The four volumes of the Upper Canada Gazette, beginning Vol. XI., No. 1, May 19th, 1836, to the 7th May, 1840, in the library of the Ontario Legislature, from which the Proclamations in this Report for that period have been taken, are complete, and therefore the details, as above, are not given.

Since the above details were set in type a volume has been found entitled Newspapers, Minor Series," which contains three numbers of the Upper Canada Gazette, published at York, U.C., viz., No. 56, dated 11th March, 1822; No. 57, 18th March, 1822; and No. 61, 15th April, 1822.

Also numbers of the first four volumes of the Upper Canada Gazette (New Series) and Weekly Register combined, published at York, U. C., viz. :—

Vol. I, 1822, beginning with No. 1, dated 18th April, the following numbers being missing: No. 16, 1st Aug.; No. 17, 8th Aug.; No. 22, 12th Sept,; No. 23, 19th Sept.; No. 25, 3rd Oct; No. 26, 10th Oct.; No. 27, 17th Oct.; No. 28, 24th Oct.; Nos. 30 to 37, from 7th Nov. to 26th Dec, 1822.

Vol. II., 1823, beginning on 2nd January; No. 1, January 2nd, and No. 2, Jan. 9th, are missing; No. 4, 23rd Jan.; No. 6, 6th Feb.; No. 11, 13th March; No. 13, 27th March, are also missing.

Vol. III., 1824, beginning with No. 1, dated 1st January, the following numbers being missing: No. 3, 19th Feb.; No 24, 10th June; No 25, 17th June; No. 26, 24th June; and Nos. 33 to 53, from 12th Aug. to 30th Dec., 1824.

Vol. IV., 1825, No. 50, dated 15th December; a 1 the other numbers are missing. (See page xxiii.)

The Proclamations found in these volumes have been copied and published in this Report.

After the re-union of Upper and Lower Canada into the Province of Canada, the Canada Gazette was issued, beginning with No. 1 dat d 2nd October, 1841, and was published at Kingston, U.C. The Upper Canada Gazette, however, was continued for some years, when the official and legal notices were withdrawn from it.

In 1849 an Act (120, Victoria, chap. 26), was passed to provide for the insertion of certain Official and Legal Notices in the Canada Gazette only, in the following terms:

WHEREAS it would be more for the public convenience, if the Advertisements and Notices hereinafter mentioned were all inserted in the Canada Gazette, the circulation whereof is great and co-extensive with the Province, instead of some of them being inserted as they are now, in the said Canada Gazette, and others in the Quebec Gazette, published by Authority, or in the Upper-Canada Gazette, published by Authority, the circulation of both of which is limited and local: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, constituted and assembled by virtue of and under the authority of an Act passed in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, intituled, An Act to re-unite the Provinces of Upper and Lower-Canada, and for the Government of Canada, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after such day as shall be fixed by Proclamation for this Act to come into force, as hereinafter provided, all advertisements, notices or publications, which by any Act or Law in force in this Province or in any part thereof, are required to be inserted by the Provincial Government or any Department thereof, or by any Sheriff or other Officer, or by any Municipal authority or in the Upper-Canada Gazette by Authority, shall not be inserted therein, but shall be inserted in the Cannda Gazette, and being so inserted shall have the same effect to all intents and purposes whatsoever, as without this Act they would have had if inserted in the Quebec Gazette by Authority or in the Upper-Canada Gazette by Authority, for both of which the said Canada Gazette is hereby substituted, and to which the provisions of such Act or Law as aforesaid shall apply, as if it had been mentioned therein instead of the Gazettes aforesaid, or either of them; and if upon, or before the said day, any such advertisement, notice or publication shall have been inserted either in the said Quebec Gazette by Authority or the said Upper-Canada Gazette by Authority, for any period or number of times, and its insertion should be required under such Act or Law as aforesaid for a longer period or a greater number of times, then it shall be inserted in the said Canada Gazette for the remaining period or the remaining number of times, so as to make up the period or number of times required by such Act or Law.

II. And it shall be enacted, That this Act shall come into force, upon from and after such day as shall be appointed for that purpose in and by any Proclamation under the Great Seal that shall or may be issued for that purpose, and not before.

The Proclamation referred to in Sec. II. as above was issued on the 4th of Sept., 1849, as follows:

A PROCLAMATION.

(4 Sept., 1849.)

ROBERT BALDWIN, Attorney General.

WHEREAS at the session of our Provincial Parliament of Our Province of Canada, held at Our City of Montreal, on the Eighteenth day of January, in the twelfth year of Our Reign, and in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, there was passed amongst others a ce tain Act of the said Parliament, chaptered amongst the Public General Acts of the said Session as Chapter Twenty-six, and intituled, "An Act to provide for the insertion of certain Official and Legal Notices in the Canada Gazette only," and in and by

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which said Act it is amongst other things enacted, that the said Act shall come into force upon, from and after such day as shall be appointed for that purpose in and by any Proclamation under the Great Seal, that shall or may be issued for that purpose, and not before; And whereas We have thought fit, by and with the advice of Our Executive Council, of and for Our said Province, to fix Monday, the First day of October next, for such purpose. NOW KNOW YE, that by and with such advice as aforesaid, We have fixed and appointed, and by these presents do fix and appoint MONDAY, the first day of OCTOBER next, as the day upon, from and after which the said Act shall come into FULL FORCE and EFFECT; and We do hereby declare that upon, from and after the said first day of October aforesaid, the said Act of Parliament shall be and remain in full force. and effect; Of all which premises all Our loving subjects, and all others whom it doth or may in any wise concern, are hereby required to take notice and to govern themselves accordingly.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, We have cansed these Our Letters to be made Patent, and the Great Seal of Our Said Province of Canada to be hereunto affixed; WITNESS, Our Right Trusty and Right Well-Beloved Cousin JAMES, EARL OF ELGIN AND KINCARDINE, Knight of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, Governor-General of British North America, and CaptainGeneral and Governor-in-Chief in and over Our Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and the Island of Prince Edward, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c., &c. At Our Government House, in Our City of Montreal, in Our said Province, this FOURTH day of SEPTEMBER, in the year of Our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, and in the thirteenth day of Our Reign. J. LESLIE, Secretary.

A number of portraits are given of Governors-General and LieutenantGovernors by whom most of the proclamations in this volume were issued. Of these, Governor-General James Murray acted as Military Governor from 1760 to 1763, and as Governor-General from 1763 to 1767. Lord Dorchester was appointed Lieutenant-Governor and Acting Governor-General in 1766, and Governor-General in 1768, continuing until 1777, and resuming in 1786 to 1796. Governor-General Sir Frederick Haldimand was appointed GovernorGeneral in 1778, and held office until 1784. Lieutenant-Governor Simcoe, as first Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada, issued his first Proclamation from Quebec on the 7th February, 1792. The others, whose portraits follow, acted as administrators or as Lieutenant-Governors until 1841, when after the re-union of Upper and Lower Canada, Lord Sydenham resigned office.