Canadian Parliamentary Companion and Annual Register

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Charles Herbert Mackintosh, John Alexander Gemmili
1889 - Canada
 

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Page 92 - Assembly , and must be begun by resolution moved in Committee of Supply, which is always a Committee of the whole House. In the course of the Session, estimates are submitted to a Committee of Supply ; and resolutions moved thereon, granting to the Crown the sums requisite for the management of the various departments of the Government, and the support of variouspublic and private institutions.
Page 88 - House shall endorse his name thereupon, and confine himself to a statement of the parties from whom it comes, the number of signatures attached to it, and the material allegations it contains. Petitions may be either written or printed ; provided always that the signatures of at least three petitioners are subscribed on the sheet containing the prayer of the Petition, except in the case of a single petitioner or corporation.
Page 434 - Honourable" during tenure of office. 9. Executive Councillors of the Provinces to be styled "Honourable" while in office. 10. Legislative Councillors in the Provinces not in future to have that title, but gentlemen who were Legislative Councillors in the Provinces at the time of the Union (1st July, 1867), to retain their title of "Honourable
Page 88 - THAT every such Petition not containing matter in breach of the Privileges of this House, and which, according to the Rules or usual Practice of this House, can be received, be brought to the Table by the direction of The Speaker, who shall not allow any Debate, or any Member to speak upon, or in relation to, such Petition ; but it may be read by the Clerk at the Table, if required.
Page 85 - Speaker or Chairman's decision is had, and to this decision due deference is at all times paid. The Speaker, while in the Chair, takes no part in the debate, it being his duty to regulate the manner in which business shall be transacted; to confine those members who address the House to the subject under consideration ; to give his opinion in all things which relate to order ; to put the matter in dispute into the form of a question, upon which the votes of members are taken, and to declare the majority...
Page 89 - Commons claim are : — The power of committing individuals to prison — the power of publishing matters which, if not issuing from such high authority, might become the subject of proceedings in a Court of Law — the power of directing the Law Officers of the Crown to prosecute persons accused of offences against the laws, or affecting the privileges of...
Page 86 - House, shall be personally responsible to The House and to The Speaker for the observance of the Rules, Orders, and Practice of Parliament, and Rules prescribed by The Speaker, and also for the payment of all fees and charges...
Page 92 - Territories ; and his signature shall be proof of the fact that such registers, archives, instruments of summons, commissions, letters patent, writs and other instruments and documents exist and are lawfully in his possession ; and any copy (signed by him...
Page 433 - The Officer commanding Her Majesty's Troops in the Dominion, if of the rank of Colonel or inferior rank, and the Officer commanding Her Majesty's Naval Forces on the British North American Station, if of equivalent rank ; their relative rank to be ascertained by the Queen's Regulations.

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