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ADDRESSES 
 
 PRESENTED TO HIS EXCELLENCY 
 
 A.. E. KENNEDY, C. B., 
 
 ON ASBUMmO THE QOVERNMENT OF 
 
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No. 1, — Legislative Council. 
 
 To His Bxcellenct ARTHUR EDWARD KENNEDY, Esquire, 
 Companion op ihe Most Honorable Order op the Bath, 
 Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Colony 
 op Vancouver Island and its Dependencies, Vice Admiral op 
 the SAME, Ac, <fec., Ac: 
 
 May it please your Excellency : 
 
 We, the Members of the Legislative Council of Vancouver Island 
 in Parliament assembled, desire to congratulate your Excellency 
 upon assuming tlie Government of this Colony. 
 
 We humbly trust that the dignity and the virtues of our Most 
 Gracious Sovereign, as reflected in your person, may strengthen and 
 stimulate feelings of attachment in the people of Vancouver Island 
 so that the demonstration of loyalty upon this, your Excellency's 
 advent, may continue unabated throughout your administration. 
 
 And we feel assured that your experience in other portions of her 
 Majesty's dominions will enable you to guide the affairs of this young 
 Colony so as to ensure a rapid advance in material wealth and 
 importance. 
 
 (Signed) DAVID CAMERON, C. J., 
 
 President. 
 
 128555 
 
 MMiiilfeiita 
 
(4) 
 
 No. 2, — House of Assembly. 
 
 To Hrs ExcELLEXCv ARTHUR EDWARD KENNEDY, Esquire, 
 
 COMPAXION OF THE MoST HONORABLE OrDEB OP THE BaTH, 
 
 Governor axd Commaxder-in-Chief i\ and over the Colony 
 OF Vancouver Island and its Dependencies, Vice Admiral of 
 the same tfc. Ac. Ac: 
 
 We. her Majesty 5 loyal and faithful subjects, the Members of the 
 Legislative Assembly of the Colony of Vancouver's Island and its 
 Dependencies, beg to offer to your Excellency our respectful 
 congratulation? upon the occasion of your assuming the functions of 
 Governor of thi? Colonv. 
 
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 As it is our duty, so will it be on all occasions our anxious desire 
 to aid you in the administration of the affairs of the Colony and to 
 co-operate in such lejrislative measures as may be deemed most 
 conducive to the welfare and progress of our young and rising 
 Colony. 
 
 In thus tendering yon our welcome, we pray that it may please 
 Almighty God to vouchsafe to you health and happiness and that 
 under your fostering influence and guidance the Colony may continue 
 to prosper and flourish. 
 
 (Signed) J. S. HELMCKEN, 
 
 Speaker. 
 
 LEOisLAnvG AS8E3IBLT. March 30th, 1864. 
 
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 No. 3, — Municipal Council of Victoria. 
 
 3QUIBE, 
 
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 Unto His Excellency CAPTAIN A. E. KENNEDY, Companion 
 OP THE Most Honobaiile Order op the Bath, Governor op the 
 Colony op Vancouter Island and its Dependencies, Vice 
 Admiral op the same : 
 
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 3Fny It plea«e your Excellency : 
 
 We, tlie undersigned, Mayor and Councillors of the City of Vic- 
 toria, Vancouver Island, beg to approach your Excellency iu order 
 to express to you, on your arrival here as Governor of the Colony, 
 our loyal devotion and strong attachment to our beloved Queen 
 Victoria, whose representative in this Colony you are. 
 
 We feci we shall at all times find in your Excellency an able 
 advocate and supporter of all d easures which may tend to advance 
 the interests of the City of Victoria, and that your Excellency will 
 render us every assistance in the discharge of our official duties 
 towards the public and welfare of the City. 
 
 That with the great experience your Excellency brings with you 
 from the sister Colony, we feel confident that you will administer the 
 Government of this Island with honor to yourself and satisfaction to 
 her Majesty's subjects. 
 
 That your Excellency may be spared for many years amongst us to 
 enjoy the benefits of this salubrious climate and to witness the rapid 
 
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 development and progress of this the principal city of her Majesty's 
 possessions in the Pacific is our earnest liopo and desire. 
 
