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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.

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106. Subject to the several Payments by Appropri this Act charged on the Consolidated Re-ation from venue Fund of Canada, the same shall be time. appropriated by the Parliament of Canada for the Public Service.

107. All Stocks, Cash, Bankers' Balances, Transfer of and Securities for Money belonging to each stocks, &c. 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.

108. The Public Works and Property of Transfer of each Province enumerated in the Third property in schedule Schedule to this Act, shall be the Property of Canada.

109. All Lands, Mines, Minerals, and Property Royalties belonging to the several Provinces in lands, mines, &c. 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 Provincial debts.

Canada to

be liable

for Pro

vincial

debts.

Debts of Ontario and Quebec.

Assets of
Ontario

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.

111. Canada shall be liable for the Debts and Liabilities of each Province existing at the Union.

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.

113. The Assets enumerated in the Fourth and Que Schedule to this Act, belonging at the Union to the Province of Canada, shall be the Property of Ontario and Quebec conjointly.

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Debt of
Nova
Scotia.

Debt of New Brunswick.

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.

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.

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116. In case the Public Debts of Nova Payment of interest Scotia and New Brunswick do not at the Union amount to Eight million and Seven Scotia and million Dollars respectively, they shall res- Brunspectively receive, by half-yearly Payments wick. 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.

perty.

117. The several Provinces shall retain Provincial all their respective Public Property not other- public prowise 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.

118. The following sums shall be paid Grants to yearly by Canada to the several Provinces Provinces. for the support of their Governments and

Legislatures:

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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

Further grant to New

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 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 CanBrunswick ada, for the Period of Ten Years from the Union, an additional Allowance of Sixtythree 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.

Form of

120. All Payments to be made under payments, 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 the Parliament of Canada otherwise directs, be made in such Form and Manner as may from

from Time to Time be ordered by the Governor General in Council.

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

tures, &c.

customs

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

laws.

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123. Where Customs Duties are, at the ExportaUnion, leviable on any Goods, Wares, or importaMerchandizes in any Two Provinces, those tion as beGoods, Wares, and Merchandizes may, from Provinces. 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.

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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 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.

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