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Peel 422

Assiniboia. Laws, statutes etc; Canada. Department of Justice. Laws of Assiniboia: Passed by the Governor and Council of Assiniboia on the 11th April, 1862. [Fort Garry, NWT: Printed at the Office of The Nor'-Wester, Red River Settlement, 1862].
Physical description: 8 p.; 26 cm.
Language: English
Also published, 2nd ed., Laws of Assiniboia, 1862-1869: Passed by the Governor and Council of Assiniboia, [Ottawa?]: [s.n.], [1870?] (19p.) and Digest of the laws of Assiniboia passed by the Governor and Council of Assiniboia [in April, 1862 with local enactments, in amendment, to December 10, 1870], Ottawa: J.B. Taylor, 1871 (pp.118-135). The second edition reprinted as Laws of Assiniboia: Passed by the Governor and Council of Assiniboia, April 11, 1862, [Toronto?]: [Carswell?], [1982?] (19p.).
Digest of the laws of Assiniboia passed by the Governor and Council of Assiniboia [in April, 1862 with local enactments, in amendment, to December 10, 1870] extracted from Canada Department of the Secretary of State, Return: Instructions to the Honourable A. Archibald, Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba and of the North-West Territory ..., Ottawa: Printed by J.B. Taylor by order of Parliament, 1871. This document is described separately in the bibliography.
The second edition, containing the accretions from 1862 to 1869, was printed at the request of Lt.-Gov. Archibald of Manitoba and the North-West Territories. Archibald said he had only been able to find one copy of the 1862 edition in the Red River Settlement. The 1st edition was formerly thought to be the first pamphlet printed in the Red River Settlement; for what is now thought to be the first, see Peel 401.