 Given under our hands and corporate seal of the City 
 of Victoria, Vancouver Island, this nineteenth 
 day of March, Anno Domini 1864. 
 
 (Signed) THOS. HARRIS, Mayor. 
 
 W. B. STRONACH, Councillor. 
 
 w. J. McDonald, 
 
 ROBERT WALLACE, 
 JAMES GRAHAMSI.AW, 
 ROBERT EWING, 
 CHARLES ^. BUNTING, 
 
 (Signed) Algernon Austen, Town Clerk. 
 
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 No. 4,"The Chamber of Commerce. 
 
 To Hifl Excellency ARTHUR EDWARD KENNEDY, 
 
 Companion of the Most Honorable Order op the Bath, 
 Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony op 
 Vancouver Island and its Dependencies, «fec., Ac; 
 
 Thehumblo Address of the Chamber of Commerce of the C'ty of 
 Victoria. 
 
 ^fay it fUeas') •»/>?, ■• Excellency : 
 
 "Wc, the members of the Chamber of Commerce of tho City of 
 Victoria, avail ourselves of the auspicious occasion of your Excellency's 
 safe arrival and of your assuming the reins of Government, to assure 
 you of our devoted attachment and respect to her most gracious 
 Majesty the Queen, and our feeling that in the appointment of a 
 gentleman of your Excellency's tried experience and ability in colonial 
 administration, her Majesty has furnished us with a convincing proof 
 that distant and comparatively unimportant as it is amidst the vast 
 dependencies of the British Empire, oven this Colony partakes of her 
 Majesty's fostering care and attention. 
 
 Under the enlightened free-trade policy inaugurated by your 
 Excellency's respected predecessor, and which has attracted hither 
 merchants and other immigrants of all nationalities, this city has 
 already attained an importance, which the most sanguine could not 
 have anticipated at the time of its foundation, and it is our unanimous 
 conviction, that by a faithful adherance to that policy alone, can we 
 look forward to its becoming tho chief distributing commercial 
 depot of the North Pacific. 
 
 The enterprises heretofore contemplated for the development of the 
 material resources of the Colony, such as telegraphic communication 
 
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 with the Atlantic seaboard, a British mail line to Panama, a graving 
 dock at Esquimau, a more extensive opening of our coal fields 
 and mines of precious and the baser metals, our agricultural lands, 
 valuable timber forests and inexhaustible fisheries, are retarded by 
 the want of means to put them into successful operation, and we hope 
 that under your Excellency's auspices British and foreign capital may 
 be invited and encouraged hither, and that all projects tending to the 
 benefit of the Colony will receive your Excellency's countenance and 
 protection. 
 
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 In conclusion, we trust that your Excellency may long enjoy health 
 and happiness, and that under your administration you may have the 
 satisfaction of witnessing the successful progress of British commerce 
 on the Pacific Ocean in connection with the Colony of Vancouver 
 Island. 
 
 On behalf of the members, 
 
 (Signed) CHAS. W. WALLACE, Jr , President. 
 
 JULES DAVID, Vice President. 
 P. M. BACKUS. 
 
 THOS. LETT STAHLSCHMIDT, 
 LUMLEY FRANKLIN. 
 
 (Signed) A, F. Main, Secretary. 
 
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 No. 5, — Inhabitants of Esquimalt. 
 
 To His Excellency Captain ARTHUR EDWARD KENNEDY, 
 C. B.: 
 
 The humble Address of the Inhabitants of Esquimalt, 
 
 May it please your Excellency : 
 
 We, the inliabitants of Esquimalt, hail with satisfaction your arrival 
 in this Colony of Vancouver Island and its Dependencies, and rejoice 
 that it has pleased Almighty God to conduct you safely to our shores. 
 
 In approaching your Excellency with this humble address, we 
 declare our fealty and attachment to the person of our gracious 
 Sovereign who has been pleased to appoint you to govern this distant 
 portion of her dominions, and we congratulate you on this auspicious 
 day with that unity of sentiment which pervades here and animates 
 the loyal hearts of all her Majesty's subjects in this highly favored 
 haven of Esquimalt. 
 
