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Déclarations du Gouvernement Provisoire
- Fonds / Collection
- Louis Riel
- Description Level
- Document
- Document Type
- documents textuels
- Scope and Content
- Document de la main de Louis Riel.
- Document Type
- documents textuels
- Fonds / Collection
- Louis Riel
- Description Level
- Document
- Fonds No.
- 0003
- Reference No.
- 0003/1093/R568
- Creator
- Louis Riel
- Signatory
- Louis Riel
- Physical Description
- f. de documents textuels
- Scope and Content
- Document de la main de Louis Riel.
- Notes
- CD293
- Scope and Content (English)
- Declaration of the Provisional Government
- By virtue of the authority accorded to us the representatives of the people as announced in a proclamation of Dec. 8th last, to provide for public order and safety.
- We declare (1) that from this day until further order, all the laws in force under the last government will continue; (2) that all public officers hold and will continue to hold their places until the council decides otherwise; (3) that all judicial matters and all serious offences against the laws will be presented before a court approved by the provisional government, at the same time as the courts under the former government; (4) that the councillors in each district will be judge of the peace for matters left to their jurisdiction by the law; (5) the public officers will be accountable for money in their care to the provisional government.
- Name Access
- Louis Riel
- Storage Location
- PAM MG 3 D 1, 568
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