No. 100

I have the honor to forward an authenticated and two plain
copies of an Ordinance of the recent Session of the local Legislature
entitled;

No 10. An Ordinance making provision for Barristers at
Law, Notories Public and Articled Clerks of the late Colony of
Vancouver Island.

I enclose the following documents.

1. The Attorney General's legal report on the measure.

2. A petition
from "certain Attorneys and Solicitors of the Supreme Court of
Civil Justice of Vancouver Island British Columbia" against the
allowance of the Ordinance and lastly a judgement given by Mr
Needham, late or present Chief Justice of Vancouver Island, ruling
that the Legislative Council of British Columbia has no power to
make laws affecting the Court over which Mr Needham continues
to preside. To this important paper Your Grace's attention will
be drawn in another despatch.

I think it convenient to enclose in this despatch another
Ordinance affecting the legal profession. It is entitled;
No. 20 An Act respecting the Legal Professions.