 And with sentiments of profound regard and attaclunent to your 
 person, and the high and distinguished office which you are called 
 upon to fill as her Majesty's representative, we present you with this 
 humble address and greet you with a cordial welcome on this twenty- 
 fifth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight 
 hundred and sixty four. 
 
 Signed on belialf of the inhabitants of Esquimalt. 
 
 (Signed) WILLIAM FISHER, 
 
 Chairman. 
 
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 No,. 6,— The Inhabitants of Vancottvei 
 
 Island. 
 
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 To His ExcELLENav ARTHUR EDWARD KENNEDY, Esquire, 
 Companion of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, 
 Governor of Vancouver Island and its Dependencies, Ac, 
 Ac. Ac. 
 
 May it please ymir Excellency : 
 
 We, her Majesty's most loyal and loving subjects of Vancouver 
 Island, hasten to express to your Excellency, as the represeiitative of 
 our most gracious Sovereign Queen Victoria, our unfeigned 
 attachment to her person and Government, and we pray that a 
 beneficient Providence may permit us long to enjoy the benefits of 
 her enlightened and peaceful reign. 
 
 Remote as we are from the seat of empire and sub; it to the 
 disadvantages incident to new countries, we nevertheic beg to 
 assure your Excellency that you may at all times depend tyon our 
 cordial support in every measure calculated to foster the principles 
 of devoted loyalty to the Crown and the institutions of the realm and 
 to advance the interests of this our adopted home. 
 
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 We hail with much satisfaction the manifestation of the royal 
 confidence in your Excellency's tried ability and in favoring us with 
 the advantage of your experience in colonial administration. 
 
 We therefore most cordially congratulate your Excellency on your 
 safe arrival among us, and pray that health and happiness may be 
 
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 THE BlTH, 
 
 ENGIE8, Ac, 
 
 Vancouver 
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 he realm and 
 
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 )ring us with 
 ion. 
 
 ency on your 
 iness maybe 
 
 vouchsafed to yon and that success may ever attend your 
 administration of the affairs of this Colony. 
 
 We have the honor to be, Sir, 
 
 Your Excellency's most obedient, humble servants, 
 
 (Signed) J. W. POWELL. 
 
 Signed on behalf of the 
 Inhabitants. 
 
 CHARLES STREET. 
 
 w. J. Mcdonald. 
 
 W. B. STRONACH. 
 JOHN T. PIDWELL. 
 
 1285^j 
 
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 No. 7, — Inhabitants of Nanaimo. 
 
 To His Excellency ARTHUR EDWARD KENNEDY, Esqdirb, 
 C. B., Governor op the Colony op Vancouver Island and its 
 Dependencies, &c., &c.: 
 
 May it please your Excellency : 
 
 We, the inhabitants of Nanaimo, in public meeting assembled, 
 desire to convey to your Excellency our sincere coDgratulations upon 
 your safe arrival in this young and promising Colony as the 
 representative of our beloved Sovereign Queen Victoria, to whose 
 person and throne wc are deeply attached, as also to those institutions 
 of the great Empire of which she is the illustrious head. 
 
 We beg to assure your Excellency of our loyalty and earnest desire 
 to aid to the utmost of our ability in the maintenance of order and 
 good government, and in planting and fostering the tried and 
 honored institutions of our loved Britain in this our adopted land. 
 
 We trust also to have the pleasure at an early day of offering to 
 your Excellency a personal welcome to our little Town, whose 
 exports are of no little consequence to the welfare ond progress of 
 this Island. 
 
 Permit us also to add our kindest wishes to Mrs. Kennedy and 
 family, and which we hope your Excellency will convey to them. 
 
 We have the honor to be, 
 
 Your Excellency's obedient servants. 
 
 Signed by ord ir and ) (Signed) ROBERT DUNSMUIR, 
 on behalf of the > 
 Meeting. ) Chairman. 
 
 (Signed) Alex'r Jabvie, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
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 No. 8,— St. Andrew's Society. 
 
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 nd and its 
 
 assembled, 
 itions upon 
 my as the 
 a, to whose 
 institutions 
 
 ■nest desire 
 order and 
 tried and 
 
 ;ed land. 
 
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 progress of 
 
 ennedy and 
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 Miairman. 
 
