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DOMINION OF CANADA. 



The following are the cities and towns hav- 

 ing more than 5,000 inhabitants: 



The Dominion is governed by a Governor- 

 General, assisted by a cabinet of 13 members 

 (Minister of Public Works, Minister of Justice, 

 Minister of Marine and Fisheries, Minister of 

 Agriculture and Statistics, Minister of Finance, 

 Minister of the Interior, Secretary of State, 

 Minister of Customs, Postmaster-General, Re- 

 ceiver-General, Minister of Inland Revenue, 

 Minister of Militia and Defense, and President 

 of the Privy Council) ; a Senate of 77 mem- 

 bers 3 from British Columbia, 2 from Mani- 

 toba, 10 from New Brunswick, 10 from Nova 

 Scotia, 24 from Ontario, 4 from Prince Edward 

 Island, and 24 from Quebec ; and a House of 

 Commons of 206 members 6 from British Co- 

 lumbia, 4 from Manitoba, 16 from New Bruns- 

 wick, 21 from Nova Scotia, 88 from Ontario, 

 6 from Prince Edward Island, and 65 from 

 Quebec. An act of the Dominion Parliament 

 was passed in 1875, known as " The Supreme 

 and Exchequer Court Act," which establishes 

 a Court of Common Law and Equity, in and 

 for the Dominion of Canada, to be called " The 

 Supreme Court of Canada," and a Court of 

 Exchequer, to be called " The Exchequer Court 

 of Canada." 



The Supreme Court is composed of a Chief- 



Justice and five puisne judges, who also com- 

 pose the Exchequer Court. They are appointed 

 by the crown by letters-patent under the great 

 seal of Canada, and hold office during good be- 

 havior, but may be removed by the Governor- 

 General upon the request of the Senate and 

 House of Commons. The Chief- Justice receives 

 an annual salary of $8,000 and the puisne judges 

 $7,000 each. The act further says : 



SECTION 13. The said Supreme Court, for the pur- 

 pose of hearing and determining appeals, shall hold 

 annually, at the city of Ottawa, two sessions, the one 

 beginning on the third Monday in January, and the 

 other beginning on the first Monday in June, in each 

 year, and each of the said sessions shall be con- 

 tinued until the business before the court shall have 

 been disposed of. 



SEO. 15. The Supreme Court shall have, hold, and 

 exercise an appellate civil and criminal jurisdiction 

 within and throughout the Dominion of Canada. 



SEO. 17. Subject to the limitations and provisions 

 hereinafter made, an appeal shall lie to the Supreme 

 Court from all final judgments of the highest court 

 of final resort, whether such court be a Court of 

 Appeal or of original jurisdiction now or hereafter 

 established in any province of Canada, in cases in 

 which the court of original jurisdiction is a Superior 

 Court ; provided that no appeal shall be allowed 

 from the province of Quebec, wherein the sum or 

 value of the matter in dispute does not amount to 

 two thousand dollars. 



SEO. 47. The judgment of the Supreme Court shall 

 in all cases be final and conclusive, and no appeal 

 shall be brought from any judgment or order of the 

 Supreme Court to any Court ot Appeal established 

 by the Parliament of Great Britain and Ireland, by 

 which appeals or petitions to her Majesty in Coun- 

 cil may be ordered to be heard ; saving any right 

 which her Majesty may be graciously pleased to ex- 

 ercise by virtue of her royal prerogative. 



SEO ; 49. Any person convicted of treason, felony, 

 or misdemeanor, before any Court of Over and 

 Terminer or jail delivery, or before the Court of 

 Queen's Bench in the province of Quebec on its 

 crown side, or before any other Superior Court of 

 criminal jurisdiction, whose conviction has been 

 affirmed by any court of last resort, or in the prov- 

 ince of Quebec by the Court of Queen's Bench on 

 its appeal side, may appeal to the Supreme Court 

 against the affirmation of such conviction ; provided 

 that no such appeal shall be allowed where the court 

 affirming the conviction is unanimous. 



SEO. 55. When the Legislature of any province 

 forming part of Canada shall have passed an act 

 agreeing and providing that the Supreme Court, or 

 the Exchequer Court, as the case may be, shall have 

 jurisdiction in any of the following cases, viz.: 1. 

 Of controversies between the Dominion of Canada 

 and such province; 2. Of controversies between such 

 province and any other province or provinces, which 

 may have passed a like act ; 3. Of suits, actions, or 

 proceedings in which the parties thereto by their 

 pleadings shall have raised the question of the va- 

 lidity of a Dominion act, when in opinion of a judge 

 of the court in which the same are pending such 

 question is material ; 4. Of suits, actions, or pro- 

 ceedings in which the parties thereto by their plead- 

 ings shall have raised the question of the validity of 

 a provincial act, when in the opinion of a judge of 

 the court in which the same are pending such ques- 

 tion is material ; then this section and the three fol- 

 lowing sections of this act shall be in force in the 

 class or classes of cases in respect of which such 

 provincial act may have been passed. 



SEO. 56. The procedure in the cases firstly and 

 secondly mentioned in the next preceding section 

 shall be in the Exchequer Court, and an appeal shall 

 lie in any such case to the Supreme Court. 





