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change in terminology in the Rough Draft; in the first Draft it is 

 enlarged so as to authorize the use of either language in the Debates 

 of the House of Parliament and the Local Legislature of Lower 

 Canada, the Records and Journals of these Houses and "by any 

 person or in any Pleading or Process or in issuing from any Court 

 of the United Colony or in or from all or any of the Provincial 

 Courts of Lower Canada." (Sir) John A. Macdonald queried this 

 provision "Qu? whether as to Courts of the United Colony this should 

 not be confined to such of those Courts as sit in Lower Canada." 



The third Draft makes it obligatory to use both languages in 

 the Records and Journals of the Parliament of Canada and of Lower 

 Canada; the fourth Draft provides that the Statutes of Canada 

 and of Quebec shall be printed in both languages in separate volumes; 

 the final Draft follows the third and the Act as passed is the same 

 in substance.^ 



MEMORANDUM. 



In considering the Conferences, leading upon to Confederation 

 and the forms assumed by the proposed legislation, it should be 

 borne in mind: — 



There was in 1864, a Conference at Charlottetown of Delegates 

 from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island at 

 which Delegates from Canada made their appearance, but nothing 

 was there decided except to hold another Conference at Quebec. 



The Quebec Conference was held October 1864, attended by 

 Delegates from Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward 

 Island and Newfoundland, resulting in a Report of the Delegates. 

 The proceedings at this Conference so far as available will be found 

 in the volume mentioned in Note 4 p. 79 supra, at pp. 1-88; the Report 

 of Delegates pp. 38-52. 



Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland standing aloof. Dele- 

 gates from Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick in 1866, met at 

 the Westminster Palace ''Hotel, London, and had a Conference, the 

 Proceedings of which are given in outline pp. 94-97, pp. 111-122, 

 and their Resolutions pp. 98-110. 



A Rough Draft of the proposed Bill was then drawn up, pp. 

 123-140; the first Draft then followed, Jan. 23rd, 1867, pp. 141-157; 

 a second Jan. 30th; a third February 2nd, pp. 158-176; a fourth 

 pp. 177-211; a final Draft Feb. 9th pp. 212-247; the Act as passed 

 pp. 248-293. 



1 Pope, "Confederation," pp. 33, 48, 107, 135, 156, 175, 243, 279. 



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