAS by an Act of Parliament, passed on the twenty-ninth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirtieth year of Cur reign, intituled “ An Act for the Union of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, and the Government thereof, and for purposes connected therewith," al'ter divers recitals it is enacted that “ it shall be lawful for the Queen, by and with the advice of Her Majesty’s Most Honorable Privy Council, to declare, by Proclamation, that on and alter a day there- in appointed, not being more than six months after the passing of this Act. the Provinces ol‘ Canada. Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, shall form and be One Dominion under the name of Canada. and on and after that day those Three Provinces shall form and be One Dominion under that name accordingly :” and it. is thereby further enacted, that Such Persons shall be first summoned to the Senate as the Queen by Warrant, under Her Majesty’s Royal Sign Manual, thinks fit to approve, and their Names shall be inserted in the Queen’s Proclamation of Union :" We, therefore, by and with the advice of Our Privy Council, have thought fit to issue this Our Royal Proclamation, and We do ordain, declare. and command that on and after the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, the Provinces of Canada. Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, shall form and be One Dominion, under the name of Canada.

And We do further ordain and declare that the persons whose names are herein inserted and set forth are the per-

sons of whom We have by Warrant under Our Royal Sign ' Manual thought fit to approve as the persons who shall be '

first summoned to the Senate of Canada.

For the Province of Ontario.

John'llamilton. Roderick Matheson.

John Ross.

Samuel Mills.

Benjamin Seymour. Walter Hamilton Dickson. James Shaw.

Adam Johnston Ferguson Blair. Alexander Campbell. David Christie.

James Cox Aikins. David I’teesor.

Elijah Leonard.

William ills-Master.

Asa Allworth Burnham. John Simpson.

James Skead.

David Lewis Macpherson. George Crawford. Donald Macdonald. Oliver Blake.

Billa Flint.

Walter McCrea.

George William Allan.

For the Province of Quebec.

James Leslie.

Asa Belknap Foster. loseph Noel Bosse.

Louis A. Olivier.

Jacque Olivier Bureau. Charles Malhoit.

Louis Renaud.

Luc Letellier de St. Just. Ulric Joseph Tessier. John Hamilton.

Charles Cormier.

Antoine Juchereau Duchcsnay. David Edward Price. Elzear H. J. Duchesnay. Leandre Dumouchel. Louis Lacoste.

Joseph F. Armand. Charles Wilson.

William Henry Chafi‘crs. Jean Baptiste Guevremont. James Ferrier.

Sir Narcisse Fortunat Belleau, Knight. Thomas Ryan.

John Sewell Sanborn.

For the Province of Nova Scotia.

Edward Kenny. Jonathan McCully. Thomas D. Archibald. Robert B. Dickey. John H. Anderson. John Holmes. John W. Ritchie. Benjamin Wier. John Locke.

Caleb R. Bill. John Bourinot. William Miller.

For the Province of New Brunswick.

Amos Edwin Botsford. Edward Barron Chandler. John Robertson.