 To His Excellency Captain ARTHUR EDWARD KENNEDY, 
 C. B.. Governor op Vancouver Island. «fec.,<fec.: 
 
 Sir:— 
 
 The brotherhood of St. Andrew, to which we belong, desire to 
 offer you their congratulations upon your arrival in this Colony, and 
 to express to you, as the representative of their Sovereign, the 
 undying feelings of loyal reverence and deep love for their fatherland 
 which animate every true Scotchman in this remote dependency of 
 Britain. 
 
 Our Society was originally formed to aid in keeping alive such 
 wholesome sentiments as well as to minister to the relief of 
 necessitous fellow-countrymen. 
 
 It is now in the fifth year of its existence. 
 
 Its older members have seen the gradual ri:;!e and increase of this 
 City from a very small beginning to a position of importance and 
 prosperity that promises yet greater things. 
 
 The energy and perseverance of Scotchmen— we arc proud to say 
 of ^ .ottish ruler-have largely contributed to bring about this 
 result. 
 
 It is our confident hope that under your auspices these promises 
 will be amply realized, and that you will find, in the sons of Scotland, 
 men ever ready to aid your endeavors to promote the moral and 
 material well-being of the people committed to your charge. 
 
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 Accept, Sir, this expression of our respect towards yourself and the 
 high office that has been conferred upon you, as well as of our hearty 
 wishes for the health and happiness of your family in this their new 
 home amongst us. 
 
 We have the honor to be, Sir, 
 
 Your faithful and obedient servants, 
 
 (Signed) 
 
 J AS. D. WALKER, President. 
 
 JOHN J. COCHRANE, Vice Prest. 
 
 JNO. G. McKAY, 1st Vice Prest. 
 
 MATT. B. BEGBIE, Hon. Vice Prest. 
 
 A. D. MACDONALD, Treasurer. 
 
 DAVID D. BLAIR, Secretary. 
 
 R. J. DUNDAS, M. A., Chaplain. 
 
 JAMES TRIMBLE, M. D. 
 
 JAS. S. DRUMMOND, Manager. 
 
 J. ROBERTSON STEWART; Manager. 
 
 A. P. MAIN, Manager. 
 
 JAMES LOWE, Manager. 
 
 THOMAS LOWE, Manager. 
 
 ROBERT WALLACE, Manager. 
 
 WILLIAM DOWNIE. 
 
 J. WADDELL. 
 
 JAMES M. RBTD. 
 
 DANIEL SCOTT. 
 
 CHAS. W. WALLACE, Jr. 
 
 D. M. LANG. 
 
 JOHN CULLEN COLQUHOUN. 
 
 JOHN WRIGHT. 
 
 JAMES STROCHAN. 
 
 ALEX'R CLINK. 
 
 ANDREW ROBERTSON. 
 
 JAMES CARSWELL. 
 
 JAMES K. SUTER 
 
 ALEX. P. ANDERSON. 
 
 WILLIAM FRASER TOLMIE. 
 
 W. MUIR. 
 
 MALCOM MUNRO. 
 
 .r. A. McGRRA. 
 
 GEO. CRUICKSHAXK. 
 
 JOHN WILKIE. 
 
 DANIEL LINDSAY. 
 
 P. CADELL. 
 
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 No. 9,— Firemen's Address. 
 
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 Manager. 
 
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 To His Excellency ARTHUR B. KENNEDY, C. B.: 
 
 May it please your Excellency : 
 
 We, the members of the Fire Department of the City of Victoria, 
 ever animated by a proper sense of respect for, and duty to her most 
 gracious Majesty's representative in this Colony, do most sincerely 
 congratulate your Excellency on your safe arrival amongst us, and 
 pray that your administration may be blessed with such resultb as 
 will reflect honor on yourself and give satisfaction to all. 
 
 May this City long be preserved from that devastating element we 
 have volunteered to watch over and arrest ; but though our services 
 have been little required hitherto, we trust that if the day should 
 unfortunately arrive when there would be need of a vigorous display 
 of them, we shall not be found wanting, and that the institution will 
 be deemed by your Excellency not to have been unworthy of the 
 care hitherto bestowed on it, and deserving a continuance of the 
 same. 
 
 We have the honor to be, 
 
 Your Excellency's very obedieu'" servants. 
 
