CHAPTER 28. An Act respecting Subsidies and Allowances to the Provinces. SHORT TITLE. 1. This Act may be cited as the Provincial Subsidies Act. Short title. FIXED SUBSIDIES. New Brunswick. New Bruns duty on 2. The province of New Brunswick, in consideration of the Subsidy to Legislature thereof having passed an Act providing for the wick in lieu repeal of all duties of export on lumber exported from the of export Province, shall, so long as no such duties of export are imposed lumber. by the said Legislature, be paid, in addition to the subsidy to which the Province is entitled, a subsidy at the rate of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars annually, as indemnity for the loss of such duties and the right to impose the same. R.S., c. 46, s. 1. Prince Edward Island. Prince 3. To the province of Prince Edward Island, there shall Subsidy to continue to be paid in addition to all other subsidies and Edward allowances payable to the Province, an annual allowance or Island. subsidy of twenty thousand dollars, payable half-yearly in advance on the first days of July and January in each and every year. 2. To the said province of Prince Edward Island, in addi- Additional. tion to all other sums authorized by law, there shall also continue to be paid an annual allowance of thirty thousand dollars, payable half-yearly in advance on the first days of July and January in each and every year. ment of 3. Such last-mentioned annual allowance shall be paid and In settle accepted in full settlement of all claims of the Province against certain the Dominion of Canada on account of alleged non-fulfilment claims. of the terms of union between the Dominion and the Province as respects the maintenance of efficient steam communication between the Island and the mainland. 50-51 V., c. 8, s. 1; 1 E. VII., c. 3, s. 1. 21 321 Manitoba. Manitoba. Subsidy to For Government, etc. Readjust ment of per Indemnity for want of public lands. 4. The following amounts shall be allowed as the annual subsidy to the province of Manitoba, and shall be paid yearly to the Province, that is to say: (a) For the support of the Government and Legislature, fifty thousand dollars; (b) On an estimated population of one hundred and fifty thousand, at eighty cents per head, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars, subject to be increased as hereinafter mentioned, that is to say: a census of the Province shall be taken in every fifth year, reckoning from the general census of one thousand eight hundred and eightyone; and an approximate estimate of the population shall be made at equal intervals of time between each quinquennial and decennial census; and whenever the population, by any such census or estimate, exceeds one hundred and fifty thousand, which shall be the minimum on which the said allowance shall be calculated, the amount of the said allowance shall be increased accordingly, and so on, until the population has reached four hundred thousand souls; (c) As an indemnity for the want of public lands, one hundred thousand dollars. R.S., c. 46, s. 5. Allowances of debt. INTEREST ON DEBT ALLOWANCES. 5. In the accounts between the several provinces of Ontario, to provinces Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and British Columbia, to amount respectively, and Canada, the amounts payable to and chargeable against the said provinces respectively, in so far as they depend upon the amount of debt with which each province entered the Union, shall be calculated and allowed as if,(a) in the case of the provinces of Ontario and Quebec respectively, the sum fixed by the one hundred and twelfth section of The British North America Act, 1867, was increased from sixty-two million five hundred thousand dollars to seventy-three million six hundred and eightyeight dollars and eighty-four cents; (b) in the case of the province of Nova Scotia, the amount Scotia. 2. The increased subsidy to be allowed to the province of As to Nova Nova Scotia under this section shall be based upon the sum of nine million one hundred and eighty-six thousand seven hundred and fifty-six dollars, as if that sum had been mentioned in the one hundred and fourteenth section of The British North America Act, 1867, instead of the sum of eight million dollars. R.S., c. 46, s. 2. of allowances Scotia and wick. 6. In the accounts between the several provinces and Can- Calculation ada, the amounts by which the yearly subsidy to each province to Ontario was increased by the Act of the Parliament of Canada, passed and Quebec, in the thirty-sixth year of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria's and to Nova reign, chapter thirty, as explained with respect to Nova New BrunsScotia by the Act of the said Parliament, passed in the thirtyseventh year of Her said late Majesty's reign, chapter three, shall be calculated and allowed to Ontario and Quebec jointly, as having formed the late province of Canada, and to Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, as if the said Acts had directed that such increase should be allowed from the day of the coming into force of The British North America Act, 1867. at five per 2. The total amount of the half-yearly payments which would Capital bearin that case have been made on account of such increase from ing interest the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty- cent. seven, up to and including the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, with interest on each at five per centum per annum, from the day on which it would have been so paid to the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, shall be deemed capital owing to the said provinces respectively, bearing interest at five per centum per annum, which interest shall be payable to them as part of their yearly subsidies from Canada. R.S., c. 46, s. 3. Columbia Island. 