unless the legislature of Quebec otherwise provides under the provisions of this act.

73. The qualifications of a legislative councillor of Quebec shall be the same as those of the senators for Quebec.

74. The place of a legislative councillor of Quebec shall become vacant in the cases, mutatis mutandis, in which the place of senator becomes vacant.

75. When a vacancy happens in the legislative council of Quebec by resignation, death, or otherwise, the lieutenant-governor, in the Queen's name, by an instrument under the great seal of Quebec, shall appoint a fit and qualified person to fill the vacancy.

76. If any question arises respecting the qualification of a legislative councillor of Quebec, or a vacancy in the legislative council of Quebec, the same shall be heard and determined by the legislative council.

77. The lieutenant-governor may, from time to time, by instrument under the great seal of Quebec, appoint a member of the legislative council of Quebec to be speaker thereof, and may remove him and appoint another in his stead.

78. Until the legislature of Quebec otherwise provides, the presence of at least ten members of the legislative council, including the speaker, shall be necessary to constitute a meeting for the exercise of its powers.

79. Questions arising in the legislative council of Quebec shall be decided by a majority of voices, and the speaker shall in all cases have a vote, and when the voices are equal the decision shall be deemed to be in the negative.

80. The legislative assembly of Quebec shall be composed of sixty-five members to be elected to represent the sixty-five electoral divisions or districts of Lower Canada in this act referred to, subject to alteration thereof by the legislature of Quebec: provided that it shall not be lawful to present to the lieutenant-governor of Quebec for assent any bill for altering the limits of any of the electoral divisions or districts mentioned in the second schedule to this act, unless the second and third readings of such bill have been passed in the legislative assembly with the concurrence of the majority of the members representing all those electoral divisions or districts, and the assent shall not be given to such bill unless an address has been presented by the legislative assembly to the lieutenant-governor stating that it has been so passed.

81. 3. Ontario and Quebec.-The legislatures of Ontario and Quebec respectively shall be called together not later than six months after the union.

82. The lieutenant-governor of Ontario and Quebec shall, from time to time, in the Queen's name, by instrument under the great seal of the Province, summon and call together the legislative assembly of the Province.

83. Until the legislature of Ontario or of Quebec otherwise provides, a person accepting or holding in Ontario or Quebec any office, commission, or employment, permanent or temporary, at the nomination of the lieutenant-governor, to which an annual salary or any fee, allowance, emolument, or profit of any kind or amount whatever from the Province is attached, shall not be eligible as a member of the legislative assembly of the respective Province, nor shall he sit or vote as such; but nothing in this section shall make ineligible any person being a member of the executive council of the respective Province, or holding any of the following offices: that is to say, the offices of attorney-general, secretary and register of the Province, treasurer of the Province, commissioner of crown lands, and commissioner of agriculture and public works, and in Quebec, solicitor-general, or shall disqualify him to sit or vote in the house for which he is elected, provided he is elected while holding such office.

84. Until the legislatures of Ontario and Quebec respectively otherwise provide, all laws which at the union are in force in those Provinces respectively,

relative to the following matters, or any of them, namely, the qualifications and disqualifications of persons to be elected, or to sit or vote as members of the assembly of Canada, the qualifications or disqualifications of voters, the oaths to be taken by voters, the returning officers, their powers and duties, the proceedings at elections, the periods during which such elections may be continued, and the trial of controverted elections, and the proceedings incident thereto, the vacating of the seats of members, and the issuing and execution of new writs in case of seats vacated otherwise than by dissolution, shall respectively apply to elections of members to serve in the respective legislative assemblies of Ontario and Quebec.

Provided, That until the legislature of Ontario otherwise provides, at any election for a member of the legislative assembly of Ontario for the district of Algoma in addition to persons qualified by the law of the Province of Canada to vote, every British subject, aged twenty-one years or upward, being a householder, shall have a vote.

85. Every legislative assembly of Ontario and every legislative assembly of Quebec shall continue for four years from the day of the return of the writs for choosing the same (subject nevertheless to either the legislative assembly of Ontario or the legislative assembly of Quebec being sooner dissolved by the lieutenant-governor of the province), and no longer.

86. There shall be a session of the legislature of Ontario and that of Quebec once at least in every year, so that twelve months shall not intervene between the last sitting of the legislature in each Province in one session and its first sitting in the next session.

