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tures of Ontario and Quebec have met; and the arbitrator chosen by the Government of Canada shall not be a resident either in Ontario or Quebec. Division of records. 143. 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 aud 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. Constitution of Townships in Quebec. 144. 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. —Inteecolosial Railway. Duty of Government and Parliament of Canada to make railway herein described. 145. Inasmuch as the Provinces of .Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick have joined in a declaration that the construction of the Intercolonial ltailway 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. —Amnssrox of other Colonies. Power to admit Newfoundland, &c., into the Union. 14G. 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 the Parliament of Canada, and from the Houses of the respective Legislatures of the Colonies or Provinces of Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, and British Columbia, to admit those Colonies or Provinces, or any of them, into the Union, and on address from the Houses of the Parliament of Canada to admit Rupert's Land and the North-western Territory, or either of them, into the Union, on such terms and conditions in each case as are in the addresses expressed and as the Queen thinks fit to approve, subject to the provisions of this Act; and the provisions of any Order in Council in that behalf shall have effect as if they had been enacted by the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. As to representation of Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island in Senate. 147. Incase of the admission of Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island, or cither of them, each shall be entitled to a representation in the Senate of Canada of four Members, and (notwithstandinganything in this Act) in case of the admission of Newfoundland the normal number of Senators shall be seventy-six and the maximum number shall be eighty-two ; but Prince Edward Island when admitted shall be deemed to be comprised in the third of the three divisions into which Canada is, in relation to the Constitution of the Senate, divided by this Act, and accordingly, after the admission of Prince Edward Island, whether Newfoundland is admitted or not, the representation of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick in the Senate shall, as vacancies occur, be reduced from twelve to ten members respectively, and the representation of each of those Provinces shall not be increased at any time beyond ten, except under the provisions of this Act for the appointment of three or six additional senators under the direction of the Queen.

SCHEDULES. FIRST SCHEDULE. Electoral Districts of Ontario. A. Existing Electoral Divisions. Counties. 1. Presoott. 6. Carleton. 2. Glengarry. 7. Prince Edward. 3. Stormont. 8. Halton. 4. Dundas. 9. Essex. 5. Russell. Ridings of Counties. 10. North Riding of Lanark. 22. West Riding of York. 11. South Riding of Lanark. 23. North Riding of York. 12. North Riding of Leeds and North Riding of Grcnville. 24. North Riding of Wcutworth. 13. South Riding of Leeds. 25. South Riding of Wcutworth. 14. South Riding of Grem-ille. 26. East Riding of Elgin. 15. East Riding of Northumberland. 27. West Riding of Elgin. 16. West Riding of Northumberland (excepting therefrom 28. North Riding of Waterloo. the Township of South Monaghan). 29. South Riding of Waterloo. 17. East Riding of Durham. 30. North Riding of Brant. 18. West Riding of Durham. 31. South Riding of Brant. 19. North Riding of Ontario. 32. North Riding of Oxford. 20. South Riding of Ontario. 33. South Riding of Oxford. 21. East Riding of York. 34. East Riding of Middlesex.

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