7. In the accounts between Canada and the provinces of As to British British Columbia and Prince Edward Island, the amounts and Prince calculated and allowed as the debts of those provinces respect- Edward ively, on the nineteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, and on which they were then paid interest by Canada, shall be increased by amounts bearing the Increase. same proportion to the respective populations of the said provinces, as ascertained by the census of one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, as the total of the amounts to be added under the next preceding section as capital owing to Ontario and Quebec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, bear to the combined population of the four last-named provinces, as ascertained by the said census of one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one. at five per 2. The amounts of such increases, as regards the said pro- Capital bearvinces of British Columbia and Prince Edward Island, shall ing interest be deemed capital owing to the said provinces respectively, cent. bearing interest at the rate of five per centum per annum, which interest shall be payable to them as part of their respective subsidies from Canada. R.S., c. 46, s. 4. 8. Capital and yearly payments specified. 8. The amount of the increase of the yearly subsidy and the capital on which the same is payable to the several provinces respectively, under the two last preceding sections shall be as follows: Capital. To Ontario and Quebec jointly..$269,875.16 $5,397,503.13 Yearly increase. 798,793.45 604,519.35 Calculation of sum on Manitoba. 9. The capital sum on which the province of Manitoba is which inter- entitled to receive half-yearly payments of interest at the rate est is payable of five per centum per annum, as fixed by the Act passed in to Manitoba as subsidy. the thirty-third year of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria's reign, chapter three, and as readjusted or increased by any subsequent Act, shall continue to be calculated on a population of one hundred and twenty-five thousand, at a rate per capita ascertained by dividing the sum of five hundred and fifty-one thousand four hundred and forty-seven dollars, by seventeen thousand, which was the estimated population of the Province under the said Act, thirty-third Victoria, chapter three,-the said sum of five hundred and fifty-one thousand four hundred and forty-seven dollars being the amount of capital on which the Province was entitled to receive interest under and by virtue of section twenty-four of the Act hereinbefore last cited and the Act thirty-sixth Victoria, chapter thirty. Charges thereon. settlement of certain claims. 2. The Province shall be charged with such advances as had, up to the twentieth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, been made to the Province, and with such expenditure as had been made therein by the Dominion for purposes of a strictly local character, and with a further sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, which the Dominion Government may advance to the Province to meet the expenditure of constructing a lunatic asylum, and other exceptional services. R.S., c. 46, s. 6. Payments 10. The grant of swamp lands and the grant of lands not and grant of lands in exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand acres as an endowment to the University of Manitoba, authorized by Part I. of the Manitoba Supplementary Provisions Act, and the payments to the province of Manitoba herein before authorized, shall be made as a full settlement of all claims made by the said Province for the reimbursement of costs incurred in the government of the disputed territory, or the reference of the boundary question to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, and all other questions and claims discussed between the Dominion and the provincial Governments, up to the tenth day 324 day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five. R.S., c. 46, s. 7. ADVANCES. authorized. 11. The Governor in Council may, in his discretion, ad- Advances to vance, from time to time, to any province of Canada, any sums provinces required for local improvements in the province, and not exceeding in the whole the amount by which the debt of the province for which Canada is responsible then falls short of the debt with which the province was allowed to enter the Union: Provided that no such advance shall be made to any province unless it has been previously sanctioned by an Act of the legislature of that province. 2. Such advances shall be deemed additions to the debt of Conditions of such the province, and the province may repay them to Canada, on advances. such notice, in such sums and on such conditions as the Government of Canada and that of the province agree upon; and any amount so repaid shall be deducted from the debt of the province in calculating the subsidy payable to it. R.S., c. 46, s. 8. 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