From Parlimentary Debates under the heading 'Debate on Colonel Jervois Report' which commenced on March 13, 1865 and covered about a hundred pages of British.Hansard):.In discussing this threat in the British Parliament, London England, many opinions were voiced; but of concern were comments to the tone of: Mr. Lowe."... Better they.(referring to Upper and Lower Canada {Ontario and Quebec}).should know the truth at once, know that they and not we are to fight the Americans .....".Ibid., p. 1582

Mr. Bright."... we are not going to defend Canada as we would Scotland, as being an integral part of the British Empire, but with the admission to Canada that her defences must depend mainly upon herself ... and then perhaps shall persuade ourselves that Canada is best defended by abandoning Canada altogether and that the best is to leave her inhabitants to the mild and paternal rule of the United States .....".Ibid., p. 1611

Sec. 1..(of 3)
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that the President of the United States.(Andrew Johnson at this time).is hereby authorized and directed whenever notice shall be deposited in the Department of State that the Governments of Great Britain and the Provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island  Newfoundland, Canada, British Columbia, and Vancouver's Island, have accepted the proposition hereinafter made by the United States, to publish by proclamation that, from the date thereof, the States of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Canada East and Canada West, and the Territories of Selkirk, Saskatchewan and Columbia, with limits and rights as by this Act defined, are constituted and admitted as States and Territories of the United States of America.

Sec.2..(of 3)
Be it further enacted.... That the following articles are hereby proposed and from the date of the proclamation of the
President'of the United States shall take effect, as irrevocable conditions of the admission of the States of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Canada East and Canada West and the future States of Selkirk, Saskatchewan and Columbia, to wit:

Article 1.
All public lands not sold or granted; canals, public harbours, lighthouses and piers; river and lake improvements; railways, mortgages and other debts due by railway companies to the Provinces' custom houses and post offices shall vest in the United States; but all other public works and property shall belong to the State Governments respectively, hereby constituted, together with all sums due from purchasers or lessees of lands, mines, or minerals at the time of the union.

Article 11.
In consideration of public lands, works, and property vested as aforesaid in the United States, the United States will assume and discharge the funded debt and contingent liabilities of the late Provinces at rates of interest not exceeding five per centum to the amount of $85,800,000 apportioned as follows: To Canada West $36,500,000; to Canada East $29,000,000; to_ Nova Scotia $8,000,000; to New Brunswick $7,000,000; to Newfoundland, $3,300,000; and to Prince Edward Island, $2,000,000; and in further consideration of the transfer by said Provinces to the United States of the power to levy import and export duties, the United States will make an annual grant of $1,646,000 in aid of local expenditures, to be apportioned as follows: To Canada West $700,000; to Canada East $550,000; to Nova Scotia $165,000; to Newfoundland $65,000; to Prince Edward Island $40,000.

Article III.
For all purposes of State organization and representation in the Congress of the United States, Newfoundland shall be a part of Canada East, and Prince Edward Island shall be a part of Nova Scotia, except that each shall always be a separate representative district and entitled to elect at least one member of the House of Representatives, and except also that the municipal authorities of Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island shall receive the indemnities agreed to be paid by the United States in Article II.

Article IV.
Territorial divisions are established as follows: (1) New Brunswick, with its present limits; (2) Nova Scotia, with the addition of Prince Edward Island; (3) Canada East, with the addition of Newfoundland and all territory east of longitude 80 degree and south of Hudson Straits; (4) Canada West, with the addition of territory south of Hudson's Bay, and between longitude 80 and 90 deg.; (5) Selkirk Territory, bounded east by longitude 90 deg., south by the late boundary of the United States, west by longitude 105 deg., and north by the Arctic Circle; (6) Saskatchewan Territory, bounded east by longitude 105 deg., south by latitude 49 degrees, west by the Rocky Mountains and north by latitude 70 degree; (7) Columbia Territory, including Vancouver Island and Rockv Mountains, south by latitude 40 deg., and west by the Pacific Ocean and Russian America But Congress reserves the right of changing the limits and subdividing the areas of the western territories at discretion.

