Consolidated Municipal Loan Fund, Upper Canada. Consolidated Municipal Loan Fund, Lower Canada. Lower Canada Legislative Grant. Quebec Fire Loan. Tamiscouata Advance Account. Quebec Turnpike Trust. Education-East. Building and Jury Fund, Lower Canada. Municipalities Fund. Lower Canada Superior Education Income Fund. The FIFTH SCHEDULE. OATH OF ALLEGIANCE. I, A. B. do swear, That I will be faithful and bear true Allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Victoria. Note.-The name of the King or Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for the time being is to be substituted from time to time, with proper terms of reference thereto. DECLARATION OF QUALIFICATION. I, A.B. do declare and testify, That I am by law duly qualified to be appointed a member of the Senate of Canada [or as the case may be], and that I am legally or equitably seised as of freehold for my own use and benefit of lands or tenements held in free and common socage [or seised or possessed for my own use and benefit of lands or tenaments held in franc-alleu or in roture (as the case may be),] in the Province of Nova Scotia [or as the case may be] of the value of four thousand dollars over and above all rents, dues, debts, mortgages, charges, and incumbrances due or payable out of or charged on or affecting the same, and that I have not collusively or colourably obtained a title to or become possessed of the said lands and tenements or any part thereof for the purpose of enabling me to become a member of the Senate of Canada [or as the case may be], and that my real and personal property are together worth four thousand dollars over and above my debts and liabilities. Confederation Act Amendment Act, 1871. An Act72 respecting the Establishment of Provinces in the Dominion of Canada. [29TH JUNE, 1871. WHEREAS73 doubts have been entertained respecting the powers of the Parliament of Canada to establish Provinces in territories admitted, or which may hereafter be admitted, into the Dominion of Canada, and to provide for the representation of such Provinces in the said Parliament, and it is expedient to remove such doubts, and to vest such powers in the said Parliament: Be it 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. This Act may be cited for all purposes as The British Short title. North America Act, 1871. 2. The Parliament of Canada may from time to time Parliament of Canada may establish new Provinces in any territories forming for the establish new time being part of the Dominion of Canada, but not in- Provinces and provide for the cluded in any Province thereof, and may, at the time of constitution, etc., thereof. such establishment, make provision for the constitution and administration of any such Province, and for the passing of laws for the peace, order and good government of such Province, and for its representation in the said Parliament. limits of 3. The Parliament of Canada may from time to time, Alteration of with the consent of the Legislature of any Province74 of the Provinces. said Dominion, increase, diminish, or otherwise alter the limits of such Province, upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed to by the said Legislature, and may, with Parliament of Canada may legislate for any territory not included in a Province. Confirmation 33 V. c. 3. Limitation of to legislate for the like consent, make provision respecting the effect and operation of any such increase or diminution or alteration of territory in relation to any Province affected thereby. 4. The Parliament of Canada may from time to time make provision for the administration, peace, order, and good government of any territory75 not for the time being included in any Province. 5. The following Acts passed by the said Parliament of Canada, and intituled respectively: "An Act for the temporary government of Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory when united with Canada ;" and "An Act to amend and continue the Act thirty-two and thirty-three Victoria, chapter three, and to establish and provide for the government of the Province of Manitoba," shall be and be deemed to have been valid and effectual for all purposes whatsoever from the date at which they respectively received the assent, in the Queen's name, of the Governor General of the said Dominion of Canada. 6. Except as provided by the third section of this Act, it shall not be competent for the Parliament of Canada to alter the provisions of the last mentioned Act of the said Parliament in so far as it relates to the Province of Manitoba, or of any other Act hereafter establishing new Provinces in the said Dominion, subject always to the right of the Legislature of the Province of Manitoba to alter from time to time the provisions of any law respecting the qualification of electors and members of the Legislative Assembly, and to make laws respecting elections in the said Province. Confederation Act Amendment Act, 1875. An Act to remove certain doubts with respect to the powers of the Parliament of Canada, under Section 18 of the British North America Act, 1867. [19TH JULY, 1875. WHEREAS by section 18 of The British North America Act, 1867, it is provided as follows: "The privileges, immunities, and powers to be held, enjoyed, and exercised by the Senate and by the House of Commons, and by the members thereof respectively, shall be such as are from time to time defined by Act of the Parliament of Canada, but so that the same shall never exceed those at the passing of this Act held, enjoyed, and exercised by the Commons House of Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and by the members thereof." And whereas doubts77 have arisen with regard to the power of defining by an Act of the Parliament of Canada, in pursuance of the said section, the said privileges, powers or immunities; and it is expedient to remove such doubts: 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. Section 18 of The British North America Act, 1867, is Substitution of new section hereby repealed, without prejudice to anything done under for section 18 that section, and the following section shall be substituted of 30 and 31 V. for the section so repealed : The privileges, immunities, and powers to be held, enjoyed and exercised by the Senate and by the House of Commons, and by the members thereof respectively, shall be such as are from time to time defined by Act of the H.C.C. 15 c. 3. Confirmation of Act of Parliament of Canada. Short title. Parliament of Canada, but so that any Act of the Parliament of Canada defining such privileges, immunities and powers shall not confer any privileges, immunities, or powers exceeding those at the passing of such Act held, enjoyed, and exercised by the Commons House of Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and by the members thereof. 2. The Act78 of the Parliament of Canada passed in the thirty-first year of the reign of her present Majesty, chapter twenty-four, intituled An Act to provide for oaths to witnesses being administered in certain cases for the purposes of either House of Parliament, shall be deemed to be valid, and to have been valid as from the date at which the royal assent was given thereto by the Governor General of the Dominion of Canada. 3. This Act may be cited as The Parliament of Canada Act, 1875. |