into the Dominion, Canada became liable for the debts and liabili-
ties of each Province, existing at the time of its becoming part of
the Dominion, subject to the provision that each Province should,
in account with Canada, be charged with interest at the rate of
five
per cent.
per annum on the amount by which its said debts and
liabilities exceeded, or should receive interest at the same rate by
half yearly payments in advance, on the amount by which its said
debts and liabilities fell short of, certain fixed amounts;

And whereas the amount fixed as aforesaid in the case of the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec, conjointly (as having theretofore formed the Province of Canada), was sixty-two million five hundred thousand dollars ($62,500,000), and the debt of the said late Province, as now ascertained, exceeded the said sum by ten million five hundred and six thousand and eight-eight dollars and eightyfour cents ($10,506,088.84) for the interest as aforesaid on which the said two Provinces were chargeable in account with Canada;

And whereas it is expedient to relieve the said Provinces of Ontario and Quebec from the said charge, and for that purpose hereafter to consider the fixed amount in their case as increased by the said sum of ten million five hundred and six thousand and eighty-eight dollars and eighty-four cents; and to compensate the other Provinces for this addition to the general debt of Canada: Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:

and Ontario ;

Provinces in same propor.

1. In the accounts between the several Provinces of Canada Increase of the sum fixed by and the Dominion, the amounts payable to and chargeable against B. N. A. Act, the said Provinces respectively, in so far as they depend on the as to Quebec amount of debt with which each Province entered the Union, and as to other shall be calculated and allowed as if the sum fixed by the one hundred and twelfth section of "The British North America Act, 1867," were, increased from sixty-two million five hundred thousand dollars, to the sum of seventy-three million, six thousand and eighty-eight dollars and eighty-four cents, and as if the amounts fixed as aforesaid, as respects the Provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, by " The British North America Act, 1867," and as respects the Provinces of British Columbia and Manitoba by the terms and conditions on which they were admitted into the Dominion, were increased in the same proportion.

July, 1873.

2. The subsidies to the several Provinces, in July, one thousand Subsidies in eight hundred and seventy-three, shall be paid in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this Áct.

this Act how

3. All sums payable under this Act shall be a charge upon and Sums under yable out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of Canada and paid and counted for in like manner as other moneys payable for like accounted for rposes out of the same.

CHAP.

Preamble.

Enactments of 31 V.c. 33.

and

CHAP. 3i.

An Act for the re-adjustment of the salaries and allow-
ances of the Judges and other Public Functionaries and
Officers, and of the indemnity to the Members of the
Senate and House of Commons.

W

[Assented to 23rd May, 1873.]

HEREAS it is expedient, in view of the increased cost of living consequent upon the diminished value of money and other causes, to re-adjust the salaries and allowances of the Judges and other public functionaries and officers, hereinafter mentioned, and the indemnity to the members of the Senate and House of Commons: Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:-

1. So much of the Act passed in the thirty-first year of Her Majesty's reign and intituled, "An Act respecting the Governor General, the Civil List, and the salaries of certain Public Functionaries," and of the Act passed in the session held in the thirtysecond and thirty-third years of Her Majesty's reign and intituled, 32, 33 V.c. 20. “An Act to amend the Act thirty-first Victoria, chapter thirtythree, and to make further provision with respect to the salaries and travelling allowances of the Judges," and of the Act passed in the thirty-fifth year of Her Majesty's reign and intituled, “An Act inconsistent further to amend the Act 31 Victoria chapter 33," as fixes the salary and allowances of any judge, public functionary or officer hereinafter mentioned otherwise than the same is or are fixed by this Act, or as may be in any wise inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, is hereby repealed.

35 V.c. 20

herewith repealed.

Salaries of
Ministers.

2. The salaries of the following Ministers, Members of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada, shall be as follows, viz. :—

The Minister of Justice and Attorney
General......

$7,000 per annum.

The Minister of Militia and Defence...

7,000

And the Member of the Queen's Privy Council holding the recognized position of First Minister shall receive, in addition, one thousand dollars per annum, commencing from 1st January, 1873.

3. The salaries of the Lieutenant Governors of the several Salaries of Lt. Governors. Provinces shall be as follows, viz. :→

The Lieutenant Governor of New

The Lieutenant Governor of Quebec. $10,000 per annum.
The Lieutenant Governor of Ontario.
The Lieutenant Governor of Nova

10,000

the Province

4. The Legislature of the Province of Quebec having at its now Of Judges in last session enacted that the Superior Court for that Province of Quebec. shall be composed of one Chief Justice and twenty-five Puisné Judges, the salaries of the several Judges of the Court of Queen's Bench and the Superior Court for the said Province shall be as follows, viz. :

Of Judges in

5. The salaries of the Judges of the Court of Queen's Bench, the Province Chancery and Common Pleas in the Province of Ontario, shall be of Ontario. as follows, viz. :

And to the present presiding Judge of the Court of Error and Appeal for the said Province, there shall be paid in addition to his

present

Of Judges in

present allowance as such, a further allowance of one thousand dollars per annum, that sum being equal to the increase hereby made to the salary of the Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench, the office theretofore held by the said presiding Judge.

