Deductions for ance. reckoned as days of attend ance. 63. A deduction at the rate of $4 per day shall be made non-attend- from the sessional allowance for every day on which the member does not attend a sitting of the House, or of some What shall be committee thereof, provided the House sits on such day; but each day during the session, after the first on which the member attends as aforesaid, on which there has been no sitting of the House, in consequence of its having adjourned over the day, or on which the member was in the place where the session was held, but was prevented by sickness from attending the sitting as aforesaid, shall be reckoned as a day of attendance at the session, for the purposes of this Act, and a member shall, for the purposes aforesaid, be held to be at the place where the session is held whenever he is within ten miles of such place. R. S. O. 1877, c. 12, s. 60. Allowance for 64. A member shall not be entitled to the said sessional less than thir- allowance for less than thirty-one days' attendance, reckoned as aforesaid, but his allowance for any less number of days shall be $6 for each day's attendance. R. S. O. 1877, c. 12, s. 61. ty-one days' attendance. How the compensation shall be payable. Where a per ber for only sion. 65. The compensation may be paid from time to time, as the member becomes entitled to it, to the extent of $4 for each day's attendance as aforesaid, but the remainder shall be retained by the clerk of the House until the close of the session, when the final payment shall be made. R. S. O. 1877, c. 12, s. 62. 66. If a person is from any cause a member of the Legisson is a mem- lative Assembly for a part only of a session, then, provided part of the Ses- he is a member for upwards of thirty days during the Session, he shall be entitled to the sessional allowance hereinbefore mentioned, subject to the deduction aforesaid for non-attendance as a member, and also to a deduction of $4 for each day of the session before he was elected, or after he ceased to be a member; but if he is a member for only thirty days or less, then he shall be entitled only to $6 for each day's attendance at the session, whatever be the length thereof. R. S. O. 1877, c. 12, s. 63. Allowance for mileage. Final payment at the close of Session. 67. There shall be also allowed to every member ten cents for every mile of the distance between the place of residence of the member and the City of Toronto, reckoning the distance going and coming according to the nearest mail route, which distance shall be determined and certified by the 'Speaker. R. S. O. 1877, c. 12, s. 64. 68. The sum due to every member at the close of a session shall be calculated and paid to him by the clerk of the House, on his making and signing before the clerk or accountant of Declaration to the House, or a justice of the peace, a solemn declaration, to be made by be kept by the clerk, stating the number of days' attendance and the number of miles of distance according to the nearest members. mail route, as determined and certified by the Speaker, for which he is entitled to the said allowance, and the amount of such allowance, after deducting the number of days (if any) which are to be deducted under any preceding section of this Act; and the declaration may be in the form of Schedule C hereunto annexed, and shall have the same effect as an affidavit in the same form. R. S. O. 1877, c. 12, s. 65. ance. 69. There is hereby granted to Her Majesty, out of any un- Grant for payappropriated moneys forming part of the Consolidated Revenue ing the allow Fund of this Province, an annual sum sufficient to enable Her Majesty to advance to the Clerk of the Legislative Assembly such sums as are required to pay the estimated amounts of the sessional allowance herein before mentioned. R. S. O. 1877, c. 12, s. 66. account for moneys re 70. The Clerk of the Legislative Assembly shall account for Clerk to all moneys received by him under this Act, in the same manner as for moneys advanced to him for the contingent expenses ceived by him. of the Legislative Assembly, and he may apply any surplus thereof to the payment of such contingent expenses, and may supply any deficiency of such estimated amount out of any moneys in his hands applicable to the payment of such contingent expenses. R. S. O. 1877, c. 12, s. 67. 