Money Votes, the Assent to Bills, the Disal- money lowance of Acts, and the Signification of votes, &c. Pleasure on Bills reserved,-shall extend and apply to the Legislatures of the several Provinces as if those Provisions were here reenacted and made applicable in Terms to the respective Provinces and the Legislatures thereof, with the Substitution of the Lieutenant Governor of the Province for the Governor General, of the Governor General for the Queen and for a Secretary of State, of One Year for Two Years, and of the Province for Canada. VI.-DISTRIBUTION OF LEGISLATIVE POWERS. Powers of the Parliament. tive Au ment of 91. It shall be lawful for the Queen, by Legisla and with the Advice and Consent of the thority of Senate and House of Commons, to make Laws Parlia for the Peace, Order, and Good Government Canadag of Canada, in relation to all Matters not coming within the Classes of Subjects by this Act assigned exclusively to the Legislatures of the Provinces; and for greater Certainty, but not so as to restrict the Generality of the foregoing Terms of this Section, it is hereby declared that (notwithstanding anything in this Act) the exclusive Legislative Authority of the Parliament of Canada extends to all Matters coming within the Classes of Subjects next hereinafter enemurated; that is to say: 1. The Public Debt and Property. 2. The Regulation of Trade and Com merce. 3. The Raising of Money by any Mode or System of Taxation. 4. The borrowing of Money on the Public Credit. 5. Postal Service. 6. The Census and Statistics. 7. Militia, Military and Naval Service, and Defence. 8. The fixing of and providing for the Salaries and Allowances of Civil and other Officers of the Government of Canada. 9. Beacons, Buoys, Lighthouses, and Sable Island. 10. Navigation and Shipping. 11. Quarantine, and the Establishment and Maintenance of Marine Hospitals. 12. Sea Coast and Inland Fisheries. 13. Ferries between a Province and any British or Foreign Country or between Two Provinces. 14. Currency and Coinage. 15. Banking, Incorporation of Banks, and the Issue of Paper Money. 16. Savings Banks. 17. Weights and Measures. 18. Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes. 19. Interest. 20. Legal Tender. 21. Bankruptcy and Insolvency. 22. Patents of Invention and Discovery. 23. Copyrights. 24. Indians, and Lands reserved for the Indians. 25. Naturalization and Alliens. 26. Marriage and Divorce. 27. The Criminal Law, except the Consti- 28. The Establishment, Maintenance, and And any Matter coming within any of the Exclusive Powers of Provincial Legislatures. exclusive 92. In each Province the Legislature may Subjects of exclusively make Laws in relation to Matters Provincial coming within the Classes of Subjects next Legisla hereinafter enumerated; that is to say, 1. The Amendment from Time to Time, tion. except as regards the Office of Lieutenant Governor. 2. Direct Taxation within the Provincein order to the raising of a Revenue for Provincial Purposes.. 3. The borrowing of Money on the sole Credit of the Province. 4. The Establishment and Tenure of Provincial Offices and the Appointment and Payment of Provincial Of ficers. 5. The Management and Sale of the Public Lands belonging to the Province, and of the Timber and Wood thereon. 6. The Establishment, Maintenance, and Management of Public and Reformatory Prisons in and for the Province. 7. The Establishment, Maintenance, and Management of Hospitals, Asylums, Charities, and Eleemosynary Institutions in and for the Province, other than Marine Hospitals. 8. Municipal Institutions in the Province. 9. Shop, Saloon, Tavern, Auctioneer, and other Licences in order to the raising of a Revenue for Provincial, Local, or Municipal Purposes. 10. Local Works and Undertakings, other than such as are of the following Classes, exclusive a. Lines of Steam or other Ships, Rail- Subjects of ways, Canals, Telegraphs, and other Provincial Works and Undertakings connecting Legislathe 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 Provinces. 11. The Incorporation of Companies with Provincial Objects. 12. The Solemnization of Marriage in the Province. 13. Property and Civil Rights in the Province. tion. 14. The Administration of Justice in the Province, including the Constitution, Maintenance, and Organization of Provincial Courts, both of Civil and of Criminal Jurisdiction, 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 com |