16 PROVINCIAL LEGISLATURES. 
the Legislative Assembly of our said province and summoned 
and called to a meeting of the Legislature of our said province 
at our City of Quebec on the 15th day of the month of 
March instant to have been commenced and held, and to 
every of you 
(GREETING : 
A PROCLAMATION. 
WHEREAS the meeting of the Legislature of the Province 
of Quebec stands prorogued to the 15th day of the month of 
March instant. Nevertheless for certain causes and considera- 
“ions We have thought fit to prorogue the same to the eighth 
day of the month of April next so that neither you nor any of 
you on the said fifteenth day of March instant at our city of 
Quebec to appear are to be held and constrained for We do 
will that you and each of you and all others in this behalf 
interested on Thursday the eighth day of the month of 
April next at our said city of Quebec personally you be 
and appear for the despatch of business to treat do act and 
conclude upon those things which in our said Legislature of 
the Province of Quebec by the Common Council of our said 
Province may by the favour of God be ordained. 
In testimony whereof We have caused these our Letters 
to be made Patent and the Great Seal of our said 
Province of Quebec to be hereto affixed. Witness our 
sruly and well-beloved the Honorable Louis-Frangois- 
Rodrigue Masson, Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec, 
Member of our Privy Council for Canada. At our 
Government House in our city of Quebec in our 
said province of Quebec this twelfth day of March in 
she year of our Lord 1886 and in the 49th year of 
our reign. 
By Command, 
C. H. Huot, 
Clerk of the Crown in Chancery, 
Quebec.