cers, their
Powers and Duties, the Proceedings at Elections, the Periods during
which such Elections may be continued, and the Trial of controverted
Elections and the Proceedings incident thereto, the vacating of the
Seats of Members and the issuing and execution of new Writs in case of
Seats vacated otherwise than by Dissolution,--shall respectively apply
to Elections of Members to serve in the respective Legislative
Assemblies of Ontario and Quebec.
Provided that until the Legislature of Ontario otherwise provides, at
any Election for a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for the
District of Algoma, in addition to Persons qualified by the Law of the
Province of Canada to vote, every male British Subject, aged Twenty-one
Years or upwards, being a Householder, shall have a Vote.
85. [Duration of Legislative Assemblies.] Every Legislative Assembly of
Ontario and every Legislative Assembly of Quebec shall continue for Four
Years from the Day of the Return of the Writs for choosing the same
(subject nevertheless to either the Legislative Assembly of Ontario
or the Legislative Assembly of Quebec being sooner dissolved by the
Lieutenant Governor of the Province), and no longer.
86. [Yearly Session of Legislature.] There shall be a session of the
Legislature of Ontario and of that of Quebec once at least in every
Year, so that Twelve Months shall not intervene between the last Sitting
of the Legislature in each Province in one Session and its first Sitting
in the next Session.
87. [Speaker, Quorum, &c.] The following Provisions of this Act
respecting the House of Commons of Canada shall extend and apply to
the Legislative Assemblies of Ontario and Quebec, that is to say,--the
Provisions relating to the Election of a Speaker originally and on
Vacancies, the Duties of the Speaker, the Absence of the Speaker, the
Quorum, and the Mode of voting, as if those Provisions were here
re-enacted and made applicable in Terms to each such Legislative
Assembly.
4.--NOVA SCOTIA AND NEW BRUNSWICK.
88. [Constitutions of Legislatures of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.]
The Constitution of the Legislature of each of the Provinces of Nova
Scotia and New Brunswick shall, subject to the Provisions of this Act,
continue as it exists at the Union until altered under the Authority
of this Act; and the House of Assembly of New Brunswick existing at
the passing of this Act shall, unless sooner dissolved, continue for
the Period f
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