JOURNALS

OF

THE COUNCIL

OF THE

North-West Territories

OF CANADA.

FIRST LEGISLATIVE SESSION UNDER 38 VICT. CHAP. 49, 1877,
BEGUN AND HOLDEN AT LIVINGSTONE, SWAN RIVER,
ON THE 8TH DAY AND CLOSED ON THE

22ND DAY OF MARCH, 1877.

HONORABLE DAVID LAIRD,

LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR.

SESSION OF 1877.

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PRINTED BY AMÉDÉE E. FORGET,

PRINTER TO THE GOVERNMENT OF THE NORTH-WEST TERRITORIES.

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E. J. WEIDMAN, PRINTER, "PROGRESS" OFFICE, QU'APPELLE.

Constitution of the Council.

HONORABLE DAVID LAIRD,

Lieutenant-Governor.

MATHEW RYAN,

LT.-COL. HUGH RICHARDSON,

Stipendiary Magistrates and ex-officio Members of Council.

LT.-COL. JAMES F. MACLEOD, C. M. G.,
Commissioner N. W. M. Police, Appointed Member.

AMÉDÉE E. FORGET,
Clerk of the Council.

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Livingstone, Swan River, N. W. T.,

Government House,

7th day of March, 1877.

SIR,

The Members of the Council of the North-West. Territories are summoned to meet in Legislative Session, to-morrow (Thursday) at Government House, at the hour of three o'clock, p. m.

By Command of His Honor the Lieutenant-Governor.

A. E. FORGET,

Clerk of Council.

To Mathew Ryan, Esquire,

Stipendiary Magistrate and

Ex-officio Member of Council.

N. B. A verbatim copy of the foregoing notice was also addressed to the other Members of the Council, namely: Lieut. Col. Hugh Richardson, Stipendiary Magistrate and Lieut. Col. James F. Macleod, C. M. G., Com. N. W. M. Police, appointed Member.

A. E. F.

C. Council.

At the first legislative Session of the Council of the NorthWest Territories, begun and holden at Livingstone, Swan River, on the Eighth day of March in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven, in pursuance of an Act of the Parliament of Canada, passed at the Session of 1875, intituled "An Act to amend and consolidate the Laws respecting the North-West Territories."

On which Day, being the first day of the meeting of the Council, by appointment of the Honorable David Laird, Lieutenant-Governor of the North-West Territories, His Honor being present, Mathew Ryan and Hugh Richardson, Esquires, severally laid their Commissions before him as Stipendiary Magistrates for the said Territories, which constitute them exofficio Members of the Council; and Lieutenant-Colonel James Farquharson Macleod, C. M. G., presented his Commission appointing him Member of the Council, which being done, the Members took their seats at the Council Board.

Amédée E. Forget, Esquire, having presented a letter of the Under-Secretary of State notifying him of his being appointed Clerk of the Council, took his place at the Clerk's Table.