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Subjects of

exclusive

Provincial

Legisla

tion

10. Local Works and Undertakings, other than such as are of the following Classes,

a. Lines of Steam or other Ships, Railways, Canals, Telegraphs, and other Works and Undertakings connecting the Province with any other or others of the Provinces, or extending, beyond the Limits of the Province:

b. Lines of Steam Ships between the Province and any British or Foreign Country:

c. Such Works as, although wholly situate within the Province, are before or after their Execution declared by the Parliament of Canada to be for the general Advantage of Canada or for the Advantage of Two or more of the l'rovinces. 11. The Incorporation of Companies with Provincial Objects.

12 Solemnization of Marriage in the
Province.

13. Property and Civil Rights in the
Province.
14. The Administration of Justice in
the Province, including the Con-
stitution, Maintenance, and Organ-
ization of Provincial Courts, both
of Civil and of Criminal Jurisdic-

tion,

tion, and including Procedure in
Civil Matters in those Courts
15. The Imposition of Punishment by
Fine, Penalty, or Imprisonment for
enforcing any Law of the Province
made in relation to any Matter
coming within any of the Classes
of subjects enumerated in this
Section.

16. Generally all matters of a merely
local or private nature in the Pro-

vince.

Education.

tion re

93. In and for each Province the Legis- Legislalature may exclusively make Laws in re- specting lation to Education, subject and according education. to the following Provisions :

1. Nothing in any such Law shall pre-
judicially affect any Right or Privi-
lege with respect to Denominational
Schools which any Class of Persons
have by Law in the Province at the
Union;
2. All the Powers, Privileges, and
Duties at the Union by Law con-
ferred and imposed in Upper Canada
on the Separate Schools and School
Trustees of the Queen's Roman
Catholic Subjects, shall be and the
same are hereby extended to the
Dissentient Schools of the Queen's
Protestant

Legislation respecting education.

Protestant and Roman Catholic
Subjects in Quebec ;

3. Where in any Province a System of
Separate or Dissentient Schools exists
by Law at the Union or is there-
after established by the Legislature
of the Province, an Appeal shall lie
to the Governor-General in Council
from any Act or Decision of any
Provincial Authority affecting any
Right or Privilege of the Protestant
or Roman Catholic Minority of the
Queen's Subjects in relation to Edu-

cation;

4. In case any such Provincial Law as from Time to Time seems to the Governor-General in Council requisite for the due Execution of the Provisions of this Section is not made, or in case any Decision of the Governor-General in Council on any Appeal under this Section is not duly executed by the proper Provincial Authority in that behalf, then and in every such case, and as far only as the circumstances of each case require, the Parliament of Canada may make remedial Laws for the due Execution of the Provisions of this Section, and of any Decision of the Governor-General in Council under this Section.

Uniformity

Uniformity of Laws in Ontario, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.

tion for uniform

in three Provinces.

94. Notwithstanding anything in this Legisla Act, the Parliament of Canada may make tim Provision for the Uniformity of all or any ity of laws of the Laws relative to Property and Civil Rights in Ontario, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, and of the Procedure of all or any of the Courts in those Three Provinces, and from and after the passing of any Act in that behalf, the Power of the Parliament of Canada to make Laws in relation to any matter comprised in any such Act shall, notwithstanding anything in this Act, be unrestricted; but any Act of the Parliament of Canada making Provision for such Uniformity shall not have effect in any Province unless and until it is adopted and enacted as Law by the Legislature thereof.

Agriculture and Immigration.

ers of

specting

95. In each Province the Legislature Concur may make Laws in relation to Agriculture rent pow in the Province, and to Immigration into legislathe Province; and it is hereby declared toting that the Parliament of Canada may from agricul Time to Time make Laws in relation to ture, &c. Agriculture in all or any of the Provinces, and to Immigration into all or any of the Provinces; and any Law of the Legisla

ture

Appointment of Judges.

Selection of Judges

ture of a Province, relative to Agriculture or to Immigration, shall have effect in and for the Province, as long and as far only as it is not repugnant to any Act of the Parliament of Canada.

VII. JUDICATURE.

96. The Governor-General shall appoint the Judges of the Superior, District and County Courts in each Province, except those of the Courts of Probate in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.

97. Until the laws relative to Property in Ontario and Civil Rights in Ontario, Nova Scotia &c. and New Brunswick, and the Procedure of the Courts in those Provinces, are made uniform, the Judges of the Courts of those Provinces appointed by the GovernorGeneral shall be selected from the respective Bars of those Provinces.

Selection of Judges

98. The Judges of the Courts of Quebec, in Quebec. shall be selected from the Bar of that Province.

Tenure of

office of

99. The Judges of the Superior Courts Judges of shall hold office during good behaviour Superior but shall be removable by the GovernorCourts. General on Address of the Senate and

Salaries,

&c., of Judges.

House of Commons.

100. The Salaries, Allowances and Pensions of the Judges of the Superior, Dis

trict

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