2392 THE LONDON GAZETTE, MAY 19, 1871.

Lord Chamberlain*s Office, St. James's Palace., nated " ," and March 24, 1871. return onj member. "" Cariboo District" and " Lillooet Dis- OTICE is hereby given, that Her Majesty's trict," as specified in the said public no- N Birthday will be kept on Saturday, the tice, shall constitute one district, to be 20th of May next. designated " Cariboo District," and re- turn one member. " Tale District " and " Kootenay District," as specified in the said public notice, shall T the Court at Windsor, the 16th day of constitute one district, to be designated A' May, 1871. "Tale District," and return one member. 7 Those portions of Vancouver Island, known PEESE^ T, as " ," " Esqiiima.lt Dis- The QUEEN'S Most Excellent Majesty. trict," and " Metchosin District," as de- His Eoyal Highness Prince AETHUE. fined in the official maps of those dis- tricts which are in the Land Office, UbroTPrivy"SealY ' "Lord'Chamberlain. .Victoria, and are designated respectively, Earl Cowper. Mr. Secretary Card well. "Victoria District Official Map, 1858," Earl of Kimberley. Mr. Ayrton. " Esquimalt District Official Map, 1858," and "Metchosin District Official Map, £/Y7KEEEAS by the "British North America. A..D. 1858," shall constitute one district, » v Act, 1SG7," provision was made for the to be designated " Victoria District," and Union of the Provinces of , Nova Scotia return two members. and New Brunswick into the Dominion of AILthe remainder of Vancouver Island, and Canada, and it was (amongst other, things) enacted all such islands adjacent thereto, as were that, it- should be lawful .for the Queen, by formerly dependencies.of the late Colony and with the advice of Her . Majesty's Most of Vancouver Island District, shall con- lEConourable Privy Council, on Addresses from stitute one district, to be designated the. Houses of the Parliament of Canada, and " Vancouver Island District," and re- of the Legislature of the Colony of British turn one member. Columbia, 'to admit that colony into the. said Union on such terms and conditions as should be And the Eight Honourable Eurl of .Kimberley, in the Addresses expressed, and as'the Queen- one of Her. Majesty's Principal Secretaries of should think fit to approve;, subject.to the 'pro- State, is to give the necessary directions herein accordingly. visions of the s€ajd .Act. And it was further enacted that the provisions of any Order in Coun- Arthur Helps. cil in that behalf-should have [effect'as if ttiey had been enacted by the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. SCHEDULE. And whereas by Addresses from the Houses of Address of the Senate of Canada. the Parliament of Canada and from the Legis- To the Queen's Excellent Majesty. lative Council of respectively, of which Addresses copies are contained in the Most Gracious Sovereign, Schedule to this Order annexed, Her Majesty We, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal •was prayed, by and with the advice, of Her Most subjects, the Senate of Canada in Parliament Honourable Privy Council, under the one hun- assembled, humbly approach your Majesty for the dred and forty-sixth section of the hereinbefore purpose of representing:— recited Act, to admit British Columbia into the That. by a despatch from the Governor of Dominion of Canada, on the terms and conditions British Columbia, dated 23rd January, 1871, set forth in the said Addresses. with other papers laid before this House by And whereas.Her Majesty has thought fit to message from his Excellency the Governor- approve of the said terms and conditions. It is G-eneral, of the 27th February last, this House hereby ordered and declared by Her Majesty, learns that the Legislative Council of that colony, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, in in council assembled, adopted, in January last, an pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in Address representing to your Majesty that British Her Majesty by the said Act of Parliament, that Columbia was prepared to enter into Union with from and after the twentieth -day of. July, the Dominion of Canada, upon the terms and one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, conditions mentioned in the said Address, which the said Colony of British Columbia shalLbe ad- is as follows :— mitted into and become part of the Dominion of To the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty. Canada, upon the terms and conditions set forth in the" hereinbefore recited Addresses. And, in Most Gracious Sovereign, accordance with the terms of the said Addresses We, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal relating to the electoral districts in British Co- subjects, the Members of the Legislative Council lumbia, for which the first election of members to of British Columbia in council assembled, hum- serve in the House of Commons of the said Do- bly approach your Majesty for the purpose of minion shall take place, it is hereby further or- representing:— dered and declared that such electoral districts That, during the last session of the late Legis- shall be as follows:— lative Council, the subject of the admission of " New Westminster District" and the "Coast the Colony of British Columbia into the Union District," as defined in a public notice or Dominion of Canada was taken into considera- issued from the Lands and Works Office tion, and a resolution on the subject was agreed in the said colony on the fifteenth day of to, embodying the terms upon which it was pro- December, one thousand eight hundred posed that this colony should enter the Union; and sixty-nine, by the desire of the Gover- That after the close of the session, Delegates nor, and purporting to be in accordance were sent by the Government of this Colony to with the provisions of the thirty-ninth Canada to confer with the Government of the clause of the " Mineral Ordinance, 1869," Dominion with respect to the admission of British shall constitute one district, to be desig- Columbia into the Union upon the terms proposed;