Dear Sir, we have the honor to inform you that, at a preliminary meeting of a number of the Liberals of Montreal ... on the fifth of March, instant the following resolution was adopted

that a committee be ... appointed, composed of the Honorable Messrs. Laflamme ... and L.H. Beaugrand ... with instructions to call a meeting of prominent Liberals of the district of Montreal ... to elect officers of the Reform Association, to consider a plan of party organization ...