PUBLIC DOCUMENTS. 



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: uro of Quebec otherwise provides 



i tlii* act. 



.li.nis uf ii I 'imcillor of 



Quebec shall bo tho suino M those of thu senators for 



- 



'.ice of a legislative councillor of Quebec 

 vac.mt in tho cases, mutafu mutandis, 

 place of senator becomes vacant. 

 a vacancy happens in the legislative 

 .' icbeo by resignation, death, or otherwise, 

 ; in the Queen's name, by an 

 ili,- great seal of Quebec, shall ap- 

 i fit and qualified person to fill the vacancy. 



i in arises respecting the qualffica- 

 councillor of Quebec, or a vacancy 

 in tho legislative council of Quebec, the same shall bo 

 heard and d \>y the legislative council. 



lant-gorernor may, from time to 



by/ instrument uiukr the great seal of Quebec, 



.'!' t!i.- legislative council of Quebec 



r (hereof, and may remove him and ap- 



.iiinthiT in his stead. 



I'ntil the legislature of Quebec otherwise pro- 

 the presence of at least ten members of the 

 tive council, including tin- speaker, shall be 

 ;ry to constitute a meeting for the exercise of 

 its powers. 



"ucstion.s arising in the legislative council of 



1 1 be decided by a majority of voices, and 



:iker shall in all cases have a vote, and when 



i os uro equal the decision shall be deemed to 



be in the negative. 



80. Th !'_': -lativo assembly of Quebec shall bo 

 '-ed of sixty-five members to be elected to repre- 

 sent the sixty-five electoral divisions or districts of 

 Lower Canada in this act referred to, subject to al- 

 teration thereof by the legislature of Quebec : pro- 



that it shall not be lawful to present to the 

 ^nit-governor of Quebec for assent any bill for 

 _ r the limits of any of the electoral divisions or 

 districts mentioned in 'the sesond 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 rep- 

 ng 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 as- 

 sembly to the lieutenant-governor stating that it has 

 been so passed. 



81. 8. Ontario and Quebec. The legislatures of 

 Ontario and Quebec respectively shall be called to- 

 gether 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 in- 

 strument under the great seal of the Province, sum- 

 mon and call together the legislative assembly of the 

 Province. 



83. Until the legislature of Ontario or of Quebec 

 otherwise provides, a per-on accepting or holding in 

 Ontario or Quebec any office, commission, or employ- 

 ment, permanent or'temporary, at the Domination 

 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 at- 

 tached, shall not be eligible as a member of the legis- 

 lative assembly of the respective Province, nor shall 

 he sit or vote as such ; but nothing in this section 

 hall make ineligible any person bung a member of 

 tho executive council or the respective Province, or 

 holding any of the following offices : that is to say, 

 the otlices of attorney-sen T :m<l re^Nter 

 of the Province, treasurer of the Province, commis- 

 sioner of crown lands, and commissioner of agricul- 

 ture and public works, and in Quebec, solicitor-gen- 

 eral, or shall disqualify him <o sit or vote in the hous, 

 fr which he is elected, provided he is elected while 

 holding such office. 



84. Until the legislature* of Ontario and Quebec 



wise provide, all laws which at the 



union are in force in those Provinces respectively, 



relative to tho following matter*, or any of them, 

 namely, the qualifications and disqualification* of 

 persons to be elected, or to sit or rote a member* 

 of the assembly of Canada, the qualifications or dis- 

 qualifications of voters, the oaths to be taken by 

 Toters, the returning officers, their powers and duties, 

 the proceedings at elections, the periods during 

 Miicli such elections may be continued, and the trial 

 ot' controverted elections, and the proceedings inci- 

 dent thereto, the vacating of the seats of members, 

 ami the issuing and execution of new writs in cue 

 of seats vacated otherwise than by dissolution, shall 

 respectively apply to elections of menrbers 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 

 ot the. Province of Canada to vote, every British sub- 

 ject, 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 tour 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 

 legi-lative assembly of Quebec being sooner dis- 

 solved 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 be- 

 tween the last sitting of the legislature in each Prov- 

 ince 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 ana 

 apply to the legislative assemblies of Ontario and 

 Quebec, that is to say, the provisions relating to tho 

 election of a speaker originally and on vacancies, tho 

 duties of the speaker, the absence of the speaker, thu 

 quorum, and the mode of voting, as if those pro- 

 visions were here re6nacted and made applicable in 

 terms to each such legislative assembly. 



88. 4. Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. The con- 

 stitution 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 soon- 

 er dissolved, continue for the period for which it was 

 elected. 



89. 5. Ontario, Quebec, and Nona 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 

 lit, and at such time and addressed to such returning 

 ollicer as the governor-general directs, and so that the 

 first election of member of assembly for any electo- 

 ral ilistrict or any subdivision thereof shall'be held 

 at the same time and at the same places as the elec- 

 tion for a member to serve in the house of commons 

 of Canada for that electoral district. 



90. 6. Th Four Province*. 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, tho 



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 

 ns if those provisions were reCnacted and made appli- 

 cable in terms to the respective Provinces aud tho 

 legislatures thereof, with the substitution of the lieu- 

 tenant-governor of the Province for the governor- 

 general, of the governor-general for the Queen, and 

 for a secretary of state, or one year, for two years, 

 and of the Province for Canada. 



