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Date: 1866-08-16
By: Viscount Monck
Citation: Despatch from Viscount Monck to the Earl of Carnarvon, No. 116 (16 August 1866) in UK, Parliament, Correspondence respecting the Proposed Union of the British North American Provinces (London: George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1867).
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No.18.

Copy of a DESPATCH from Viscount MONCK to the Right Hon. the Earl of CARNARVON.

               (No.116.)                                                                                                                                                             Ottawa, August 16, 1866.

                                                                                                                                                (Received August 29, 1866.)

My Lord,                                                                                                                                         (Answered, No. 4 August 31, 1866, page 48.)

I HAVE the honour to transmit to your Lordship an Address to Her Majesty the Queen from the Legislative Council of Canada, praying that Her Majesty will be graciously pleased to cause a measure to be submitted to the Imperial Parliament for creating Local Governments and Legislatures in Canada East and Canada West respectively, after the union of the British NOrth American Colonies shall have been completed. I request that your Lordship will have the goodness to lay this address before the Queen.

The Right Hon. the Earl of Carnarvon,                                                                                                                                 I have, &c.

&c,           &c,           &c,                                                                                                                                          (Signed)      MONCK.

Enclosure in No. 18.

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