87. The following provisions of this act respecting the house of commons of Canada shall extend and apply to the legislative assemblies of Ontario and Quebec, that is to say, the provisions relating to the election of a speaker originally and on vacancies, the duties of the speaker, the absence of the speaker, the quorum, and the mode of voting, as if those provisions were here reenacted and made applicable in terms to each such legislative assembly.

88. 4. Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.-The constitution of the legislature of each of the Provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick shall, subject to the provisions of this act, continue as it exists at the union, until altered under the authority of this act, and the house of assembly of New Brunswick existing at the passing of this act shall, unless sooner dissolved, continue for the period for which it was elected.

89. 5. Ontario, Quebec, and Nova Scotia.-Each of the lieutenant-governors of Ontario, Quebec, and Nova Scotia shall cause writs to be issued for the first election of members of the legislative assembly thereof in such form and by such person as he thinks fit, and at such time and addressed to such returning officer as the governor-general directs, and so that the first election of member of assembly for any electo. ral district or any subdivision thereof shall be held at the same time and at the same places as the election for a member to serve in the house of commons of Canada for that electoral district.

90. 6. The Four Provinces.-The following provi sions of this act respecting the Parliament of Canada, namely, the provisions relating to appropriation and tax bills, the recommendation of money votes, the assent to bills, the disallowance of acts, and the sig. nification of pleasure on bills reserved, shall extend and apply to the legislatures of the several Provinces as if those provisions were reenacted and made appli. cable in terms to the respective Provinces and the legislatures thereof, with the substitution of the lieutenant-governor of the Province for the governor. general, of the governor-general for the Queen, and for a secretary of state, of one year, for two years, and of the Province for Canada.

VI.-DISTRIBUTION OF LEGISLATIVE POWERS.

POWERS OF THE PARLIAMENT.

91. It shall be lawful for the Queen, by and with the advice and consent of the senate and house of commons, to make laws for the peace, order, and good government of Canada, in relation to all matters not coming within the classes of subjects by this act assigned exclusively to the legislatures of the Provinces; and for greater certainty, but not so as to restrict the generality of the foregoing terms of this section, it is hereby declared that (notwithstanding anything in this act) the exclusive legislative authority of the Parliament of Canada extends to all matters coming within the classes of subjects next hereinafter enumerated, that is to say:

1. The public debt and property.

2. The regulation of trade and commerce.

3. The raising of money by any mode or system of taxation.

4. The borrowing of money on the public credit. 5. Postal service.

6. The census and statistics.

7. Militia, military, and naval services and defence.

8. The fixing of and providing for the salaries and allowances of civil and other officers of the government of Canada.

9. Beacons, buoys, light-houses, and Sable Island. 10. Navigation and shipping.

11. Quarantine and the establishment and main

tenance of marine hospitals.

12. Sea-coast and inland fisheries.

13. Ferries between a Province and any British or foreign country, or between two Provinces.

14. Currency and coinage.

15. Banking-incorporation of banks and the issue of paper money.

16. Savings banks.

17. Weights and measures.

18. Bills of exchange and promissory notes.

19. Interest.

20. Legal tender.

21. Bankruptcy and insolvency.

22. Patents and invention and discovery.

23. Copyrights.

24. Indians and lands reserved for the Indians. 25. Naturalization and aliens.

26. Marriage and divorce.

27. The criminal law, except the constitution of courts of criminal jurisdiction, but including the procedure in criminal matters.

28. The establishment, maintenance, and management of penitentiaries.

29. Such classes of subjects as are expressly excepted in the enumeration of the classes of subjects by this act assigned exclusively to legislatures of the Provinces.

And any matter coming within any of the classes of subjects enumerated in this section shall not be deemed to come within the class of matters of a local or private nature comprised in the enumeration of the classes of subjects by this act assigned exclusively to the legislatures of the Provinces.

EXCLUSIVE POWERS OF PROVINCIAL LEGISLATURES.

92. In each Province the legislature may exclusively make laws in relation to matters coming within the classes of subjects next hereinafter enumerated, that is to say:

(1.) The amendment from time to time, notwithstanding anything in this act, of the Constitution of the Province, except as regards the office of lieutenant-governor.

(2.) Direct taxation within the Province in order to the raising of a revenue for provincial purposes.

(3.) The borrowing of money on the sole credit of the Province.

(4.) The establishment and tenure of provincial offices, and the appointment and payment of provincial officers.

(5.) The management and sale of the public lands belonging to the Province, and of the timber and wood thereon.

(6.) The establishment, maintenance, and management of public and reformatory prisons in and for the Province.

