ensus in the Year One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, and
of each subsequent decennial Census, the Representation of the Four
Provinces shall be readjusted by such Authority, in such Manner, and
from such Time, as the Parliament of Canada from Time to Time provides,
subject and according to the following Rules:

(1.) Quebec shall have the fixed Number of Sixty-five Members:
(2.) There shall be assigned to each of the other Provinces such a
Number of Members as will bear the same Proportion to the Number
of its Population (ascertained at such Census) as the Number
Sixty-five bears to the Number of the Population of Quebec
(so ascertained):
(3.) In the Computation of the Number of Members for a Province a
fractional Part not exceeding One Half of the whole Number
requisite for entitling the Province to a Member shall be
disregarded; but a fractional Part exceeding One Half of that
Number shall be equivalent to the whole Number:
(4.) On any such Re-adjustment the Number of Members for a Province
shall not be reduced unless the Proportion which the Number of the
Population of the Province bore to the Number of the aggregate
Population of Canada at the then last preceding Re-adjustment of
the Number of Members for the Province is ascertained at the then
latest Census to be diminished by One Twentieth Part or upwards:
(5.) Such Re-adjustment shall not take effect until the Termination
of the then existing Parliament.

52. [Increase of Number of House of Commons.] The Number of Members
of the House of Commons may be from Time to Time increased by the
Parliament of Canada, provided the proportionate Representation of
the Provinces prescribed by this Act is not thereby disturbed.

Money Votes; Royal Assent.

53. [Appropriation and tax Bills.] Bills for appropriating any Part of
the Public Revenue, or for imposing any Tax or Impost, shall originate
in the House of Commons.

54. [Recommendation of Money Votes.] It shall not be lawful for the
House of Commons to adopt or pass any Vote, Resolution, Address, or Bill
for the Appropriation of any Part of the Public Revenue, or of any Tax
or Impost, to any Purpose that has not been first recommended to that
House by Message of the Governor General in the Session in which such
Vote, Resolution, Address, or Bill is proposed.

55. [Royal Assent to Bills, &c.] Where a Bill passed by the Houses of
the P