Item is a document commissioning Sir Mathew Baillee Begbie, Henry Pering Pellew Crease, John Hamilton Gray, John Foster McCreight and George Anthony Walkem as Justices in the Province of British Columbia by command of Clement F. Cornwall, Governor. The document is a printed text with handwritten dates and signatures, with the great seal of the province of British Columbia affixed in the upper left corner, signed Clement F. Cornwall in the upper right corner, and has been folded twice. A printed decorative border runs along the left edge of the document, which is surrounded by the Royal Arms.