The item is an extensive, multi-part manuscript of a bibliography of Canadian Federation Royal Commissions and Commissions of Inquiry. Pages are hand-written, typed or have clipped excerpts from published catalogues stapled to legal sized sheets. There are extensive hand-written annotations throughout.
Items are typed and translated transcriptions of "Decree including a regulation in favor of the inhabitants of New France," (5 Mar. 1648) and "Decree of March 27th, 1647, including regulations concerning the inhabitants of the country called Canada."