PUBLIC DOCUMENTS. 



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public debt of any Province as arc assumed by the 

 Local Governments, shall also belong to those Gov- 

 ernments respectively. 



59. The several Provinces shall retain all other 

 public property therein, subject to the right of the 

 General Government to assume any lands or public 

 property required for fortifications or the defence of 

 the country. 



60. The General Government shnll assume all the 

 debts and liabilities of each Province. 



61. The debt of Canada not specially assumed by 



Upper and Lower Canada respectively, shall 

 not exceed at the time of the 'Union, 

 0,000. 



Nova Scotia shall enter the Union with a debt 

 not exceeding S,00>'. 



And New Brunswick, with a debt not exceed- 

 ing $7,000,000. 



62. In case Nova Scotia or New Brunswick do not 

 incur liabilities beyond those for which their Govern- 

 ments are now bound and which shall make their 

 debts at the date of Union less than *S,000,000 and 

 $7,000,000 respectively, they shall be entitled to in- 

 terest at 5 per cent, on the amount not so incurred, 

 in like manner as is hereinafter provided for New- 

 foundland and Prince Edward Island ; the foregoing 

 resolution being in no respect intended to limit the 

 powers given to the respective Governments of those 

 Provinces by legislative authority, but only to limit 

 the maximum amount of charge to be assumed by 

 the General Government. Provided always that the 

 powers so conferred by the respective legislatures 

 shall be exercised within five years from this date cr 

 the same shall then lapse. ' 



63. Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island, not 

 having incurred debts equal to those of the other 

 Provinces, shall be entitled to receive by half-yearly 

 payments in advance from the General Government 

 the interest at 5 per cent, on the difference between 

 the actual amount of their respective debts at the 

 time of the Union, and the average amount of in- 

 debtedness per head of the population of Canada, 

 Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick. 



G-t. In consideration of the transfer to the General 

 Parliament of the powers of taxation, an annual grant 

 in aid of each Province shall be made, equal to 80 

 cents per head of the population, as established by 

 the census of 1861, the population of Newfoundland 

 being estimated at 130,000. Such aid shall be in full 

 settlement of all future demands upon the General 

 Government for local purposes, and shall be paid 

 half-yearly in advance to each Province. 



65. The position of New Brunswick being such as 

 to entail large immediate charges upon her local rev- 

 enues, it is agreed that for the period of ten years 

 from the time when the Union takes effect, an addi- 

 tional allowance of $63,000 per annum shall be made 

 to that Province. But that so long as the liability of 

 that Province remains under 7,000,000, a deduction 

 equal to the interest on such deficiency shall be made 

 from the $63,000. 



66. In consideration of the surrender to the Gen- 

 eral Government by Newfoundland of all rights in 

 mines and minerals, and of all the ungranted and un- 

 occupied lands of the crown, it is agreed that the 

 sum of $150,000 shall each year be paid to that Prov- 

 ince, by semi-annual payments. Provided that that 

 Colony shall retain the right of opening, construct- 

 ing, and controlling roads and bridges through any 

 of the said lands, subject to any laws which the Gen- 

 eral Parliament may pass in respect of the same. 



67. All engagements that may, before the Union, 

 be entered into with the Imperial Government for the 

 defence of the country shall be assumed by the Gen- 

 eral Government. 



68. The General Government shall secure, without 

 delay, the completion of the intercolonial railway 

 from Riviere-du-Loup through New Brunswick to 

 Truro in Nova Scotia. 



69. The communications with the northwestern 



territory, and the improvements rcquiicd for the de- 

 velopment of the trade of the Great West with the 

 Seaboard, are regarded by this conference as subjects 

 of the highest importance to the Federated Provinces, 

 and shall be prosecuted at the earliest possible period 

 that the state of the finances will permit. 



The sanction of the Imperial and Local Parlia- 

 ments shall be sought for the Union of the Provinces, 

 on the principles adopted by the conference. 



71. That Her Majesty the Queen be solicited to de 

 termine the rank and" name of the Federated Pro?, 

 inces. 



7-'. The proceedings of the conference shall be au- 

 thenticated by the signatures of the delegates, and 

 submitted by each delegation to its own government, 

 and the chairman is authorized to submit a copy to 

 the Governor General for transmission to the Secre- 

 tary of State for the Colonies. 



The Encyclical Letter of Pope Pius IX. 



To OUR VENERABLE BROTHERS, THE PATRIARCHS, PRI- 

 MATES, ARCHBISHOPS, AXD BISHOPS OF THE UXIVEK- 

 SAL CHURCH HAVING GBACE AXD COMMCXIOX o? THE 

 APOSTOLIC SEE. 



PIUS P. P. IX. 

 \ and Apostolic Benediction. 



It is well-known unto all men, and especially to 

 Tou, Venerable Brothers, with wh&t great care "and 

 pastoral vigilance Our Predecessors, the Roman Pon- 

 tiffs, have discharged the Office entrusted by Christ 

 Our Lord to themln the person of the Most "Blessed 

 Peter, Prince of the Apostles, and have unremittingly 

 discharged the duty of feeding the lambs and sheep, 

 and have diligently nourished the Lord's entire flock 

 with the words of 'faith, imbued it with salutary doc- 

 trine, and guarded it from poisoned pastures. And 

 those Our Predecessors, who were the assertors and 

 champions of the august Catholic Religion, truth 

 and justice, being as they were chiefly solicitous for 

 the salvation of souls, held nothing to be of so great 

 importance as the dutv of exposing and condemning, 

 in their most wise Letters and Constitutions, all 

 heresies and errors which are hostile to moral hon- 

 esty and to the eternal salvation of mankind, and 

 which have frequently stirred up terrible commo- 

 tions and have damaged both the Christian and civil 

 commonwealths in a disastrous manner. Wherefore 

 those Our Predecessors have with Apostolic fortitude 

 continually resisted the nefarious attempts of unjust 

 men, of those who like raging waves of the sea foam- 

 ins forth their own confusion and promising liberty 

 whilst they are the slaves of corruption, endeavored 

 by their false opinions and most pernicious writings 

 to overthrow the foundations of the Catholic religion 

 and of civil society, to abolish all virtue and justice, 

 to deprave the souls and minds of all men, and espe- 

 cially to pervert inexperienced youth from upright- 

 ness of morals to corrupt them miserably, to lead 

 them into snares of error, and finally to tear them 

 from the bosom of the Catholic Church. 



And now, Venerable Brothers, as is also very well 

 known to you scarcely had We (by the secret dis- 

 pensation of Divine Providence, certainly bv no 

 merit of Our own) been called to this Chair'of Peter 

 when We, to the extreme grief of Our soul, beheld 

 a horrible tempest stirred up by so many erroneous 

 opinions, and the dreadful, and never-enough-to-be 

 la'mented mischiefs which redound to Christian peo- 

 ple from such errors : and We then, in discharge of 

 Our Apostolic Ministerial Office, imitating the exam 

 pie of Our illustrious Predecessors, raised Our voice, 

 and in several published Encyclical Letters, and in 

 Allocutions delivered in Consistorv, and in other 

 Apostolical Letters, We condemned the prominent, 

 most grievous errors of the age, and we stirred up 

 Your "excellent episcopal vigilance, and again and 

 nain did We admonish and exhort all the sons of 

 the Catholic Church who are most d^ir to Us, that 