Article V.
Until the next decennial revision, representation in the House of Representatives shall be as follows: Canada West 12 members; Canada East, including Newfoundland, 11 members; New Brunswick, 2 members; Nova Scotia, including Prince Edward Island, 4 members.

Article VI.
The Congress of the United States shall enact, in favour of the oroDOsed Territories of Selkirk, Saskatchewan and Columbia, all the provisions of the Act organizing the Territory of Montana, so far as they can be made applicable.

Article VII.
The United States, by the construction of new canals, (by) the enlargement of existing canals, and by the improvement of shoals will so aid the navigation of the St. Lawrence River and the Great Lakes that vessels of fifteen hundred tons burden shall pass from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to Lakes Superior and Michigan; provided that the expenditure under this Article shall not exceed $50,000,000.

Article VIII.
The United States will appropriate and pay to "The European and North American Railway Company of Maine the sum o
$2000000 upon the construction of a continuous line of railroad from Bangor, in Maine, to St. John, in New Brunswick; provided The European and North American Railway Company of Maine" shall release the Government of the United States from all claims held by its assignees of the States of Maine and Massachusetts.

Article IX.
To aid the construction of a railway from Truro, in Nova Scotia to Riviere du Loup, in Canada East, and a railway from the city of Ottawa Pembina and Fort Garry, on the Red River of the North, and the Valley of North Saskatchewan River, to some point on the Pacific Ocean north of latitude 49 deg., the United States will grant lands along the lines of said roads to the amount of twenty sections, or 12,800 acres, per mile to be selected and sold in the manner prescribed in the Act to aid the construction of the Northern Pacific Railroad, approved July 2, 1862, and Acts amendatory thereof; and, in addition to said grants of land, the United States will further guarantee dividends of five per centum upon the stock of the company or companies which may be authorized by Congress to undertake the construction of said railways; provided that such guarantee of stock shall not exceed the sum of $30,000 per mile, and Congress shall regulate the securities for advances on account thereof.

Article X.
The public lands in the late Provinces, as far as practicable, shall be surveyed according to the rectangular system of the General Land Office of the United States; and in the territories west of longitude 90 degrees, or western boundary of Canada West, Sections sixteen and thirty six shall be granted for the encouragement of schools, and after the organization of the territories into the States, 5 per centum of the net proceeds of sales of public lands shall be paid into their treasuries as a fund for the improvement of roads and rivers.

Article XI.
The United States will pay $10,000,000 to the Hudson Bay Company in full discharge of all claims to territory or jurisdiction in North America, whether founded on the charter of the company or any treaty, law or usage.

Article XII.
It shall be developed upon the Legislatures of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Canada East and Canada West, to conjoin the tenure of office and the local institutions of said States to the Constitution, and laws of the United States, subject to revision by Congress.

Sec.3..(of 3)
Be it further enacted. ... If Prince Edward Island or Newfoundland, or either of those Provinces, shall decline union with the United States, and the remaining Provinces, with the consent of Great Britain, shall accept the proposition of the United States, the foregoing stipulations in favor of Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland, or either of them, will be omitted: but in all other respects the United States will give full effect to the plan of union. If Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick shall decline the propositon, but Canada, British Columbia and Vancouver Island shall, with the consent of Great Britain, accept the same, the construction of a railway from Truro to Riviere du Loup, with all stipulations relating to the Maritime Provinces, will form no part of the proposed plan of union, but the same will be consummated in all other respects. If Canada shall decline the proposition, then the stipulations in regard to the St. Lawrence canals and a railway from Ottawa to Sault Ste. Marie, with the Canadian clause of debt and revenue indemnity, will be relinquished. If the plan of union shall only be accepted in regard to the Northwestern territory and the Pacific Provinces, the United States will aid the construction on the terms named, of a railway from the western extremity of Lake Superior in the State of Minnesota, by way of Pembina, Fort Carry and the Valley of Saskatchewan, to the Pacific Coast, north of latitude 49 deg., besides securing all the rights and privileges of an American territory to the proposed Territories of Selkirk, Saskatchewan and Columbia.