(7.) The establishment, maintenance, and management of hospitals, asylums, charities, and eleemosynary institutions in and for the Province (other than marine hospitals).

(8.) Municipal institutions in the Province.

Shop, saloon, tavern, auctioneer, and other licenses in order to the raising of a revenue for provincial, local, or municipal purposes. (10.) Local works and undertakings other than such as are of the following classes: a. Lines of steam or other ships, railways, canals, telegraphs, and other works and undertakings connecting the Province with any or others of the Provinces, or extending beyond the limits of the Prov ince.

b. Lines of steamships between the Province and any British or foreign country.

c.

Such works as, although wholly situate within the Province, or before or after their execution declared by the Parliament of Canada to be for the general advantage of Canada or for the advantage of two or more of the Provinces.

(11.) The incorporation of companies with Provincial objects.

(12.) The solemnization of marriage in the Province.

(13.) Property and civil rights in the Province. (14.) The administration of justice in the Province, including the constitution, maintenance and organization of Provincial courts, both of civil and criminal jurisdiction, and including procedure in civil matters in those courts. (15.) The imposition of punishment by fine, penalty, or imprisonment for enforcing any law of the Province made in relation to any matter coming within any of the classes of subjects enumerated in this section.

(16.) Generally all matters of a merely local or private nature in the Province.

EDUCATION.

(93.) In and for each Province the legislature may make laws in relation to education, subject and according to the following provisions:

(1.) Nothing in any such law shall prejudicially affect any right or privilege with respect to denominational schools which any class of persons have by law in the Province at the union.

(2.) All the powers, privileges, and duties by law conferred and imposed in Upper Canada on the separate schools and school trustees of the Queen's Roman Catholic subjects shall be and the same are hereby extended to the dissentient schools of the Queen's Protestant and Roman Catholic subjects in Quebec. (3.) Where in any Province a system of separate or dissentient schools exists by law at the union, or is thereafter established by the legislature of the Province, an appeal shall lie to the governor-general in council from any act or decision of any Provincial authority affecting any right or privilege of the Protestant or Roman Catholic minority of the Queen's subjects in relation to education. (4.) In case any such Provincial law as from time to time seems to the governor-general in council requisite for the due execution of the provisions of this section is not made, or in

any case any decision of the governor-general in council on any appeal under this section is not duly executed by the proper Provincial authority in that behalf, then and in every such case, and as far only as the circumstances of each case require, the Parliament of Canada may make remedial laws for the due execution of the provisions of this section and of any decision of the governorgeneral in council under this section.

UNIFORMITY OF LAWS IN ONTARIO, NOVA SCOTIA, AND NEW BRUNSWICK.

94. Notwithstanding any thing in this act, the Parliament of Canada may make provision for the uniformity of all or any of the laws relative to property and civil rights in Ontario, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, and of the procedure of all or any of the courts in those three Provinces, and from and after the passing of any act in that behalf the power of the Parliament of Canada to make laws in relation to any matter comprised in any such act shall, notwithstanding any thing in this act, be unrestricted; but any act of the Parliament of Canada making provision for such uniformity shall not have effect in any Province unless and until it is adopted and enacted as law by the legislature thereof.

AGRICULTURE AND IMMIGRATION.

95. In each Province the legislature may make laws in relation to agriculture in the Province, and to immigration into the Province; and it is hereby declared that the Parliament of Canada may, from time to time, make laws in relation to agriculture in all or any of the Provinces, and to immigration into all or any of the Provinces; and any law of the legislature of a Province relative to agriculture or to immigration shall have effect in and for the Province as long and as far only as it is not repugnant to any act of Parliament of Canada.

VII.-JUDICATURE.

96. The governor-general shall appoint the judges of the Superior, District, and County Courts in each Province, except those of the Courts of Probate in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.

97. Until the laws relative to property and civil rights in Ontario, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, and the procedure of the courts in those Provinces are made uniform, the judges of the courts of those Provinces appointed by the governor-general shall be selected from the respective bars of those Provinces. 98. The judges of the courts of Quebec shall be selected from the bar of that Province.

99. The judges of the Superior Courts shall hold office during good behavior; but shall be removable by the governor-general on address of the senate and house of commons.

100. The salaries, allowances, and pensions of the judges of the Superior, District, and County Courts (except the Courts of Probate in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick), and of the Admiralty Courts in cases where the judges thereof are for the time being paid by salary, shall be fixed and provided by the Parliament of Canada.

101. The Parliament of Canada may, notwithstanding any thing in this act, from time to time provide for the constitution, maintenance, and organization of a general court of appeal for Canada, and for the establishment of any additional courts for the better administration of the laws of Canada.

