Statutes of the Province of Quebec

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A. Coté and George Thomas Cary, 1867

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Page xx - 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.
Page xxvi - The Parliament and Government of Canada shall have all powers necessary or proper for performing the obligations of Canada or of any province thereof as part of the British Empire towards foreign countries arising under treaties between the Empire and such foreign countries.
Page xxvi - ... 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acts of the parliament of Great Britain or of the parliament of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland), to be repealed, abolished, or altered by the parliament of Canada, or by the legislature of the respective province, according to the authority of the parliament or of that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...
Page xiii - Where a bill passed by the Houses of the Parliament is presented to the Governor General for the Queen's assent, he shall declare, according to his discretion, but subject to the provisions of this Act and to Her Majesty's instructions, either that he assents thereto in the Queen's name, or that he withholds the Queen's assent, or that he reserves the bill for the signification of the Queen's pleasure.
Page viii - The privileges, immunities, and powers to be held, enjoyed, and exercised by the Senate and by the House of Commons, and by the Members thereof...
Page xxi - 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...
Page vi - The Executive Government and Authority of and over Canada is hereby declared to continue and be vested in the Queen.
Page 68 - No person holding stock in any such company as executor, administrator, guardian or trustee, and no person holding such stock as collateral security, shall be personally subject to any liability as stockholder of such company...
Page xviii - Assemblies of Ontario and Quebec, that is to say: the provisions relating to the election of a speaker originally and on vacancies, the duties of the speaker, the absence of the speaker, the quorum and the mode of voting as if those provisions were here re-enacted and made applicable in terms to each such Legislative Assembly.
Page xxviii - Canada, and the several matters and things therein proclaimed shall be and continue of like force and effect as if the Union had not been made.

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