The Constitution of Canada

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Identifikator:: 1895543282

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-242408

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Munro, Joseph Edwin Crawford http://d-nb.info/gnd/1113111038

Title:: The Constitution of Canada

Place of publication:: Cambridge

Publisher:: Univ. Press

Year of publication:: 1889

Scope:: XXXVI, 356 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter II. Constitutional history of the provinces

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28 CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY OF THE PROVINCES. pany or individual within the same shall be respected and placed under the protection of courts of competent juris- diction.” (2) “That the claims of the Indian tribes to compensation for land required for purposes of the settlement will be con- sidered and settled in conformity with the equitable prin- ciples which have uniformly governed the British Crown in its dealings with the aborigines.” The second address relating to Rupert's Land dealt mainly with the rights reserved to the Hudson’s Bay Company, but stipulated that claims of Indians to compensation for land required for purposes of settlement should be disposed of by the Canadian Government in communication with the Im- perial Government. From the date of the admission the Canadian Parliament over the acquired legislative power over the newly admitted territories. a. By the Order in Council it was declared as regards the North West Territory that “the Parliament of Canada should from the day aforesaid have full power and authority to legis- late for the future welfare and good government of the said territory,” and such Order in Council has by the British North American Act, 1867, the force of an Act of Parliament. As regards Rupert's Land the Order in Council was silent as to legislative power, but by the Rupert's Land Act, 1868, it was enacted as regards all territories belonging to the Hudsons Bay Company that «it shall be lawful for the Parliament of Canada from the date aforesaid (i.e. of admission) to make ordain and establish within the land and territory so admitted as aforesaid all such laws institutions and ordinances and to constitute such courts and officers as may be necessary for the peace order and good government of Her Majesty's subjects and others therein.” Soin Previous to the surrender of the North West Territories vernment an Act was passed by the Dominion Parliament providing 1 381 & 82 Vie. (i) ¢. 105, 5. 5.

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