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I have the honor to transmit to you, Letters Patent which have been
passed under the Great Seal, declaring that the Commission granted to
Arthur Edward Kennedy, Esquire, C.B. as Governor of Vancouver Island
 should cease on the Union of that Island with British Columbia.

Although under the provisions of the Act 29 and 30 Victoria, Cap.
 67, of 1866, the Government of Vancouver Island would cease to have any
existence immediately on the Proclamation of the Act in question, by
the Governor of British Columbia, still it has been considered to be
 desirable that the Commission from which the last Governor of Vancouver Island derived his powers should be formally revoked, and the Patent
which I now forward has that distinct effect.