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Proclamation. By His Excellency, James Douglas, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of British Columbia. Proclamation having the force of Law in Her majesty’s Colony of British Columbia. Whereas, under and by virtue of an Act of Parliament made and passed in the session of Parliament held in the 21st and 22nd years of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria,…
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May 19, 1859 (Creation)
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Folio, 29.3cm, pp. [2] on single sheet of white paper.
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V. [Coat of arms A] R. BRITISH COLUMBIA. PROCLAMATION. BY HIS EXCELLENCY, JAMES DOUGLAS, COMPANION OF THE MOST HONORABLE ORDER OF THE BATH, GOVERNOR AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF BRITISH COLUMBIA. ... ISSUED UNDER THE PUBLIC SEAL OF THE SAID COLONY, AT VICTORIA, THIS 18TH DAY OF MAY, ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTY NINE, IN THE TWENTY-SECOND YEAR OF HER MAJESTY’S REIGN, BY ME, JAMES DOUGLAS, [L.S.] BY HIS EXCELLENCY’S COMMAND, WILLIAM A.G. YOUNG, ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY. GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.
“The Oaths Act, 1859.”