6. The salaries of Judges of the Supreme Court in the Province the Province of Nova Scotia, shall be as follows, viz. :—

of Nova Scotia,

Travelling allowances of said Judges.

Of Judges in the Province

of Manitoba.

Of Judges in the Province

of British

Columbia.

Salaries and
allowances of

County Court
Judges in

Ontario and
New Bruns-

wick.

7. The travelling allowances of each of the Judges mentioned in the four next preceding sections, shall be, as at present, such as may be allowed him by the Governor in Council.

8. The salaries of the Judges of the Court of Queen's Bench in the Province of Manitoba, shall be as follows, viz. :

The Chief Justice of the said Court. $5,000 per annum.
Two Puisné Judges of the said Court,

each.....

4,000

9. The salaries of the Judges of the Supreme Court of British Columbia appointed after the passing of the said Act, passed in the thirty-fifth year of Her Majesty's reign, intituled “An Act to amend the Act 31 Victoria chapter 33," shall be as follows, viz. :

The Chief Justice of the said Court...
Two Puisné Judges of the said Court,
each......

$5,000 per annum.

4,000

:

The salaries of the Chief Justice and Puisné Judge of the said Court appointed before the passing of the said Act, remaining as mentioned in it.

10. Except in the County of York, in the Province of Ontario, and the County of St. John, in the Province of New Brunswick; the salary of each County Court Judge to be hereafter appointed, shall be two thousand dollars per annum, with two hundred dollars for travelling expenses; and the salary of any County Court Judge, or of the Judge of the District of Algoma, hereafter appointed, or heretofore appointed and having heretofore received a salary less than two thousand four hundred dollars per annum, shall, after a period of three years of service as such County Court Judge, be two thousand four hundred dollars per annum, with the travelling allowances aforesaid; and in each of the said Counties of York and St. John, the salary of any County Judge hereafter appointed shall be two thousand four hundred dollars, with two hundred dollars for travelling expenses; and the salary of the pr sent Judge of the County Court of the County of St. Johz shall

be

be the sum last aforesaid, the salary of the present Judge of the County Court of the said County of York remaining as it now is:

The salary of each Junior Judge of a County Court in either of Junior Judges. the said Provinces shall be two thousand dollars per annum, with two hundred dollars for travelling expenses.

creases shall

11. The several increases of salaries, and other changes made From what by the foregoing sections of this Act, shall take effect from and time the inafter the first day of January in the present year one thousand take effect. eight hundred and seventy-three, and the increased salaries shall be payable in the same manner, out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of Canada, as provided by the Act first herein before cited with respect to the salaries therein mentioned.

lowance to

Ontario and

12. In case any Judge of a County Court in either of the Pro- Retiring alvinces of Ontario or New Brunswick becomes, after having con- County tinued in such office of Judge of a County Court in either of the Judges in said Provinces for fifteen years or upwards, afflicted with some New Bruns permanent infirmity disabling him from the due execution of his wick. office, then in case such Judge resigns his office, Her Majesty may by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Canada, reciting such period of office and his disability from permanent infirmity duly to exécute his office, grant such County Judge an annuity equal to two-thirds of the annual salary of which he was in receipt at the time of his resignation,-to commence immediately after his resignation and to continue thenceforth during his natural life and be payable pro rata for any period less than a year during such continuance, out of any unappropriated moncys forming part of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of Canada.

13. The Act passed in the thirty-first year of Her Majesty's Act 31 V.c.3. reign, and intituled "An Act relating to the Indemnity to Members and the Salaries of the Speakers, of both Houses of Partiament," is hereby amended as follows, viz. :

(1.) The first section of the said Act is hereby repealed and the New Section following substituted for it, as the first section of the said Act, in place of

In each session of Parliament there shall be allowed to each Member of the Senate and House of Commons, attending at such session, ten dollars for each day's attendance, if the session do not extend beyond thirty days; and if the session extends beyond thirty days, then there shall be payable to each Member of the Senate and House of Commons attending at such session a seesional allowance of one thousand dollars, and no more."

section 1.

Sections 2 and sec5 amended.

(2.) The deductions to be made under the second and fifth tions of the said Act, shall be made at the rate of eight dollars per day, instead of five dollars as provided by the said sections.

5 amended.

(3.) The words "ten dollars" shall be substituted for the words Sections 3 and "six dollars" whenever the last mentioned words occur in the third and fifth sections of the said Act.