660 



PUBLIC DOCUMENTS. 



mons may be from time to time increased by the 

 Parliament of Canada, provided the proportionate 

 representation of the Provinces prescribed by tbis 

 act is not thereby disturbed. 



MONET VOTES ROYAL ASSENT. 



53. Bills for appropriating any part of the public 

 revenue, or for imposing any tax or impost, shall 

 originate in the house of commons. 



54. It shall not be lawful for the house of com- 

 mons to adopt or pass any vote, resolution, address, 

 or bill for the appropriation of any part of the public 

 revenue, or of any tax or impost, to anv purpose that 

 Las not first been recommended to that house by 

 message of the governor-genernl in the session in 

 which such vote, resolution, address, or bill is pro- 

 posed. 



55. Where a bill passed by the houses of Parlia- 

 ment, is presented to the governor-general for the 

 Queen's assent, he shall declare according to his 

 discretion, but subject to the provisions of this act 

 and her majesty's instructions, either that he assents 

 thereto in the Queen's name, or that he withholds 

 the Queen's assent, or that he reserves the bill for 

 the signification of tbe Queen's pleasure. 



56. Where the governor-general assents to a bill 

 in the Queen's name, he shall by the first convenient 

 opportunity send an authentic copy of the act to one 

 of her majesty's principal secretaries of state, and if 

 the Queen in council within two years after receipt 

 thereof by the secretary of state thinks fit to disallow 

 the act, such disallowance (with a certificate of the 

 secretary of state, of the day on which the act was 

 received by him), being signified by the governor- 

 general, by speech or message to each of the houses 

 of the Parliament, or by proclamation, shall annul 

 the act from and after the day of such signification. 



57. A bill reserved for the signification of the 

 Queen's pleasure shall not have any force unless and 

 until within two years from the day on which it was 

 presented to the governor-general for the Queen's 

 assent, the governor-general signifies, by speech or 

 message to each of the houses of Parliament, or by 

 proclamation, that it has received the assent of the 

 Queen in council. 



An entry of every such speech, message, or proc- 

 lamation shall be made in the journal of each house, 

 and a duplicate thereof duly attested shall be deliv- 

 ered to the proper officer, to be kept among the rec- 

 ords of Canada. 



V. PJBOVINOIAL CONSTITUTIONS. 

 Executive Power. 



58. For each Province there shall be an officer, 

 styled the Lieutenant-Govern or, appointed by the 

 governor-general in council, by instrument under the 

 great seal of Canada. 



59. A lieutenant-governor shall hold office during 

 the pleasure of the governor-general ; but any lieuten- 

 ant-governor appointed after the commencement 

 of the first session of the Parliament of Canada, shall 

 not be removable within five years from his appoint- 

 ment, except for cause assigned, which shall be com- 

 municated to him in writing, within one month after 

 the order for his removal is made, and shall be com- 

 municated by message to the senate and to the house 

 of commons within one week thereafter if Parliament 

 is then sitting, and if not then within one week after 

 the commencement of the next session of the Parlia- 

 ment. 



60. The salaries of the lieutenant-governors shall 

 be fixed and provided by the Parliament of Canada. 



61. Every lieutenant-governor shall, before as- 

 suming the duties of his office, make and subscribe 

 before the governor-general or some person author- 

 ized by him oaths of allegiance and office similar to 

 those taken by the governor-general. 



62. The provisions of this act referring to the lieu- 

 tenant-governor, extend and apply to the lieutenant- 

 governor for the time being of each Province or other 



the chief executive officer or administrator for tho 

 time being carrying on the government of the Prov- 

 ince, by whatever title he is designated. 



63. The executive councils of Ontario and Quebec 

 shall be composed of such persons as the lieutenant- 

 governor from time to time thinks fit, and in the first 

 instance of the following officers: namely, the attor- 

 ney-general, the secretary and register of the Prov- 

 ince, the treasurer of the province, the commissioner 

 of crown lands, and the. commissioner of agriculture 

 and public works, within Quebec, the speaker of the 

 legislative council, and the solicitor-general. 



64. The constitution of the executive authority in 

 each of the Provinces of Nova Scotia and New Bruns- 

 wick shall, subject to the provisions of this act, con- 

 tinue as it exists at the union until altered under the 

 authority of this act. 



65. All powers, authorities, and functions, which 

 under any act of the Parliament of Great Britain, or 

 of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great 

 Britain and Ireland, or of the Legislature of Upper 

 Canada, Lower Canada, or Canada, were or are be- 

 fore or at the union vested in or exercisable by the 

 respective governors or lieutenant-governors of those 

 Provinces, with the advice, or with the advice and 

 consent of the respective executive councils thereof, 

 or in conjunction with those councils, or with any 

 number of the members thereof, or by those gov- 

 ernors or lieutenant-governors individually, shall, as 

 far as the same are capable of being exercised after 

 the union in relation to the government of Ontario 

 and Quebec respectively, be vested in and shall or 

 may be exercised by the lieutenant-governor of On- 

 tario and Quebec respectively, with the advice, or 

 with the advice and consent of or in conjunction with 

 the respective executive council, or any members 

 thereof, or by the lieutenant-governor of individually, 

 as the case requires, subject nevertheless (except 

 with respect to such as exists under acts of the Par- 

 liament of Great Britain, or of the Parliament of the 

 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) to be 

 abolished or altered by the respective legislatures of 

 Ontario and Quebec. 



66. The provisions of this act referring to the 

 lieutenant-governor in council shall be construed as 

 referring to the lieutenant-governor of the Province 

 acting by and with the advice of the executive coun- 

 cil thereof. 



67. The governor-general in council may from time 

 to time appoint an administrator to execute the office 

 and functions of lieutenant-governor during his ab- 

 sence, illness, or other inability. 



68. Unless and until the executive government of 

 any Province otherwise directs with respect to that 

 Province, the seats of government of the Provinces 

 shall be as follows : namelv, of Ontario, the city of 

 Toronto ; of Quebec, the city of Quebec ; of Nova 

 Scotia, the city of Halifax; and of New Brunswick, 

 the city of Fredericton. 



LEGISLATIVE POWERS. 



69. 1. Ontario. There shall be a legislature for 

 Ontario, consisting of the lieutenant-governor and 

 of one house, styled the Legislative Assembly of 

 Ontario. 



70. The legislative assembly of Ontario shall be 

 composed of eighty-two members, to be elected to 

 represent the eighty-two electoral districts in Onta- 

 rio, set forth in the first schedule of this act. 



71. 2. Quebec. There shall be a legislature for 

 Quebec consisting of the lieutenant-governor and of 

 two houses, styled the Legislative Council of Quebec 

 and the Legislative Assembly of Quebec. 



72. The legislative council of Quebec shall be com- 

 posed of twenty-four members, to be appointed by 

 the lieutenant-governor under the Queen's name, by 

 instrument under the great seal of Quebec, one being 

 appointed to represent each of the twenty-four elec- 

 toral divisions of Lower Canada in this act referred 

 to, and each holding office for the term of his life, 



