[19:  Thirteen other patents were left unsigned by the lieutenant-governor and consequently had no legal force.]

[20:  “Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Charles Lord Sydenham, G.C.B.,” edited by his brother G. Poulett-Scrope, M.P.; London, 1843.]

[21:  Sir Francis Hincks’s “Reminiscences of his Public Life,” p. 283.]

[22:  See on these points an excellent article on the feudal system of Canada in the Queen’s Quarterly (Kingston, January, 1899) by Dr. W. Bennett Munro.  Also Droit de banalite, by the same, in the report of the Am.  Hist Ass., Washington, for 1899, Vol.  I.]

[23:  “Spencerwood,” the governor’s private residence.]

[24:  See article on Lord Elgin in “Encyclopaedia Britannica” (9th ed.), Vol.  VIII., p. 132.]

[25:  In the “North British Review,” quoted by Waldron, pp. 458-461.]

[26:  Lord Elgin’s eldest son (9th Earl) Victor Alexander Brace, who was born in 1849, at Monklands, near Montreal, was Viceroy of India 1894-9.  See Debrett’s Peerage, arts.  Elgin and Thurton for particulars of Lord Elgin’s family.]

[27:  See Mr. Howe’s eloquent speeches on the organization of the empire, in his “Speeches and Public Letters,” (Boston, 1859), vol.  II., pp. 175-207.]

[28:  See on this subject Todd’s “Parliamentary Government in the British Colonies,” pp. 313-329.]

[29:  See Todd’s “Parliamentary Government in England,” vol.  II., p. 101.]

[30:  He was speaker of the House of Representatives from 1895 to 1899.]

[31:  “Congressional Government,” pp. 301, 332.]

[32:"The English Constitution,” pp. 95, 96.]

[33:  In the International Review, March, 1877.]

[34:  “Congressional Government,” p. 94.]

[35:  “The American Commonwealth,” I., 210 et seq.]

[36:  Ibid., pp. 304, 305]

[37:  ibid., Chap. 95, vol.  III.]

[38:  “Commentaries,” sec. 869.]

[39:  See Story’s “Commentaries,” sec. 869.]