 (Signed) J. A. McCREA, 
 
 CHAS. W. WALLACE, Jr. 
 CHAS. GOWEN. 
 JNO. DICKSON. 
 E. H. JACKSON, 
 PHILIP J. HALL. 
 
 (Signed) John C. Keenan, Chief Engineer. 
 
 Victoria, V. I., Marcli 26th, 1864. 
 
 Committee 
 in behalf of 
 
 the Fire 
 Department. 
 
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No. 10,— Caledonian Benevolent 
 Association. 
 
 To His' Excellency GOVERNOR KENNEDY, C. B.: 
 
 May it please your Excellency : 
 
 We, the Chairman, oiScers and members of the Caledonian 
 Benevolent Association of Victoria, beg to offer you a hearty Scotch 
 welcome to this Island. 
 
 We trust you may be long spared, and that an 'all gracious 
 Providence may lead you to devise such measures as may prove most 
 conducive to the best interests of the Colony at large. 
 
 Assuring you, as the representative of our most gracious Sovereign, 
 of our support, 
 
 We have the lionor to be. 
 
 Your Excellency's most obedient and humble servants. 
 
 Victoria, V. I., March, 1864. 
 
 .JOHN COPLAND, Chairman. 
 
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 No. 11,— Pioneer Rifle Company. 
 
 D.B.: 
 
 Caledonian 
 jarty Scotch 
 
 all gracious 
 r prove most 
 
 lis Sovereign, 
 
 ervants, 
 Chairman. 
 
 To His Excellency ARTHUR EDWARD KENNEDY, C. B.: 
 
 May it please your ExceUenqf : 
 
 We, the members of the Victoria Pioneer Rifle Company, beg leave 
 to express our thankfulness and gratification at the safe arrival of 
 your Excellency and family, and our unaltered devotion to the person 
 and Government of her most gracious Majesty Queen Victoria. 
 
 Our only regret is that in the general rejoicing over your 
 Excellency's arrival we were precluded, on account of an anti-English 
 prejudice against our color, of doing ourselves the honor as well as 
 pleasure of taking part in the procession as a military company — a 
 company whose highest aim is to be of service to Her Majesty, and 
 whose greatest privilege is to be her Majesty'? most loyal subjects. 
 
 To your Excellency's predecessor. Sir James Douglas, is due the 
 organization of this company, which, with all its imperfections, is at 
 least the only representative of the British volunteer element in the 
 Colony. 
 
 We hope, under your Excellency's administration no occasion may 
 arise requiring our military services ; if, however, the time should 
 come when internal or external dangers should threaten the country, 
 we hope to prove by deeds that the arms we carry are in no unworthy 
 hands, and that the allegiance which we owe to her Majesty we are 
 ready with our lives to pay. 
 
 It is to us a source of extreme satisfaction to know that your 
 Excellency's opinions agree with that basis upon which the greatness 
 of the British law is built— the non-recognition of distinction in class, 
 creed, color, or nationality — principles that found in your great 
 
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 Curpan so eloquent an expounder in days gone by, and which have 
 placed Great Britain in the van of liberty, Christianity and 
 civiliKation. 
 
 We have the honor to be, sir. 
 
 Your Excellency's most humble and ob't servants, 
 
 (Signed on behalf of the company) R. H. JOHNSON, 
 
 Captain. 
 
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 IKKK«E3'i^SISSST3!lCS 
 
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 No. 12,— Chinese Compliments trans- 
 lated into English. 
 
 V. 1. 1864 year, 4th Month, 2d day. 
 
 Us Chinesemen Greeting thee Excellency in first degree, 
 ARTHUR EDWARD KENNEDY, thee in first rank country 
 NAME Vancouver, with hangers to it. 
 
 All us here be dwellers at Victoria, this Island and Columbia 
 British much wish to show mind of dutiful loyalty to this Kingdom 
 Mother, Victoria Queen, for much square and equal kingdom rule 
 of us. 
 
 Just now most humbly offer much joined mind of compliments to 
 
 thee Excellency Governor Kennedy on stepping to this land of 
 
 Vancouver that thee be no longer in danger of typhoon, us much 
 delighted. 
 
