ENTERED according to Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year of our Lord, on

thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, by SAMUEL ROBINSON CLARKE, Barrister-at Law, in the Office of the Minister of Agriculture.

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TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE

SIR JOHN ALEXANDER MACDONALD, K. C.B.,

MINISTER OF JUSTICE

FOR THE

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