VIIL-REVENUES-DEBTS-ASSETS-TAXATION. 102. All duties and revenues over which the respective legislatures of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick before and at the union had, and have power of appropriation, except such portions thereof as are by this act reserved to the respective legislatures of the Provinces, or are raised by them in accordance with the special powers conferred upon

them by this act, shall form one consolidated revenue fund, to be appropriated for the public service of Canada, in the manner, and subject to the charges in this act provided.

103. The consolidated revenue fund of Canada shall be permanently charged with the costs, charges and expenses incident to the collection, management, and receipt thereof, and the same shall form the first charge thereon, subject to be reviewed and audited in such manner as shall be ordered by the governorgeneral in council until the Parliament otherwise provides.

104. The annual interest of the public debts of the several Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick at the union shall form the second charge on the consolidated revenue fund of Canada.

105. Unless altered by the Parliament of Canada, the salary of the governor-general shall be ten thousand pounds sterling money of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, payable out of the consolidated revenue fund of Canada, and the same shall form the third charge thereon.

106. Subject to the several payments by this act charged on the consolidated revenue fund of Canada, the same shall be appropriated by the Parliament of Canada for the public service.

107. All stocks, cash, bankers' balances and securities for money belonging to each Province at the time of the union, except as in this act mentioned, shall be the property of Canada, and shall be taken in reduction of the amount of the respective debts of the Provinces at the union.

108. The public works and property of each Province, enumerated in the third schedule to this act, shall be the property of Canada.

109. All lands, mines, minerals, and royalties belonging to the several Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick at the union, and ali sums then due or payable for such lands, mines, minerals, or royalties, shall belong to the several Provinces of Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, in which the same are situate or arise, subject to any trusts existing in respect thereof, and to any interest other than that of the Province in the

same.

110. All assets connected with such portions of the public debt of each Province as are assumed by that Province, shall belong to that Province.

111. Canada shall be liable for the debts and liabilities of each Province existing at the Union.

112. Ontario and Quebec, conjointly, shall be liable to Canada for the amount (if any) by which the debt of the Province of Canada exceeds, at the Union, $62,500,000, and shall be charged with interest at the rate of five per centum per annum thereon.

113. The assets enumerated in the fourth schedule to this act, belonging at the union to the Province of Canada, shall be the property of Ontario and Quebec conjointly.

114. Nova Scotia shall be liable to Canada for the amount (if any) by which its public debt exceeds at the union $8,000,000, and it shall be charged with interest at the rate of five per centum per annum thereon.

115. New Brunswick shall be liable to Canada for the amount (if any) by which its public debt exceeds at the union $7,000,000, and shall be charged with interest at the rate of five per centum per annum thereon.

116. In case the public debts of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick do not at the union amount to $8,000,000 and $7,000,000 respectively, they shall respectively receive by half-yearly payments in advance from the government of Canada, interest at five per centum per annum on the difference between the actual amounts of their respective debts and such stipulated amounts.

117. The several Provinces shall retain all their respective public property not otherwise disposed of

and an annual grant in aid of each Province shall be made, equal to eighty cents per head of the population, as ascertained by the census of one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, and in the case of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, by each subsequent decennial census until the population of each of those two Provinces amounts to four hundred thousand souls, at which rate such grant shall hereafter remain. Such grants shall be in full settlement of all future demands on Canada, and shall be paid halfyearly in advance to each Province; but the Government of Canada shall deduct from such grants, as against any Province, all sums chargeable as interest on the public debt of that Province in excess of the several amounts stipulated in this act. 119. New Brunswick shall receive by half-yearly payments, in advance, from Canada for the period of ten years from the union, an additional allowance of sixty-three thousand dollars per annum. But so long as the public debt of that Province remains under seven millions of dollars, a deduction equal to the interest at five per centum per annum on such deficiency shall be made from the said sum of sixty

three thousand dollars.

120. All payments to be made under this act, or in discharge of liabilities created under any act of the Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick respectively, and assumed by Canada, shall, until the Parliament of Canada otherwise directs, be made in such form and manner as may from time to time be ordered by the governor-general in council.

121. All articles of the growth, produce or manufacture of any one of the Provinces shall, from and after the union, be admitted free into each of the other Provinces.

122. The customs and excise laws of each Province shall, subject to the provisions of this act, continue in force until altered by the Parliament of

Canada.