 Us be here from year 1858, and count over two thousand Chinese. 
 
 Chinese countrymen much like that so few of us have been 
 chastised for breaking kingdom rule. 
 
 This kingdom rule very different fropn China. Chinese mind 
 feel much devoted to Victoria Queen for the protection and 
 distributive rule of him Excellency Old Governor Sir James Douglas. 
 80 reverse to California ruling when applied to us Chinese 
 countrymen. ' 
 
 Us believing success will come in obeying rulers, not breaking 
 links, holding on to what is right and true. 
 
 In trading hope is good and look out large big prospects for time 
 to come. 
 
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 Us like this, no chango place, soo it will grow and grow liiijlier to 
 highest, can seo a Canton will be in Victoria of this Pacific. 
 
 The maratime enterprises will add up wondorfull}- and conio quick. 
 China has silk, tea, rice and sugar, <fec.: hero is lumber, coil and 
 minerals in return. Here is lumber, coal, minerals and fish an 
 exhaustless supply, which no other land can surpass 
 
 In ending us confide in gracious hope in Thee First Degree and 
 First Rank and First Links and trust our California neighbors may 
 not exercise prejudice to our grief. 
 
 Us merchants in Chinese goods in Victoria mark our names in 
 behalf of us and Chinese countrymen. Wishing good luck and 
 prosperity to all ranks, and will continue to bo faithful and true. 
 
 Us Chinesemen much please Excellency continue to give favor 
 always. 
 
 Us remember to Thee. 
 
 (Signed) 
 
 KWONG LEE & CO. 
 
 By Lee Chang. 
 YAN WO. 
 SANG & CO., 
 
 By Cangtsoo. 
 TAI SOONG & CO., 
 
 By ToNG Kee. 
 TONG FAT. 
 
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 No. 13,--Clepgy of the United Church 
 of England and Ireland. 
 
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 To His Excellency ARTHUR EDWARD KENNEDY, Companion 
 OP THE Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and 
 Commander-in-Chief of Vancouver Island and its 
 Dependencies : 
 
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 May it 'please your Excellencif : 
 
 We, the undersigned, Clergy of the United Church of England and 
 Ireland in Vancouver Island, beg to express our heartfelt 
 congratulations on the safe arrival of yourself and family in this 
 Colony, and take the earliest opportunity of expressing to you, as 
 her Majesty's representative, our profound respect. 
 
 As members of that church of which, through the providence of 
 God, her most gracious Majesty is the temporal head, we desire to 
 convey to your Excellency the assurance of our entire loyalty and 
 attachment to her Majesty's person and Government, as well as of 
 duty to your Excellency, as her tried and honored servant. 
 
 We trust and believe that your Excellency will ever find in the 
 clergy and members of the Church of England in this Colony, as a 
 body, the order and loyalty which good government ever tends to 
 inspire, and which the principles of our church so especially inculcate. 
 As citizens, we feel entitled to avail ourselves, as occasion requires, 
 of those rights and liberties which it is the happy privilege of British 
 subjects to enjoy. As Christians we wish to be instrumental in 
 promoting that tone of public sentiment and private virtue which we 
 are persuaded that nothing but the Scriptures on which our ministry 
 is based can generate or maintain ; and as churchmen, while viewing 
 
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 with satisfaction and without envy, good works by whomsoever done 
 we desire to hold fast for our own guidance, unmolested and 
 unreproved, those principles which have singularly blessed our nation, 
 and which we sincerely believe, when rightly applied, are 
 pre-eminently conducive to the diifusion of sound religion. 
 
 In contemplating the arduous charge imposed upon your 
 Excellency, we feel, notwithstanding your Excellency's well-known 
 ability and experience, how much need you still have of that wisdom 
 which cometh from above ; and trust that we shall never cease, by 
 our heartfelt prayers to implore that such aid may be abundantly 
 vouchsafed. 
 
 E. CRIDGE, B. A.. 
 
 Rector of Christ Church Parish. 
 ROBERT J. DUNDAS, M. A., 
 
 Rector of St. John's, Chaplain to the 
 Bisliop of Columbia. 
 CHARLES WOOD, M. A., 
 
 Principal of the Collegiate School. 
 A. C. GARRET, B. A., 
 
 Principal of Indian Missions. 
 W. S. REECE, M. A., 
 
 Vice Principal of the Boys Collegiate 
 School. 
 P. L. LOWE, B. A.. 
 
