PUBLIC DOCUMENTS. 



in this act, subject to the right of Canada to assume 

 any lands or public property required for fortifica- 

 tions 01 for the defence of the country. 



118. The following sums shall be paid yearly by 

 Canada to the several Provinces for the support of 

 their governments and legislatures : 



Ontario $80,000 



Quebec 70,000 



Nova Scotia 60.000 



New Brunswick 50,000 



$200,000 



and an annual grant in aid of each Province shall be 

 .made, equal to eighty cents per head of the popula- 

 tion, 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 re- 

 main. Such grants shall be in full settlement of all 

 future demands on Canada, and shall be paid half- 

 yearly in advance to each Province ; but the Gov- 

 ernment of Canada shall deduct from such grants, 

 as against any Province, all sums chargeable as 

 interest on the public debt of that Province in ex- 

 cess 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 Bruns- 

 wick 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 manu- 

 facture 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 Prov- 

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

 tinue in force until altered by the Parliament of 

 Canada. 



123. Where custom duties are, at the union, levia- 

 ble on any goods, wares, or merchandises in any two 

 provinces, those goods, wares, and merchandises 

 may, from and after the union, be imported from one 

 of those Provinces into the other of them on proof 

 of payment of the customs duty leviable thereon 

 in the Province of exportation, and on payment 

 of such further amount (if any) of customs duty 

 as is leviable thereon in the Province of impor- 

 tation. 



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 Ne.w 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 con- 

 ferred upon them by this act, shall in each Province 



form one consolidated revenue fund, to be appropri- 

 ated for the public service of the Province. 



IX. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS. 



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 ia 

 offered, does not within thirty days thereafter, by 

 writing under his hand, addressed to the governor- 

 general of the Province of Canada, or to the lieu- 

 tenant-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 per- 

 son who, being, at the passing of this act, a mem- 

 ber 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 governor- 

 general, 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 lieutenant- 



fovernor of the Province, or some person authorized 

 y 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 governor- 

 general, or some person authorized by Trim, 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 Bruns- 

 wick at the union, and all courts of civil and crim- 

 inal jurisdiction, and all legal commissions, powers, 

 and authorities, and all officers, judicial, administra- 

 tive, 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 en- 

 acted 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 re- 

 pealed, abolished, or altered by the Parliament of 

 Canada, or by the legislature of the respective Prov- 

 inces, according to the authority of the Parliament 

 or of that legislature under this act. 



130. Until the Parliament of Canada otherwise pro- 

 vides, all officers of the several provinces having 

 duties to discharge in relation to matters otber than 

 those coming within the clauses of subjects by this 

 act assigned exclusively to the legislatures of the 

 Provinces shall b<} officers of Canada, and shall con- 

 tinue 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 appoiut such officers as the governor- 

 general 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 per- 

 forming the obligation? of Canada or of any Province 

 thereof as par I 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 



