To the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty

Most Gracious Sovereign, we, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the members of the Legislative Council of British Columbia in Council assembled, humbly approach Your Majesty for the purpose of representing, that, during the last session of the late Legislative Council, the subject of the admission of the colony of British Columbia into the Union or Dominion of Canada was taken into consideration, and a resolution on the subject was agreed to ...