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 local interests, consolidated in both Provinces, by provincial enactments, and now rendered necessary to the happiness of each: and that it will excite jealousies and discontent in a people warmly attached to their present Constitution.

As Councillors, chosen by your Majesty, in this Province, we should feel ourselves guilty of a dereliction of our duty, did we not most humbly submit to your Majesty our opinion, that the Union of the two Legislatures will also have a direct tendency to weaken and embarrass the Administration of your Majesty's Government, and ultimately to create discontents in the minds of your Majesty's faithful subjects in this Colony.

We, therefore, earnestly implore your Majesty to be graciously pleased to avert from this Province, a measure which has excited genera alarm, and appears to us to be fraught with so much evil.

Address of the Assembly of Lower Canada
TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

May it please your Majesty,

We your Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the Assembly of the Province of Lower Canada, in Provincial Parliament assembled, respectfully entreat your Majesty to accept our humble thanks for the communication to us, according to your Majesty's order, by his Excellency the Right Honorable the Earl of Dalhousie, your Governor-in-Chief of this Province, in his speech at the opening of the present Session, of information that your Majesty's Ministers having proposed to Parliament certain alterations in the Act of the Thirty-first year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Third, chapter thirty-first, chiefly with a view of uniting the two Legislatures of Upper and Lower Canada, the plan had been withdrawn and postponed to the next Session, to