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Power reserved to Parliament.

English and
French

languages to

be used.

Interest allowed to

on a certain

debt of

Canada.

(2) An appeal shall lie to the Governor-General in Council from any Act or decision of the Legislature of the Province, or of any Provincial Authority affecting any right or privilege of the Protestant or Roman Catholic minority of the Queen's subjects in relation to Education;

(3) In case any such Provincial Law, as from time to time seems to the Governor-General in Council requisite for the due execution of the provisions of this section, is not made, or in case any decision of the Governor-General in Council on any appeal under this section is not duly executed by the proper Provincial Authority in that behalf, then, and in every such case, and as far only as the circumstances of each case require, the Parliament of Canada may make remedial Laws for the due execution of the provisions of this section, and of any decision of the Governor-General in Council under this section.

23. Either the English or the French language may be used by any person in the debates of the Houses of the Legislature, and both those languages shall be used in the respective Records and Journals of those 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 under the British North America Act, 1867, or in or from all or any of the Courts of the Province. The Acts of the Legislature shall be printed and published in both those languages.

24. Inasmuch as the Province is not in debt, the said the Province Province shall be entitled to be paid, and to receive from the amount of the Government of Canada, by half-yearly payments in advance, interest at the rate of five per centum per annum on the sum of four hundred and seventy-two thousand and ninety dollars. 25. The sum of thirty thousand dollars shall be paid for support of yearly by Canada to the Province, for the support of its

Subsidy to the Province

and in pro

Government and Legislature, and an annual grant, in aid of Government the said Province, shall be made, equal to eighty cents per portion to its population. head of the population, estimated at seventeen thousand souls; and such grant of eighty cents per head shall be augmented in proportion to the increase of population, as may be shown by the census that shall be taken thereof in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, and by each subsequent decennial census, until its population amounts to four hundred thousand souls, at which amount such grant shall remain thereafter, and such sum shall be in full settlement of all future demands on Canada, and shall be paid halfyearly, in advance, to the said Province.

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26. Canada will assume and defray the charges for the Canada following services:

1. Salary of the Lieutenant-Governor.

2. Salaries and allowances of the Judges of the Superior

and District or County Courts.

3. Charges in respect of the Department of the Customs.

4. Postal Department.

5. Protection of Fisheries.

6. Militia.

7. Geological Survey.

8. The Penitentiary.

tain expenses.

provision.

9. And such further charges as may be incident to, and General connected with the services which, by the British North America Act, 1867, appertain to the General Government, and as are or may be allowed to the other Provinces.

[Sections 27-29 relate to customs and inland revenue and are effete.]

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for Dominion

30. All ungranted or waste lands in the Province shall be, Ungranted from and after the date of the said transfer, vested in the in the Crown Crown, and administered by the Government of Canada for purposes. the purposes of the Dominion, subject to, and except and so

Provisions as to Indian

title.

far as the same may be affected by, the conditions and stipulations contained in the agreement for the surrender of Rupert's Land by the Hudson's Bay Company to Her Majesty.

31. And whereas, it is expedient, towards the extinguishment of the Indian Title to the lands in the Province, to appropriate a portion of such ungranted lands, to the extent of one million four hundred thousand acres thereof, for the benefit of the families of the half-breed residents, it is hereby enacted, that, under regulations to be from time to time made by the Governor-General in Council, the Lieutenant-Governor shall select such lots or tracts in such parts of the Province as he may deem expedient, to the extent aforesaid, and divide Grant for half the same among the children of the half-breed heads of families residing in the Province at the time of the said transfer to Canada, and the same shall be granted to the said children respectively, in such mode and on such conditions as to settlement and otherwise, as the Governor-General in Council may from time to time determine.

breeds.

Quieting titles.

Grants by
H.B. Com-

pany.

The same.

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with permission;

32. For the quieting of titles, and assuring to the settlers in the Province the peaceable possession of the lands now held by them, it is enacted as follows:

1. All grants of land in freehold made by the Hudson's Bay Company up to the eighth day of March, in the year 1869, shall, if required by the owner, be confirmed by grant from the Crown.

2. All grants of estates less than freehold in land made by the Hudson's Bay Company up to the eighth day of March, aforesaid, shall, if required by the owner, be converted into an estate in freehold by grant from the Crown.

3. All titles by occupancy with the sanction and under the license and authority of the Hudson's Bay Company up to the eighth day of March, aforesaid, of land in that part of the Province in which the Indian Title has been extinguish

ed, shall, if required by the owner, be converted into an estate in freehold by grant from the Crown.

4. All persons in peaceable possession of tracts of land at By peaceable possession. the time of the transfer to Canada, in those parts of the Province in which the Indian Title has not been extinguished, shall have the right of pre-emption of the same, on such terms and conditions as may be determined by the Governor in Council.

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visions under

Council.

5. The Lieutenant-Governor is hereby authorized, under Lieutenantregulations to be made from time to time by the Governor- make proGeneral in Council, to make all such provisions for ascertain- Order in ing and adjusting, on fair and equitable terms, the rights of cutting Hay held and enjoyed by the settlers in the Province, and for the commutation of the same by grants of land from the Crown.

33. The Governor-General in Council shall from time to Governor in Council to time settle and appoint the mode and form of Grants of Land appoint form &c., of grants. from the Crown, and any Order in Council for that purpose when published in the Canada Gazette, shall have the same force and effect as if it were a portion of this Act.

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affected.

34. Nothing in this Act shall in any way prejudice or Rights of affect the rights or properties of the Hudson's Bay Company, pany not as contained in the conditions under which that Company surrendered Rupert's Land to Her Majesty.

[Sections 35 and 36 are long since effete.]

A.D. 1886.

Provision by
Parliament of
Canada for

representa

CHAPTER VIII.

THE B. N. A. ACT, 1886.

49-50 VICTORIA (IMP.), CHAPTER 35.

An Act respecting the Representation in the Parliament of
Canada of Territories which for the time being form part
of the Dominion of Canada, but are not included in any
Province (a).

[25th June, 1886.]

HEREAS it is expedient to empower the Parliament of

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Canada to provide for the representation in the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, or either of them, of any territory which for the time being forms part of the Dominion of Canada, but is not included in any Province:

Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords. Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1. The Parliament of Canada may, from time to time, make provision for the representation in the Senate and tion of terri House of Commons of Canada, or in either of them, of any territories which for the time being form part of the Dominion of Canada, but are not included in any Province thereof.

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3. Any Act passed by the Parliament of Canada before the passing of this Act for the purpose mentioned in this Act shall, if not disallowed by the Queen, be, and shall be deemed

(a) The effect of this Act is discussed in the notes to sections 21 and 37 of the B. N. A. Act, 1867, pp. 113 and 120.

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