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Salary of G-overr.or-G-eneral. 105. Unless altered by the Parliament of Canada, the salary of the Governor-General shall be ten thousand pounds sterling money of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, payable out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of Canada, and the same shall form the third charge thereon. Appropriation from time to time. 10G. Subject to the several payments by this Act charged on the Consolidated Eevenue Fund of Canada, the same shall be appropriated by the Parliament of Canada for the public service. Transfer of stocks, &c. 107. All stocks, cash, banker's balances, and securities for money belonging to each Province at the time of the Union, except as in this Act mentioned, shall be the property of Canada, and shall be taken in reduction of the amount of the respective debts of the Provinces at the Union. Transfer of property in Schedule. 108. The public works and property of each Province, enumerated in the Third Schedule tothis Act, shall be the property of Canada. Property in lands, mines, &c. 109. All lands, mines, minerals, and royalties belonging to the several Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick at the Union, and all sums then due or payable for such lands, mines, minerals, or royalties, shall belong to the several Provinces of Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick in which the same are situate or arise, subject to any trusts existing in respect thereof, and to any interest other than that of the Province in the same. Assets connected with Proyineial debts. 110. All assets connected with such portions of the public debt of each Province as are assumed by that Province shall belong to that Province. Canada to be liable to Provincial debts. 111. Canada shall be liable for the debts and liabilities of each Province existing at the Union. Debts of Ontario and Quebec. 112. Ontario and Quebec conjointly shall be liable to Canada for the amount (if any) by which the debt of the Province of Canada exceeds at the Union sixty-two million five hundred thousand dollars, and shall be charged with interest at the rate of five per centum per annum thereon. Assets of Ontario and Quebec. 113. The assets enumerated in the fourth Schedule to this Act belonging at the Union to the Province of Canada shall be the property of Ontario and Quebec conjointly. Debt of Nova Scotia. 114. Nova Scotia shall be liable to Canada for the amount (if any) by which its public debt exceeds at the Union eight million dollars, and shall be charged with interest at the rate of five per centum per annum thereon. Debt of New Brunswick. 115. New Brunswick shall be liable to Canada for the amount (if any) by which its public debt exceeds at the Union seven million dollars, and shall be charged with interest at the rate of five per centum per annum thereon. Payment of interest to Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. 116. In case the public debts of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick do not at the Union amount to eight million and seven million dollars respectively, they shall respectively receive by half-yearly payments in advance from the Government of Canada interest at five per centum per annum on the difference between the actual amounts of their respective debts and such stipulated amounts. Provincial public property. 117. The several Provinces shall retain all their respective public property not otherwise disposed of in this Act, subject to the right of Canada to assume any lands or public property required for fortifications or for the defence of the country. Grants to Provinces. 118. The following sums shall be paid yearly by Canada to the several Provinces for the support of their Government and Legislatures: Dollars. Ontario ... ... ... ... ... Eighty thousand. Quebec ... ... ... ... ... Seventy thousand. Nova Scotia ... ... ... ... Sixty thousand. New Brunswick ... ... ... ... Fifty thousand. Two hundred and sixty thousand ; and an annual grant in aid of each Province shall be made, equal to eighty cents per head of the population as ascertained by the census of one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, and in the case of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, by each subsequent decennial census until the population of each of those two Provinces amounts to four hundred thousand souls, at which rate such grant shall thereafter remain. Such grant shall be in full settlement of all future demands on Canada, and shall be paid half-yearly in advance to each Province ; but the Government of Canada shall deduct from such grants, as against any Province, all sums chargeable as interest on the public debt of that Province in excess of the several amounts stipulated in this Act. Further grant to New Brunswick. 119. New Brunswick shall receive by half-yearly payments in advance from Canada for the period of ten years from the Union an additional allowance of sixty-three thousand dollars per annum; but as long as the public debt of that Province remains under seven million dollars, a deduction equal to 4

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THE BRITISH NORTH AMERICA ACT, 1867.