124. Nothing in this act shall affect the right of New Brunswick to levy the lumber dues provided in chapter fifteen of title three of the revised statutes of New Brunswick, or in any act amending that act before or after the union, and not increasing the amount of such dues; but the lumber of any of the Provinces, other than New Brunswick, shall not be subject to such dues.

125. No lands or property belonging to Canada or any Province thereof, shall be liable to taxation.

126. Such portions of the dues and revenues over which the respective legislatures of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick had before the union power of appropriation as are by this act reserved to the respective governments or legislatures of the Provinces, and all duties and revenues raised by them in accordance with the special powers conferred upon them by this act, shall in each Province

form one consolidated revenue fund, to be appropriated for the public service of the Province.

IX.-MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.

GENERAL.

127. If any person, at the passing of this act a member of the council of Canada, Nova Scotia, or New Brunswick, to whom a place in the senate is offered, does not within thirty days thereafter, by writing under his hand, addressed to the governorgeneral of the Province of Canada, or to the lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia or New Brunswick (as the case may be), accept the same, he shall be deemed to have declined the same; and any person who, being, at the passing of this act, a member of the legislative council of Nova Scotia or New Brunswick, accepts a place in the senate shall thereby vacate his seat in such legislative council.

128. Every member of the senate or house of commons of Canada shall, before taking his seat therein, take and subscribe before the governorgeneral, or some person authorized by him, and every member of a legislative council or legislative assembly of any province, shall, before taking his seat therein, take and subscribe before the lieutenantgovernor of the Province, or some person authorized by him, the oath of allegiance contained in the fifth schedule to this act, and every member of the senate of Canada, and every member of the legislative council of Quebec, shall also, before taking his seat therein, take and subscribe before the governorgeneral, or some person authorized by him, the declaration of qualification contained in the same

schedule.

129. Except as otherwise provided by this act, all laws in force in Canada, Nova Scotia, or New Brunswick at the union, and all courts of civil and criminal jurisdiction, and all legal commissions, powers, and authorities, and all officers, judicial, administrative, and ministerial, existing therein at the union, shall continue in Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick respectively, as if the union had not been made, (except with respect to such as are enacted by or exist under acts of the Parliament of Great Britain or of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,) to be repealed, abolished, or altered by the Parliament of Canada, or by the legislature of the respective Provinces, according to the authority of the Parliament or of that legislature under this act.

130. Until the Parliament of Canada otherwise provides, all officers of the several provinces having duties to discharge in relation to matters other than those coming within the clauses of subjects by this act assigned exclusively to the legislatures of the Provinces shall be officers of Canada, and shall continue to discharge the duties of their respective offices under the same liabilities, responsibilities, and penalties as if the union had not been made.

131. Until the Parliament of Canada otherwise provides, the governor-general in council may from time to time appoint such officers as the governorgeneral in council deems necessary or proper for the effectual execution of this act.

132. The Parliament and Government of Canada shall have all powers necessary or proper for performing the obligations of Canada or of any Province thereof, as part of the British empire towards foreign countries, arising under treaties between the empire and such foreign countries.

133. Either the English or the French language may be used by any person in the debates of the houses of Parliament of Canada and of the houses of the legislature of Quebec, and both these languages shall be used in the respective records and journals of both houses; and either of those languages may be used by any person or in any pleading or process in or issuing from any court of Canada, established

under this act, and in or from all or any of the courts of Quebec.

The acts of Parliament of Canada and of the legislature of Quebec shall be printed and published in both those languages.

134. Until the legislature of Ontario or of Quebec otherwise provides, the lieutenant-governor of Ontario and Quebec may each appoint under the great seal of the Province the following officers, to hold office during pleasure, that is to say: the attorneygeneral, the secretary and registrar of the Province, the treasurer of the Province, the commissioner of crown-lands, and the commissioner of agriculture and public works, and in the case of Quebec the solicitor-general; and may, by order of the lieutenant-governor in council from time to time prescribe the duties of those officers and of the several departments over which they shall preside, or to which they shall belong, and of the officers and clerks thereof; and may also appoint other and additional officers to hold office during pleasure, and may from time to time prescribe the duties of these officers, and of the several departments over which they shall preside, or to which they shall belong, and of the officers and clerks thereof.