 Minister of Saanich. 
 
 J. J. GOOD, 
 
 Minister of St. Paul's Church, Nanaimo. 
 
 C. KNIPE, M. A., 
 
 Missionary at Alberni, Barclay Sound. 
 
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 No. 14,--Church of Scotland. 
 
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 To His Excellency ARTHUR EDWARD KENNEDY, Esquire, 
 C. B.: 
 
 May it please your Excellency : 
 
 The members and adherents of the Church and Congregation of 
 St. Andrew in connection with the Church of Scotland unite rith 
 their fellow-citizens in welcoming your Excellency to the seat of your 
 Government in this Colony. 
 
 Not forgetful of the spirit and traditions of the church established 
 in their native land, and to which they adiiere, they gladly embrace 
 this oppportunity to express their loyal devotion to the Sovereign of 
 whom your Excellency is the representative in this Colony, and to 
 assure your Excellency that they shall always evince that devotion 
 by respecting the rights and prerogatives of the high office which you 
 have been appointed to administer. 
 
 The members and adherents if the Church of Scotland earnestly 
 pray that in the administration of the affairs of this Colony your 
 Excellency may succeed in attaching the cordial respect and 
 co-operation of all classes of the community, and that the fruits of 
 your admin'stration in the advancement and consolidation of the 
 Colonial interests may bring to your Excellency the same honorable 
 satisfaction which it has been your happiness to reap in a former 
 sphere of colonial rule. 
 
 The members and adherents of the Church of Scotland beg to be 
 
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 permitted to add their cordial wishes for the welfare and happiness 
 of your Excellency and family in your new home. 
 
 (Signed) 
 
 JAMES NIMMO, 
 
 Minister Church of Scotland. 
 D, M. LANG, 
 
 Elder. 
 ROBERT WALLACE, 
 
 Chairman of Committee. 
 DAVID B. BLAIR, 
 
 Secretary for the Congregation. 
 ALEX. WATSON. 
 ROBERT STIRLING. 
 ANDREW WELCH. 
 JOHN ANDERSON. 
 JAMES BURNS. 
 D. TURNER. 
 
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 No. 15, — Congregational Church. 
 
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 To His Excellenct ARTHUR EDWARD KENNEDY, Esquibe, 
 Companion op the Most Honobable Obdeb op the Bath, 
 
 GOVERNOE AND CoMMANDEB-IN-ChIEP OP VaNCOUVEE ISLAND 
 
 AND ITS Dependencies, &c. &c.: 
 
 ]\Jny it pkasp- your Excellency : 
 
 We the minister, members and adherents of the Congregational 
 Church ill this City, ecclesiastical descendants of the English Puritans 
 and the Protector of the Commonwealth beg, in approaching your 
 Excelleney, to do ourselves the honor of joining in the general and 
 hearty welcome accorded to you by our fellow-citizens of other 
 religious denominations on your arrival in this remote but important 
 dependency oi Great Britain as representative of our most gracious 
 .Sovereign. 
 
 Grateful for the liberty we enjoy under the protection of law to 
 worship Almighty God according to the preferences of judgment and 
 the dictate of conscience, we desire to assure your Excellency that the 
 sentiments of loyalty to the Throne and affectionate admiration for 
 the personal virtues of her Majesty which have ever distinguished 
 Congregationalists in other parts of the British Dominions shall 
 continue to be warmly cherished by us. 
 
 By the able manner in which your Excellency has exercised 
 administrative functions in other Colonies and the high esteem with 
 which your official services were rewarded by her Majesty's subjects 
 in the "sections of the Empire you governed, we are encouraged to 
 hope that the period of your rosidenco among us, so auspiciously 
 inaugurated, will, under Divine guidance, be associated in our local 
 history with an accession of prosperity in every department of 
 enterprise and in every organization for the public good that will 
 
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 prove a source of gratification to your Excellency, endear your name 
 to the present generation and render it illustrious to our remotest 
 posterity. 
 
