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[image: College coat of arms with ribbon: SPIENTIA ET DOCTRINA STABILITIAS]

Legislature, on the tenth of February last, made special
reference to the Universities of the Province, and gave expression
to the intention of the Government to submit a
measure for extending their usefulness.

That your petitioners are deeply interested in the
maintenance and prosperity of Queen's University, Kingston

That Queen's University under the Royal Charter
granted by Queen Victoria, in the early years of her reign,
provides for, and embraces a complete course of literary and
scientific education.

That the founders of Queen's University, at a period
in the history of Canada when there was a perfectly free
choice of localities selected Kingston on account of its
central and salubrious situation: That two years ago,
on all the constituents of Queen's University being specially
and individually consulted, they unanimously determined
that Queen's should remain permanently at Kingston,
carrying on University work: That the Charter of
Queen's is older than any other existing provincial University
Charter. That, for nearly half a century, this
institution at Kingston has taught general literature and
science to all on equal terms: That in an early address
of its founders issued to the public in 1839, the doors of
Queen's were opened to all the youth of the country without
distinction of creed, or class or race; that
from the first day of the establishment of Queen's

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1886-87

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