MANUAL OR EXPLANATORY DEVELOPMENT

OF THE ACT FOR THE UNION OF

CANADA NOVA SCOTIA AND NEW BRUNSWICK,

IN ONE DOMINION UNDER THE NAME OF

CANADA,

SYNTHETICAL AND ANALYTICAL:

WITH

THE TEXT OF THE ACT ETC.,

AND

INDEX TO THE ACT AND THE TREATISES.

BY JOHN GOOCH.

OTTAWA :

PRINTED BY G. E. DESBARATS.

1867.

Entered, according to the Act of the Provincial Parliament, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, by JOHN GоосH, in the Office of the Registrar of Canada.

BODLEIAN

12.2-1904

TO

THE HONORABLE SIR JOHN ALEXANDER MACDONALD, K. C. B.,

PREMIER OF THE FIRST ADMINISTRATION OF THE DOMINION OF CANADA,

LATE CHAIRMAN OF THE DELEGATES FOR THE UNION OF THE PROVINCES IN LONDON,

AND AS BEING

THE FIRST AMONG THE ABLE AND DEVOTED PUBLIC MEN TO WHOM CANADA OWES

66 THE BRITISH NORTH AMERICA ACT, 1867,"

THIS WORK IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY HIS VERY OBEDIENT SERVANT,

JOHN GOOCH.