lities, Properties, and Assets of Upper
Canada and Lower Canada shall be referred to the Arbitrament of Three
Arbitrators, One chosen by the Government of Ontario, One by the
Government of Quebec, and One by the Government of Canada; and the
Selection of the Arbitrators shall not be made until the Parliament of
Canada and the Legislatures of Ontario and Quebec have met; and the
Arbitrator chosen by the Government of Canada shall not be a Resident
either in Ontario or in Quebec.

143. [Division of Records.] The Governor General in Council may from
Time to Time order that such and so many of the Records, Books,
and Documents of the Province of Canada as he thinks fit shall be
appropriated and delivered either to Ontario or to Quebec, and the
same shall thenceforth be the Property of that Province; and any Copy
thereof or Extract therefrom, duly certified by the Officer having
charge of the Original thereof, shall be admitted as Evidence.

144. [Constitution of Townships in Quebec.] The Lieutenant Governor of
Quebec may from Time to Time, by Proclamation under the Great Seal
of the Province, to take effect from a Day to be appointed therein,
constitute Townships in those Parts of the Province of Quebec in which
Townships are not then already constituted, and fix the Metes and
Bounds thereof.

X.--INTERCOLONIAL RAILWAY.

145. [Duty of Government and Parliament of Canada to make Railway herein
described.] Inasmuch as the Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New
Brunswick have joined in a Declaration that the Construction of the
Intercolonial Railway is essential to the Consolidation of the Union of
British North America, and to the Assent thereto of Nova Scotia and New
Brunswick, and have consequently agreed that Provision should be made
for its immediate Construction by the Government of Canada: Therefore,
in order to give effect to that Agreement, it shall be the Duty of the
Government and Parliament of Canada to provide for the Commencement
within Six Months after the Union, of a Railway connecting the River
St. Lawrence with the City of Halifax in Nova Scotia, and for the
Construction thereof without Intermission, and the Completion thereof
with all practicable Speed.

XI.--ADMISSION OF OTHER COLONIES.

146. [Power to admit Newfoundland, &c., into the Union.] It shall be
lawful for the Queen, by and with the Advice of Her Majesty's Most
Honourable Privy Council, on Addresses from the Houses of