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No. 154.

(CANADA.)

LAW OFFICERS to COLONIAL OFFICE.

MY LORD,

Royal Courts of Justice, July 9, 1889. We were honoured with your Lordship's commands, signified in Mr. Edward Wingfield's letter of the 3rd instant, stating that he was directed by your Lordship to transmit to us a Memorandum by Sir J. Thompson, the Minister of Justice in Canada, on the Statute of Quebec (chapter 13 of 1888), entitled ment of the Jesuits Estates," and that he was to inform us that the Government "An. Act respecting the settle- of the Dominion were desirous of, knowing whether, in our opinion, the decision arrived at not to interfere with the operation of that Provincial Act was right and constitutional.

That your Lordship requested that you might be furnished with an early expression of our opinion as your Lordship was informed that the publication of the Act in Canada would probably put an end to what was becoming a serious religious strife.

We have taken the matter into our consideration and, in obedience to your Lordship's commands, have the honour to

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That, in our opinion, the decision arrived at by the Governor-General not to interfere with the operation of the Provincial Act in question was right and constitutional.

We have, &c.,

(Signed) RICHARD E. WEBSTER.

The Right Hon. Lord Knutsford.

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EDWARD CLARKE.

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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