Further Grant to New Brunswick.

Form of

payments.

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 Grants 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.

119. New Brunswick shall receive by half-yearly Payments in advance from Canada, for a 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 the Interest at Five per Centum per Annum on such Deficiency shall be made from that Allowance of Sixty-three thousand Dollars.

120. All Payments to be made under I this Act, or in discharge of Liabilities created under any Act of the Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, respectively, and assumed by Canada shall, until

until the Parliament of Canada otherwise directs, be made in such Form and Manner as may from Time to Time be ordered by the Governor-General in Council.

manufactures, &c.

121. All Articles of the Growth, Pro- Canadian duce or Manufacture of any one of the Provinces shall, from and after the Union, be admitted free into each of the other Provinces.

customs

122. The Customs and Excise Laws of Continueach Province shall, subject to the Provi- ance of sions of this Act, continue in force until and excise altered by the Parliament of Canada.

laws.

importa

Provinces.

123. Where Custom Duties are at the ExportaUnion leviable on any Goods, Wares or tion and Merchandises in any Two Provinces, those tion as beGoods, Wares and Merchandises may, from tween two and after the Union, be imported from one of those Provinces into the other of them on Proof of Payment of the Customs Duty leviable thereon in the Province of Exportation, and on payment of such further amount (if any) of Customs Duty as is leviable thereon in the Province of Importation.

New

124. Nothing in this Act shall affect the Lumber Right of New Brunswick to levy the Lum- dues in ber Dues provided in Chapter Fifteen of Brunswick, Title

Exemption of public lands, &c.

Provincial consolidated re

venue fund.

As to Le

Council

Title Three of the Revised Statutes of New Brunswick, or in any Act amending that Act before or after the Union, and not increasing the Amount of such Dues; but the Lumber of any of the Provinces other than New Brunswick shall not be subject to such Dues.

125. No Lands or Property belonging to Canada or any Province shall be liable to Taxation.

126. Such Portions of the Duties and Revenues over which the respective Legislatures of Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick had before the Union Power of Appropriation as are by this Act reserved to the respective Governments or Legisla tures of the Provinces, and all. Duties and Revenues raised by them in accordance with the Special Powers conferred upon them by this Act, shall in each Province form One Consolidated Revenue Fund to be appropriated for the Public Service of the Province

IX.-MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.

General.

127. If any Person, being, at the pass

gislative ing of this Act, a Member of the Legisla tive Council of Canada, Nova Scotia or

lors of

New

New Brunswick, to whom a Place in the Provinces Senate is offered, does not within Thirty Senators. becoming Days thereafter, by Writing under his Hand, addressed to the Governor-General of the Province of Canada or to the Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia or New Brunswick (as the case may be), accept the same, he shall be deemed to have declined the same; and any Person who, being at the passing of this Act a Member of the Legislative Council of Nova Scotia or New Brunswick, accepts a Place in the Senate, shall thereby vacate his seat in such Legislative Council.

ce, &c.

128. Every Member of the Senate or Oath of House of Commons of Canada shall, before allegin taking his Seat therein, take and subscribe before the Governor-General or some Person authorized by him, and every Member of a Legislative Council or Legislative Assembly of any Province shall, before taking his Seat therein, take and subscribe before the Lieutenant-Governor of the Province, or some Person authorized by him, the Oath of Allegiance contained in the Fifth Schedule to this Act; and every Member of the Senate of Canada and every Member of the Legislative Council of Quebec shall also, before taking his Seat therein, take and subscribe before the Governor-General, or some Person authorized by him, the Declaration

Continuance of

claration of Qualification contained in the same Schedule.

129. Except as otherwise provided by this Act, all Laws in force in Canada, Nova Scotia, or New Brunswick at the Union, officers &c. and all Courts of Civil and Criminal Juris

existing laws,

courts,

Transfer of

officers to Canada.

diction, and all Legal Commissions, Powers and Authorities, and all Officers, Judicial, Administrative and Ministerial, existing therein at the Union, shall continue, in Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, respectively, as if the Union had not been made; subject nevertheless (except with respect to such as are enacted by or exist under Acts of the Parliament of Great Britain or of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland), to be repealed, abolished or altered by the Parliament of Canada or by the Legislature of the respective Province, according to the Authority of the Parliament or of that Legislature under this Act.

130. Until the Parliament of Canada otherwise provides, all Officers of the several Provinces having Duties to discharge in relation to Matters other than those coming within the Classes of Subjects by this Act assigned exclusively to the Legislatures of the Provinces, shall be Officers of Canada, and shall continue to discharge the Duties of their respective Offices under the same

Liabilities,