71. The next preceding nine sections may be cited as "The Short mode of Members' Indemnity Clauses" of this chapter. R. S. O. 1877, citing. I, SCHEDULE A. (Referred to in Section 15.) FORM OF MEMBER'S OATH AS TO EXPENSES OF ELECTION. of the in the County of Sworn before me, this day of A.D. 18. Clerk of the Legislative Assembly R. S. O. 1877, c. 12, Sched. A. SCHEDULE B. (Referred to in Section 60.) FORM OF OATH TO BE ADMINISTERED. The evidence you shall give to this Committee touching the subject of the present inquiry shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth: So help you God. R. S. O. 1877, c. 12, Sched. B. SCHEDULE C. (Referred to in Section 68.) DECLARATION TO OBTAIN SESSIONAL ALLOWANCE. I, A. B., one of the members of the Legislative Assembly, solemnly declare that I reside at nearest mail route in which is distant by the miles, as determined by the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, from the City of Toronto, where the Session of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, which began on the 18 was held. 9 day of That the first day during the said Session on which I was present at Toronto, where the said Session was held, was the day of 18 That on the said day, and on each day of the said Session, after the said day, on which there was a sitting of the said Legislative Assembly, I attended such sitting, or a sitting of some Committee thereof,* except only on days, ** on of which I was prevented by sickness from attending as aforesaid, though I was then present at the said City of Toronto.*** (Signature) A. B. If the member attended a sitting of the House, or of some Committee, on every sitting day after the first on which he so attended, omit the words from * to ***; and if his non-attendance was not on any day occasioned by sickness, omit the words from ** to ***. If the person making the declaration became or ceased to be a member after the commencement of the Session, vary the form so as to state correctly the facts upon which the sum due to the member is to be calculated. R. S. O. 1877, c. 12, Sched. C. SECTION IV. EXECUTIVE GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC CHAP. 12. LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR AND DEPUTIES, p. 215. ER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of ena cts as follows: be a corpora 1. The Lieutenant-Governor and his successors shall be a Lieutenantcorporation sole ;-and all bonds, recognizances, and other in- Governor to struments by law required to be taken to him in his public tion sole. capacity, shall be taken to him and his successors by his name of office, and may be sued for and recovered by him or his successors, by his or their name of office as such;—and the same shall not in any case go to or vest in the personal representatives of the Lieutenant-Governor, during whose government the same were so taken. R. S. O. 1877, c. 13, s. 1. 2. The Lieutenant-Governor may, with the advice and con- Power to sent of the Executive Council, from time to time appoint any appoint Deputies for person or persons, jointly or severally, to be his Deputy or certain pur Deputies within any part or parts of the Province, for the pur- poses. pose of executing marriage licenses, money warrants and commissions under any Act of the Legislature of Ontario. R. S. O. 1877, c. 13, s. 2. CHAPTER 13. An Act respecting the Executive Council. Composition Appointment of Executive Officers. Duties of members of Executive Council may H ER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows: 1. The Executive Council shall be composed of such persons as the Lieutenant-Governor from time to time thinks fit; but shall not at any time consist of more than six members. R. S. O. 1877, c. 14, s. 1. 2. The Lieutenant-Governor may appoint under the Great Seal of the Province from among such persons as may be appointed members of the Executive Council the following officers to hold office during pleasure, that is to say:-an AttorneyGeneral, a Secretary and Registrar of the Province, a Treasurer of the Province, a Commissioner of Crown Lands, a Commissioner of Agriculture, a Commissioner of Public Works, and a Minister of Education; and may by Order in Council from time to time prescribe the duties of those officers and of the several departments over which they shall preside or to which they shall belong, and of the officers and clerks thereof; and (subject to the provisions of section 1) may also appoint other and additional officers to hold office during pleasure, and may from time to time prescribe the duties of those officers, and of the several departments over which they shall preside or to which they shall belong, and of the officers and clerks thereof. R. S. O. 1877, c. 14, s. 2. 3. Any of the powers and duties which have been heretofore, or may be hereafter, assigned by law to the officers now constituting, or who may hereafter constitute, the Execube assigned to tive Council, may, from time to time, by Order in Council, be other mem bers. Executive Councillor assigned and transferred, either for a limited period or otherwise, to any other of the said officers by name or otherwise. R. S. O. 1877, c. 14, s. 3. 4. If a member of the Executive Council of Ontario, whilst he holds such office, sits or votes as a member of the House of ing in House Commons of Canada, he shall thereby forfeit his office of Executive Councillor, and his appointment as Executive sitting or vot |