Unforeseen Expenses; Expenditure thereof to be under Order in Coun- .... For purchase of life-boats and life-preservers, and maintenance of the To provide one half of the British share of the expenditure in reference Surveys in Manitoba and the North West Territories To refund amount received from sheriff, as proceeds of stone illegally! To secure the testing of spirituous liquors, as recommended by the committee to whom was referred the petitions in favor of prohibition. To provide for expenses in connection with the inspection and classification of vessels by the Government of Canada.... To pay expenses connected with organizing and carrying on Government in Prince Edward Island (in addition to revenue received therein).. COLLECTION OF REVENUES. Salaries and contingent expenses of the several ports, viz : 400 00 5,000 00 In Province of Ontario, 187,246 25 176,211 00 do New Brunswick. 79,736 50 CHAP. 27. An Act to make Temporary Provision for the Election of Members to serve in the House of Commons. [Assented to 23rd May. 1873.] HEREAS it is expedient to make temporary provision for Preamble, WHEREAS of Canada: Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: 1. This Act shall be in force during one year from the time of Duration of the passing thereof, and from thence until the end of the then next Act. session of Parliament, and no longer. four senior apply, subject 2. The laws in force in the several Provinces of Canada, Nova Election laws Scotia, and New Brunswick at the time of the Union, on the first in force in the day of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven relative, Provinces at to the following matters, that is to say, the qualifications and dis- the Union to qualification of persons to be elected or to sit or vote as Member's to certain of the Legislative Assembly or House of Assembly in the said exceptions. several Provinces respectively, the voters at elections of such members, the oaths to be taken by voters, the powers and duties of Returning Officers, and generally the proceedings at and incident to such elections, shall, as provided by "The British North America Act, 1867," continue to apply respectively to elections of Members to serve in the House of Commons for the Provinces of Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, subject to the exceptions and provisions hereinafter made. 3. The polling at any election of a Meinber to serve in the Polling to House of Commons, for any Electoral District in either of the continue one Provinces of Quebec or Ontario, shall continue for one day only; Ontario and day only in and the poll shall be opened at nine o'clock in the morning and Quebec, elosed at five o'clock in the afternoon of such day. 4. In the Province of Ontario, subject to the special provisions Qualification hereinafter made, the qualification of voters at elections for Mem- of voters ni bers of the House of Commons shall be that established by the laws Ontario. in force in that Province on the twenty-third day of January one thousand eight and sixty-nine, as the qualification of voters at elections of Members of the Legislative Assembly; and the voters' Voters lista. lists to be used at elections of Members of the House of Commons shall be the same as if such elections were of Members of the Legislative Assembly on the basis of the qualification aforesaid; and the polling sub-divisions or wards shall be the same as if such elec- Polling su tions were for Members of the Legislative Assembly; and the divisions. Returning Officer shall provide a polling place for each sub-division or ward, in the most central and convenient place for such elections. Polling paces. Oath of voters. Qualification, &c., Algoma, new Townships in Renfrew, Where voters made. 5. The oath or affirmation to be required of voters in the said Province, shall be that prescribed by the fifty-fourth section of chapter six, of the Consolidated Statutes of Canada, and no other, except only in the Electoral Districts of Algoma and Muskoka, as hereinafter provided. 6. In the Electoral Districts of Algoma and Muskoka, and in the new townships added during the session of Parliament held in the thirty-fifth year of Her Majesty's reign, to the South Riding of the County of Renfrew, the persons entitled to vote at elections for Members of the House of Commons shall be male persons, of the full age of twenty-one years, subjects of Her Majesty by birth or naturalization, and not otherwise disqualified; being at the time of the election, owners of real estate in the Electoral District for which they claim to vote, of the value of two hundred dollars or upwards, or householders in the same, and having been such owners or householders, during the six months next preceding the election; subject to the following provisions : (1.) In any place in the said Electoral Districts of Algoma and lists have been Muskoka, or in the said new townships in Renfrew, for which voters' lists have been made, the same provisions shall apply as in other Electoral Districts in the said Province, and the oath or affirmation to be required of voters shall be the same; In other places Proceedings Voters' lists in Quebec. (2.) In other places in the said Electoral Districts of Muskoka and Algoma, and in the said new townships, the oath or affirmation to be required of voters, shall be varied by omitting the words "that you are (name of voter) whose name is entered on the list of voters now shown to you," and inserting instead thereof the words " that you are the owner of real estate in this Electoral District, of the value of two hundred dollars," (or "that you are a householder at in this Electoral District, (as the case may be,) and that you have been such owner, (or such householder,) during the six months next preceding this election." 7. In the said Electoral Districts of Algoma and Muskoka, the like rules shall be observed and the like instructions given, for the conduct of and proceedings at elections of Members of the House of Commons, as were observed and given at the now last election of Members of the said Electoral Districts respectively; except as regards the qualification of electors and the oath or affirmation which may be required of them, which shall be as hereinbefore provided; and except also as to those townships and places in which voters' lists have been made, to and in which the laws relating to the qualification of voters and the conduct of and proceedings at elections in Electoral Districts other than Algoma and Muskoka, shall apply and be observed. 8. In the Province of Quebec : Any copy of the voters' list certified as being a true copy thereof, by the Clerk, Treasurer or Secretary Treasurer, having made or |