NORTHWEST TERRITORIES. 



NOVA SCOTIA. 



569 



west Territories, with such powers not inconsistent 

 with this act as may be from time to time conferred 

 upon them by the Governor-General in Council ; and 

 a majority shall form a quorum. 



When and so soon as the Lieutenant-Governor is 

 satisfied, by such proof as he may require, that any 

 district or portion of the Northwest Territories, not 

 exceeding an area of one thousand square miles, 

 contains a population of not less than one thousand 

 inhabitants of adult age, exclusive of aliens or unen- 

 franchised Indians, the Lieutenant-Governor shall, 

 by proclamation, erect such district or portion into 

 an electoral district, by a name and with boundaries 

 to be respectively declared in the proclamation, and 

 such electoral district shall thenceforth be entitled 

 to elect a member of the Council, or of the Legisla- 

 tive Assembly, as the case may be. 



The Lieutenant-Governor shall thereafter cause a 

 writ to be issued by the clerk of the Council in such 

 form and addressed to such returning-offlcer as he 

 thinks fit; and, until the Lieutenant-Governor and 

 Council of the Province otherwise provides, he shall 

 by proclamation prescribe and declare the mode of 

 providing voters' lists, the oaths to be taken by 

 votersj the powers and duties of returning and deputy 

 returning officers, the proceedings to be observed at 

 such elections, and the period during which .such 

 elections may be continued, and such other provi- 

 sions in respect to such election as he may think tit. 



The persons qualified to vote at such election shall 

 be the bona-fide male residents and householders of 

 adult age, not being aliens, or unenfranchised In- 

 dians, within the electoral district, and shall have 

 respectively resided in such electoral district for at 

 least twelve months immediately preceding the issue 

 of the said writ. 



Any person entitled to vote may be elected. 



When and so soon as the Lieutenant-Governor is 

 satisfied, as aforesaid, that any electoral district con- 

 tains a population of two thousand inhabitants of 

 adult age, exclusive of aliens or unenfranchised In- 

 dians, he shall issue his writ for the election of a 

 second member for the electoral district. 



When the number of elected members amounts to 

 twenty-one, the Council herein before appointed shall 

 cease and be determined, and the members so elect- 

 ed shall be constituted and designated as the Legis- 

 lative Assembly of the Northwest Territories, and 

 all the powers by this act vested in the Council shall 

 be henceforth vested in and exercisable by the said 

 Legislative Assembly. 



The number of members so to be elected, as here- 

 inbefore mentioned, shall not exceed twenty-one, at 

 which number the representation shall remain; the 

 members so elected shall hold their seats for a pe- 

 riod not exceeding two years. 



A court or courts of civil and criminal jurisdic- 

 tion shall be held in the said Territories, and in 

 every judicial district thereof when formed, under 

 such names, at such periods, and at such places, as 

 the Lieutenant-Governor may from time to time 

 order. 



The Governor may from time to time appoint, by 

 commission under the great seal, one* or more fit and 

 proper person or persons, not exceeding three, to be 

 and act as a stipendiary magistrate or stipendiary 

 magistrates within the Northwest Territories, who 

 shall hold office during pleasure, and who shall re- 

 side at such place or places as may from time to time 

 be ordered by the Governor in Council. 



Each stipendiary magistrate shall have jurisdic- 

 tion throughout the Northwest Territories, as here- 

 inafter mentioned, and shall also have jurisdiction 

 and may exercise within the Northwest Territories 

 the magisterial, judicial, and other functions apper- 

 taining to any justice of the peace, or any two jus- 

 tices of the peace, under any laws or ordinances 

 which may from time to time be in force in the 

 Northwest Territories. 



Each stipendiary magistrate shall preside over 



such courts in the Northwest Territories as shall 

 from time to time be assigned to him by the Lieu- 

 tenant-Governor. 



The Chief- Justice or any Judge of the Court of 

 Queen's Bench of the Province of Manitoba, with 

 any one of the stipendiary magistrates as an asso- 

 ciate, shall have power and authority to hold a court 

 under section 59. 



A person convicted of any offense punishable by 

 death may appeal to the Court of Queen's Bench of 

 Manitoba, which shall have jurisdiction to confirm 

 the conviction or to order a new trial ; and the mode 

 of such appeal j and all particulars relating thereto, 

 shall be determined from time to time by ordinance of 

 the Lieutenant-Governor and Council, or Assembly. 



Any stipendiary magistrate of the said Terri- 

 tories, or the Chief-Justice or any Judge of the Court 

 of Queen's Bench of the Province of Manitoba, shall 

 have power and authority to commit and cause to be 

 conveyed to jail in the Province of Manitoba, for 

 trial by the Court of Queen's Bench according to 

 the laws of criminal procedure in force in the said 

 Province, any person or persons at any time charged 

 with the commission of any offense against any of 

 the laws or ordinances in force in the Northwest 

 Territories, punishable by death or imprisonment in 

 the penitentiary; and the said Court of Queen's 

 Bench, or any Judge thereof, shall have power and 

 authority to have any person arraigned before the 

 said court on any such charge ; and the jury laws 

 and laws of criminal procedure of the said Province 

 shall apply to any such trial, except that the punish- 

 ment to be awarded upon conviction of any such 

 person shall be according to the laws in force in the 

 Northwest Territories; and the sentence may be 

 carried into effect in a penitentiary or other place of 

 confinement in the Northwest Territories, or in the 

 said Province, as if the same were in the Northwest 

 Territories. 



NOVA SCOTIA. The population and land 

 area, by electoral districts, are as follows : 



The executive government is administered 

 by a Lieutenant-Governor, appointed by the 

 Governor-General of the Dominion in Council, 

 assisted by an Executive Council of nine mem- 

 bers (Treasurer, Attorney-General, Provincial 

 Secretary, Commissioner of Public Works and 

 Mines, Commissioner of Crown Lands, and four 

 without office), appointed by himself and re- 

 sponsible to the Assembly. The legislative 

 power is vested in a Legislative Council of 21 

 members, appointed by the Lieutenant-Gov- 

 ernor for life, and a House of Assembly, of 38 