135. Until the legislature of Ontario or Quebec otherwise provides, all rights, powers, duties, functions, responsibilities, or authorities at the passing of this act vested in or imposed on the attorney-general, secretary and registrar of the Province of Canada, minister of finance, commissioner of crownlands, commissioner of public works, and minister of agriculture, and receiver general, by any law, statute, or ordinance of Upper Canada, Lower Canada or Canada, and not repugnant to this act, shall be vested in or imposed on any officer to be appointed by the lieutenant-governor for the discharge of the same or any of them; and the commissioners of agriculture and public works shall perform the duties and functions of the office of minister of agriculture at the passing of this act imposed by the law of the Pro vince of Canada, as well as those of the commissioner of public works.

136. Until altered by the lieutenant-governor in council, the great seals of Ontario and Quebec respectively shall be the same, or of the same design, as those used in the Provinces of Upper Canada and Lower Canada respectively before their union as the Province of Canada.

137. The words "and from thence to the end of the then next ensuing session of the legislature," or words to the same effect, used in any temporary act of the Province of Canada not expired before the union, shall be construed to extend and apply to the next session of the Parliament of Canada, if the subject matter of the act is within the powers of the same as defined by this act, or to the next sessions of the legislatures of Ontario and Quebec respectively, if the subject matter of the act is within the powers of the same as defined by this act.

138. From and after the union, the use of the words "Upper Canada" instead of "Ontario," or "Lower Canada" instead of “Quebec," in any deed, writ, process, pleading matter, document, matter or thing, shall not invalidate the same.

189. Any proclamation under the great seal of the Province of Canada issued before the union to take effect at a time which is subsequent to the union, whether relating to that Province or to Upper Canada, or to Lower Canada, and the several matters and things therein proclaimed, shall be, and continue of like force and effect as if the union had not been

made.

140. Any proclamation which is authorized by any act of the legislature of the Province of Canada to be issued under the great seal of the Province of Canada, whether relating to that Province, or to Upper Canada, or to Lower Canada, and which is not issued before the union, may be issued by the lieutenant-governor of Ontario or Quebec, as its sub

ject matter requires, under the great seal thereof, and from and after the issue of such proclamation the same and the several matters and things therein proclaimed shall be, and continue of the like force and effect in Ontario or Quebec, as if the union had not been made.

141. The penitentiary of the Province of Canada shall, until the Parliament of Canada otherwise provides, be and continue the penitentiary of Ontario and of Quebec.

142. The division and adjustment of the debts, credits, liabilities, properties and assets of Upper Canada and Lower Canada, shall be referred to the arbitrament of three arbitrators, one chosen by the government of Ontario, one by the gov ernment of Quebec, and one by the government of Canada; and the selection of the arbitrators shall not be made until the Parliament of Canada and the legislatures of Ontario and Quebec have met, and the arbitrator chosen by the government of Canada shall not be a resident either in Ontario or Quebec.

143. The governor-general in council may from time to time order that such and so many of the records, books and documents of the Province of Canada as he thinks fit shall be appropriated and delivered either to Ontario or to Quebec, and the same shall thenceforth be the property of that Province; and any copy thereof, or extract therefrom, duly certified by the officer having charge of the original thereof, shall be admitted as evidence.

144. The lieutenant-governor of Quebec may from time to time, by proclamation under the great seal of the Province, to take effect from a day to be appointed therein, constitute townships in those parts of the Province of Quebec in which townships are not then already constituted, and fix the metes and bounds thereof.

X. INTERCOLONIAL RAILWAY.

145. Inasmuch as the Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick have joined in a declararation that the construction of the intercolonial railway is essential to the consolidation of the union of British North America, and to the assent thereto of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, and have consequently agreed that provision should be made for its immediate construction by the government of Canada; therefore, in order to give effect to that agreement, it shall be the duty of the government and Parliament of Canada to provide for the commencement, within six months after the union, of a railway connecting the river St. Lawrence with the city of Halifax in Nova Scotia, and for the construction thereof without intermission, and the completion thereof with all practicable speed.

XI. ADMISSION OF OTHER COLONIES. 146. It shall be lawful for the Queen, by and with the advice of her majesty's most honorable_privy council, on addresses from the houses of the Parliament of Canada, and from the houses of the respective legislatures of the Colonies or Provinces of Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, and British Columbia, to admit those Colonies or Provinces, or any of them, into the union, and on address from the houses of the Parliament of Canada, to admit Rupert's Land and the Northwestern Territory, or either of them into the union, on such terms and conditions in each case as are in the addresses expressed and as the Queen thinks fit to approve, subject to the provisions of this act; and the provisions of any order in council in that behalf shall have effect as if they had been enacted by the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,

147. In case of the admission of Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island, or either of them, each shall be entitled to a representation in the senate of