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Canada. Department of the Secretary of State. Return: Instructions to the Honorable A. Archibald, Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba and of the North-West Territory, &c., &c.. Ottawa: Printed by I.B. Taylor by order of Parliament, 1871.
Physical description: 125, 5, 5 p., tables.; 24 cm.
Language: English
At head of title: "34 Victoria. Sessional papers (no. 20). A. 1871." Includes digest of laws of Assiniboia. Consists of correspondence between the Dominion government and the Lieutenant-Governor on such topics as postal arrangements, customs, census, elections for House of Commons, international boundary, and laws of Assiniboia. Supplementary returns contain correspondence with the Imperial government over the Manitoba Act, and the survey system to be inaugurated in Manitoba.
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