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Date: 1866-12
By: Hewitt Bernard, John A. Macdonald, British North American Delegates
Citation: John A. Macdonald Fonds, Drafts of the London Resolutions – Scrap Resolution: First Appointments of Senators, December, 1866 (MG 26 A, Vol. 47/1, p. 18298).
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18298

The members of the Legislative Council [for the Confederation] shall in the first instance be appointed from the nomination of the Executive Governments of Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick [respectively] and the number allotted to each Province shall be nominated from the Legislative Councils of the different Provinces [with due [illegible] to the] in such [illegible] as to [due regard being had to the fair] upon a fair representation of the opposition as [illegible] [illegible] of the [illegible] of the Government [of both political parties] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] any member of the local Council so nominated shall [illegible] [illegible] to a [illegible] [illegible’ shall be [illegible] for the Executive Government in any Province to nominate in his place a gentleman [person] who is [illegible] is not a member of the Local Council.

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