PUBLIC DOCUMENTS. 



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

 bee. 



i. -is of Parliament of Canada and of the legis- 



f Quebec nhall bo punted and published iu 

 both 



:nri' <>f Ontario or of Quebec 



1 -, the ttevtmuat-gorernor of On- 



may each appoint under tie 



:nee the following officers, to hold 



offic* during pleasure, ili.it i.s to aay: the attnrney- 



Mner 'Ury uud registrar of the Province, 



;.- Province, the commissioner of 



-, and '.ho commissioner of agriculture 



\vur.ks, and in the case of Quebec the 



. and may, by order of the licuten- 



r in council from time to time prescribe 



; ilmse officers and of the several depart- 



whieh tliev shall preside, or to which 



: ia!l belong, and of the oilicers and clerks 



I'; and iniiv also appoint other and additional 



Id ollico during pleasure, and may from 



time prescribe the duties of these officers. 

 : the several departments over which they shall 



. or to which tliev shall belong, and of the 



s arid clerks thereof. 



I 'mil the legislature of Ontario or Quebec 

 otherwise provides, all rights, powers, duties, func- 

 tions responsibilities, or authorities at the passing 

 of this act vested in or imposed on the attorney-gen- 

 eral, secretary and registrar of the Province of Can- 

 ada, minister of finance, commissioner of crown- 

 lands, commissioner of public works, and minister 



ioulturc, and receiver general, by any law, 

 , or ordinance of Upper Canada, Lower Can- 

 ada or Canada, and not repugnant to this act, shall 



id in or imposed on any officer to be ap- 

 d by the lieutcnant-goveruor for the discharge 

 of i ho 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 agri- 

 culture at the pas-inn of this act imposed by the 

 law of the Province of Canada, as well as those of the 

 commissioner of public works. 



186. Until altered by the lieutenant-governor in 

 council, the great seals of Ontario and Quebec re- 

 spectively shall be the same, or of the same design, 

 -e used in the Provinces of Upper Canada and 

 Lower Canada respectively before their union as the 

 Province of Canada. 



The words " and from thence to the end of 

 the then noxt 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 sub- 

 ject 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 respect- 

 ively, if the subject matter of the act is within tho 

 powers of the same as defined by thin 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, proc. ->, pleading matter, document, matter or 

 thing, shall not invalidate the same. 



139. Any proclamation under the great seal of the 

 Province of Canada issued before the union to take 

 i-flect at a time which is subsequent to the union, 

 whether relating to that Province or to Upper Can- 

 ada, or to Lower Canada, and the several matters 

 and things therein proclaimed, shall bo, and continue 

 of like force and elk-el as if the union hod not been 

 made. 



] ! '. Any proclamation which is authorized by any 

 aat of the legislature of the Province of Canada to 

 ued under the irreat seal of the Province of 

 Canada, whether relating to that Province, or to 

 1'pper Canada, or to Lower Canada, and which is 

 not issued before the union, may be issued by the 

 lieuteuaut-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 t 

 proclaim, d shall be, and continue of the lik- 

 and effect in Ontario or Quebec, as if the union bad 

 not been made. 



141. The penitentiary of the Province of Canada 

 shall, until the Parliament of Canada otherwise pro- 

 vides, 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 Can- 

 ada shall not be a resident either iu Ontario or 

 Quebec. 



148. 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 thicks 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 there- 

 from, duly certified by the officer having charge 

 of the original thereof, shall be admitted as evi- 

 dence. 



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 dav to be ap- 

 pointed 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 EAILWAT. 



145. Inasmuch as the Provinces of Canada, Nova 

 Scotia and New Brunswick have joined in a declara- 

 ration that the construction of the intsrcolonial rail- 

 way 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 conse- 

 quently agreed that provision should be made for its 

 immediate construction by the government of Can- 

 ada ; therefore, in order to give effect to that agree- 

 ment, it shall be the duty of the government and 

 Parliament of Canada to provide for the commence- 

 ment, 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, oy and with 

 the advice of her majesty's most honorable privy 

 council, on addresses from the houses of the Parlia- 

 ment of Canada, and from the houses of the rcspect- 



| islatures 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 ex- 



1 and as the Queen thinks fit to approve, sub- 

 ject to the provisions of this act ; and the provis- 

 ions of any order in council in that behalf shall have 

 effect as if they had "been enacted by the Parlia- 

 ment of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and 

 Ireland. 



147. In case of the admission of Newfoundland 

 and Prince Ldward Island, or either of them, each 

 shall be entitled to a representation in the senate of 



