IB^ITIESIH: COIiTTIhCBI-A.. PROCLAMATION. By His Excellency JAMES DOUGLAS, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of British Colum­ bia, Vice-Admiral of the same. HEREAS, under and by virtue of an Act of Parliament, made and passed in the W Session of Parliament held in the 21st and 22nd years of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled "An Act to provide for the Government of British Columbia," and by a Commission under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, I JAMES DOUGLAS, have been appointed Governor of the said Colony, and have been authorized by Proclamation under the Public Seal of the said Colony, to make laws, institutions, and ordinances, for the peace, order, and good government of the same; AND "WHEREAS, by a certain Indenture, dated the 12th day of June, 1860, and made between RICHARD CLEMENT MOODY, Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works in British Columbia, of the one part, and FRANKLIN WAY, of Spuzzem, and JOSIAH C. BEEDY, of Fort Yale, ofthe other part, the said FRANKLIN WAY and JOSIAH C. BEEDY have con­ tracted and agreed to construct a certain trail or road as described in the said indenture, and withiit the time and on the terms, and subject to the approval therein mentioned, for the price of Four1 Thousand Four Hundred Pounds, to be paid in such instalments as therein mentioned, by means ofBritish Columbia Treasury Bonds, issued and redeem­ able,, and bearing interest in the manner hereinafter mentioned. ' v Now, therefore, I JAMES DOUGLAS, do hereby declare, proclaim and enact as follows : I. On the completion of each section ofthe said road, as mentioned in the saidinden- the proper person appointed to approve arid take over the same, there delivered to the said FRANKLIN WAY and JOSIAH C. BEEDY, their executors, ad- as, thirteen bonds, in the form set forth in the Schedule hereto an­ nexed, each bond being for the amount of £50, and bearing interest at the rate of £6 cent per annum,' • •; fhmo calendar months from the completion|of the whole of 1, there may be delivered to the said FRANKLIN WAY :ors, administrators and assigns, such an additional of -tin rids shall together, with those already delivered under amount of £4,400, or eighty-eight bonds in all. All the said red in a regular series, according to the natural numbers from one to eighty-eight, according to the order in which the same shall be issued. III. The bonds numbered 1 to 16, both inclusive, shall be payable on the 1st Janua­ ry, 1861. The bonds numbered 17 to 32, both inclusive, shall be payable on the 1st of January, 1862. The bonds numbered 33 to 88, both inclusive, shall be payable on the 1st January, 1863, unless presented for payment on such respective dates, the bonds re­ spectively shall thence forth .cease to bear any interest. IV. The Treasurer for the time being of the Colony, is hereby ordered and directed to pay the amount of every such bond and interest, out of any monies belonging to the Colony in his hands, and at the time when such bond shall be presented to him for pay­ ment, according to the tenor thereof. V. The Schedule hereto shall be deemed to be part of this Proclamation. VI. This Proclamation may be cited on all occasions as the " Spuzzem Road Bonds Act, 1860." Issued under the Public Seal of the said Colony, at Victoria, Vancouver Island, this tenth day of August, in the year of Our Lord, One thousand eight hun­ {,.,} dred and sixty, and in the twenty-fourth year of Her Majesty's Reign, by *—v—> me, JAMES DOUGLAS. By Command of His Excellency, WILLIAM A. G. YOUNG, Acting Colonial Secretary. GOD SAVE THE QUEEK SCHEDULE. TREASURY BOND. PROCLAMATION 1860. Fort Yale and Spuzzem Road. No. £50 day of 186 \ Payable 1st January, 186 . The Government of British Columbia is hereby bound to pay to the bearer hereof, on the 1st January, 186 , at the Treasury of British Columbia, the sum of £50, to­ gether with interest thereon from the date hereof, after the rate of £6 per cent per annum. _ -^ TREASURER. By order of His Excellency the Governor, —«.„ —Colonial Secretory. .