 May Providence bless your Excellency and your family with the 
 enjoyment of uninterrupted health and happiness. 
 
 Signed on behalf of the Congregation 
 (Signed) 
 
 MATT. MACFIE, Minister. 
 
 ALEX. D. MACnONALD, 1 
 
 ALEX. MONRO, 
 
 J. BISSETT, }■ Trustees. 
 
 W. M. SEARBY, 
 
 DANIEL LINDSAY, 
 
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 No. 16,--First Presbyterian Church. 
 
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 To His Excellenct ARTHUR EDWARD KENNEDY, C, B, 
 Governor and Commandeb-in-Chiep ofVancouveb Island and 
 ITS Dependencies, <fec., &c.: 
 
 May it jAease your ExoeUerwy : 
 
 As representatives of the First Presbyterian Church of Vancouver 
 Island, we desire to approach your Excellency with feelings of 
 profound respect. 
 
 Taucht from early life to entertain loyalty to the Throne, and a 
 hi-h opinion of the Imperial Constitution, under which we enjoy our 
 civil, social and religious immunises, we esteem it a ^uty and 
 privilege to pray and labor for the peace and prosperity of the 
 Empire at large, especially of the infant Colony with which our 
 interests are identified and to which we welcome your Excellency. 
 
 While it would become us to hail with high respect the advent of 
 any re<r&\ representative whom our most gracious Sovereign might be 
 pleased to appoint, we beg to assure your Excellency of the great 
 pleasure your acceptance of office has afforded us, and since by a kind 
 Providence you have been brought in safety to our shores, we rejoice 
 to see you take hold of the helm of state, and promise to aid you in 
 our respective spheres, to promote the interest of the people while 
 we confidently look forward to a successful administration under the 
 auspices of your Excellency. 
 
 Victoria, V. I., April, A, D., 1864. 
 
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 Signed on behalf of the Congregation by— 
 
 (Signed) 
 
 JOHN HALL, Pies. Minister. 
 DAVID CAMERON. 
 GEO. CRUICKSHANK. 
 JOHN WRIGHT. 
 WM. L. MITCHELL. 
 J. H. TURNER. 
 JOHN WILKIE. 
 
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 No. 17,--V. I. & B. C. Mission District. 
 
 To His Excellency ARTHUR EDWARD KENNEDY, Esouibb, 
 Companion op the Most Honorable Order op the Bath, 
 Governor over the Colony op Vancouver Island and its 
 Dependencies, Ac, «fec., &c.: 
 
 May it please your Excellency : 
 
 We her Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects Ministers of the 
 Vancouver Island and British Colu.ibian Mission District, under 
 direction of the Wesleyau Methodist Church in Canada, in connection 
 with the British Conference, beg to tender our sincere congratulation 
 on the safe arrival of your Excellency aad family, and upon the 
 assumption of the administrative functions vested in your Excellency 
 by our most gracious Sovereign. 
 
 To the Throne and institutions under which it is our privilege to 
 live we assure your Excellency of our devoted attachment. To "fear 
 God" and " honor the Queen" are Scriptural duties obllg-atory upon 
 every resident in the British Empire, and which we fail not (everywhere 
 to inculcate upon the people committed to our pastoral chf.rge. 
 
 From the early existence of the Colony it has been our aim and 
 effort to promote the moral and religious interests alike of the 
 colonist*, and the aborigines and we have confidence that in the 
 prosecution of our arduous work we shall continue, under your 
 Excellency's administration, to receive, in common with other 
 branches of the Christian Church, equal and impartial protection and 
 countenance. 
 
Our feryept prayers ace pffer^d tp Alt^if^hty God that His signal 
 favor may rest upon your Excellency and family ; that in your 
 Excellency's public administration you may be under the constant 
 guidance of His unerring counsel ; and that by His blessing upon the 
 application of your acquired experience and known ability this 
 Colony, so successfully founded, may continue to advance in piety, 
 intelligence, industry, wealth and all that can contribute to the glory 
 of the great Empire of which it is a constituent part. 
 
 Signed by order and on behalf of the District Meeting. 
 
 EPH'M EVANS. D. D., 
 
 ChaifH.an qf V. I. and p. C. District. 
 
 VicTouiA. V. I., March 28th, 1864.