The provision for the Militia;

The Lighthouses, Shipwrecked Crews, Quarantine, and Marine Hospitals;

The Geological Survey;

The Penitentiary;

Efficient Steam Service for the conveyance of mails and passengers, to be established and maintained between the Island and the mainland of the Dominion, Winter and Summer, thus placing the Island in continuous communication with the Intercolonial Railway and the railway system of the Dominion;

The maintenance of telegraphic communication between the Island and the mainland of the Dominion;

And such other charges as may be incident to, and connected with, the services which by the "British North America Act, 1867," appertain to the General Government, and as are or may be allowed to the other Provinces;

That the railways under contract and in course of construction for the Government of the Island, shall be the property of Canada;

That the new building in which are held the Law Courts, Registry Office, etc., shall be transferred to Canada, on the payment of sixty-nine thousand dollars. The purchase to include the land on which the building stands, and a suitable space of ground in addition, for yard room, &c.;

That the Steam Dredge Boat in course of construction, shall be taken by the Dominion, at a cost not exceeding twenty-two thousand dollars;

That the Steam Ferry Boat owned by the Goverment of the Island, and used as such, shall remain the property of the Island;

That the population of Prince Edward Island having been increased by fifteen thousand or upwards since the year 1861, the Island shall be represented in the House of Commons of Canada by six Members; the representation

to be re-adjusted, from time to time, under the provisions of the "British North America Act, 1867 ";

That the constitution of the Executive Authority and of the Legislature of Prince Edward Island, shall, subject to the provisions of the“ British North America Act, 1867," continue, as at the time of the Union, until altered under the authority of the said Act, and the House of Assembly of Prince Edward Island existing at the date of the Union shall, unless sooner dissolved, continue for the period for which it was elected;

That the Provisions in the "British North America Act, 1867," shall, except those parts thereof which are in terms made, or by reasonable intendment, may be held to be especially applicable to, and only to affect one and not the whole of the Provinces now composing the Dominion, and except so far as the same may be varied by these resolutions, be applicable to Prince Edward Island, in the same way and to the same extent as they apply to the other Provinces of the Dominion, and as if the Colony of Prince Edward Island had been one of the Provinces originally united by the said Act.

That the Union shall take place on such day as Her Majesty may direct by Order in Council, on Addresses to that effect from the Houses of Parliament of Canada and of the Legislature of the Colony of Prince Edward Island, under the one hundred and forty-sixth section of the "British North America Act, 1867," and that the Electoral Districts for which, the time within which, and the laws and provisions under which, the first Election of Members to serve in the House of Commons of Canada for such Electoral Districts shall be held, shall be such as the said Houses of the Legislature of the said Colony of Prince Edward Island may specify in their said Addresses.

We, therefore, humbly pray that Your Majesty will be graciously pleased, by and with the advice of Your Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, under the provisions of the

one hundred and forty-sixth section of the "British North America Act, 1867," to admit Prince Edward Island into the Union or Dominion of Canada, on the terms and conditions herein before set forth.

(Signed)

House of Commons,

20th May, 1873.

JAMES COCKBURN,

Speaker.

A similar address was voted by the Senate of the Dominion, and by the two Houses of the Prince Edward Island Legislatures the latter specifying the electoral districts as set out in the Order in Council.

APPENDICES.

1. COLONIAL LAWS VALIDITY ACT, 1865.

2. LETTERS PATENT CONSTITUTING THE OFFICE OF GOVERNOR GENERAL OF CANADA.

3 INSTRUCTIONS TO ACCOMPANY SAME

4. QUEBEC RESOLUTIONS.

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