JOURNALS

OF THE

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

VOL. XVII.

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OF THE

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

OF THE

PROVINCE OF CANADA.

HIS EXCELLENCY SIR EDMUND WALKER HEAD, BARONET

GOVERNOR GENERAL,
&c., &c., &c.

BEING THE SECOND SESSION

OF THE

SIXTH PROVINCIAL PARLIAMENT.

1859.

VOLUME XVII.

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PRINTED AT THE "LEADER" & "PATRIOT" OFFICE, KING STREET, TORONTO,

VICTORIA, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, QUEEN, Defender of the Faith, &c., &'c., &c.

To our Beloved and Faithful the Legislative Councillors of the Province of Canada, and the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses elected to serve in the Legislative Assembly of Our said Province, summoned and called to a Meeting of the Provincial Parliament of Our said Province, at our City of Toronto, on the Twenty-fifth day of September instant, to have been commenced and held, and to every of you

GREETING:

W

A PROCLAMATION.

HEREAS on the Sixteenth day of the month of August last, We thought fit to prorogue Our Provincial Parliament to the TWENTY-FIFTH