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2. There shall be payable yearly, and pro rata for any less Sums menperiod than a year, out of any unappropriated moneys forming this Act to part of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of Canada, the salaries be payable and sums of money mentioned in the following sections of this annual vote. Act, to the persons and for the purposes therein specified. R.S., c. 4, s. 1.

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3. The salaries of the lieutenant governors of the several Salaries of provinces shall be as follows, that is to say:

The Lieutenant Governor of Ontario....$10,000 per annum.
The Lieutenant Governor of Quebec.... 10,000
The Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia
The Lieutenant Governor of New Bruns-
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ministers.

4. The salaries of the following ministers, members of the Salaries of King's Privy Council for Canada, shall be as follows, that is to say:

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2. The member of the King's Privy Council holding the recognized position of first minister shall receive, in addition, five thousand dollars per annum. R.S., c. 4, s. 3; 50-51 V. c. 10, s. 1; 62-63 V., c. 23, s. 3; 4-5 E. VII., c. 12, s. 1.

5. The salary of the Solicitor five thousand dollars per annum.

General of Canada shall be 50-51 V., c. 14, s. 2.

6. The salary of the Secretary of the Governor General shall be two thousand four hundred dollars per annum. R.S., c. 4, 8. 4.

OTTAWA: Printed by SAMUEL EDWARD DAWSON, Law Printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty.

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CHAPTER 5.

An Act respecting the Representation in the House

of Commons.

SHORT TITLE.

1. This Act may be cited as the Representation Act. 3 E. Short title. VII., c. 60, s. 1.

INTERPRETATION.

2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,

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Definitions.

district.'

(a) electoral district' means a place entitled to return a 'Electoral member or members to the House of Commons; (b) where counties and territorial districts in the province Counties, of Ontario are referred to they shall be deemed to be such territorial districts, counties and territorial districts respectively as constituted Ontario. or defined by chapter three of the Revised Statutes of Ontario, 1897, intituled An Act respecting the Territorial Division of Ontario for Municipal and Judicial Purposes;

(c) where counties in the province of Quebec are referred to Counties, they shall be deemed to be such counties as constituted or Quebec. defined on the thirty-first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, by chapter seventy-five of

The Consolidated Statutes for Lower Canada;

(d) where counties in the province of Nova Scotia are Counties, referred to they shall be deemed to be such counties as Nova Scotia. constituted or defined on the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven;

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(e) in the descriptions of the electoral districts of the pro- Manitoba, vinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta and that Saskatchepart of the provisional district of Saskatchewan not in- Alberta cluded in the province of Saskatchewan, where meridians between ranges and boundaries of townships are referred to as the boundaries of electoral districts, these expressions mean the meridians and boundaries of townships in accordance with the Dominion lands system of surveys, and include the extension thereof in accordance with the said system;

(f) where provincial electoral districts in the province of Provincial British Columbia are referred to they shall be deemed to electoral dis

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tricts, British Columbia.

Provisional districts.

Territorial divisions.

Cities, towns and villages.

be such provincial electoral districts as constituted r
defined by the Redistribution Act, 1902, chaptered fifty-
eight of the British Columbia statutes of the year one
thousand nine hundred and two;

(g) where provisional districts are referred to the districts
intended are those mentioned in The Revised Statutes of
Canada, chapter seven, respecting the representation of the
Northwest Territories in the Parliament of Canada;
(h) except as hereinbefore otherwise provided, whenever any
word or expression is used to denote the name of any terri-
torial division such word or expression shall be held to
refer to such territorial division as it existed and was
defined on the twenty-fourth day of October, one thousand
nine hundred and three;

(i) wherever a municipality or place is referred to as a city
or a town or a village, and there was on the twenty-fourth
day of October, one thousand nine hundred and three,
within the territorial limits of the electoral district in the
description of which such reference occurs, a municipality
or place of the same name which then was a city or a town
or a village, but not of the class, city, town or village, as
the case may be,-specified, the reference shall be taken to
be to that municipality or place. 3 E. VII., c. 60, ss. 5, 6
and sch.; 4 E. VII., c. 35, s. 3.

Constitution of House of Commons.

CONSTITUTION OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.

3. The House of Commons shall consist of two hundred and fourteen members, of whom eighty-six shall be elected for the province of Ontario, sixty-five for the province of Quebec, eighteen for the province of Nova Scotia, thirteen for the province of New Brunswick, ten for the province of Manitoba, seven for the province of British Columbia, four for the province of Prince Edward Island, ten for the provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta and that part of the provisional district of Saskatchewan not included in the province of Saskatchewan, and one for the Yukon Territory. 2 E. VII., c. 37, s. 2; 3 E. VII., c. 60, s. 2; 4-5 E. VII., c. 3, s. 5, and c. 42, s. 5.

Electoral districts.

-ELECTORAL DISTRICTS AND REPRESENTATION.

4. The several provinces and the Yukon Territory respectively shall for the purposes of the election of members to serve in the House of Commons be divided into electoral districts, represented as hereinafter provided. 2 E. VII., c. 37, s. 2; 3 E. VII., c. 60, s. 3.

One member 5. Each of the electoral districts enumerated or defined or for each electoral dis- constituted in or by the schedule to this Act shall return one trict except member, except the electoral districts of Ottawa, Halifax and

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Queen's, Prince Edward Island, which shall each return two in Ottawa, members. 2 E. VII., c. 37, s. 2; 3 E. VII., c. 60, sch.

Halifax and
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specified.

6. Every town, village, township, parish or place lying Places not within the territorial limits of any electoral district, and not, by the schedule to this Act, specifically included in any other electoral district, shall be and be taken to be part of the electoral district in which it is so situated. 3 E. VII., c. 60, s. 4.

SCHEDULE.

ONTARIO.

There shall be, in the province of Ontario, eighty-five electoral districts, defined as follows:

I.

1. The county of Brant, exclusive of the electoral district of Brantford, as hereinafter defined, shall form and constitute the electoral district of Brant.

2. The county of Carleton, exclusive of the city of Ottawa and the townships of Gloucester and Osgoode, shall form and constitute the electoral district of Carleton.

3. The county of Dufferin shall form and constitute the electoral district of Dufferin.

4. The county of Dundas shall form and constitute the electoral district of Dundas.

5. The county of Durham shall form and constitute the electoral district of Durham.

6. The county of Frontenac, exclusive of the city of Kingston and the village of Portsmouth, shall form and constitute the electoral district of Frontenac.

7. The county of Glengarry shall form and constitute the electoral district of Glengarry.

8. The county of Grenville shall form and constitute the electoral district of Grenville.

9. The county of Haldimand shall form and constitute the electoral district of Haldimand.

10. The county of Halton shall form and constitute the electoral district of Halton.

11. The county of Leeds, exclusive of the electoral district of Brockville as hereinafter defined, shall form and constitute the electoral district of Leeds.

12. The county of Lennox and Addington shall form and constitute the electoral district of Lennox and Addington.

13. The county of Lincoln shall form and constitute the electoral district of Lincoln.

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