QUALIFICATIONS OF ELECTED. 61 
7 years in Quebec and British Columbia, and 6 years in New 
Brunswick. 
2. (QUALIFICATIONS OF ELECTED. 
Each province exacts certain qualifications from every Elected. 
person who sits in the Assembly. Not only must a member 
fulfil fixed conditions before he takes his seat, but he is 
liable to lose it under certain circumstances. All the 
provinces agree in requiring a member of the Assembly 
to be 
(1) a British subject by birth or naturalisation, 
(2) a male of the age of 21 years. 
Some of the provinces impose additional qualifications. 
Manitoba and British Columbia require members to be Voter. 
voters in the province, whilst Nova Scotia requires a member 
either to be a voter or to possess a freehold or equitable 
estate of the clear yearly value of $8. British Columbia 
requires a member to have been a resident within the 
province for one year preceding his election. 
New Brunswick requires a member to be legally seised Property. 
or possessed for his own use of freehold or leasehold lands 
in the Province of the value of $1200 over and above all 
incumbrances. 
In Prince Edwards Island the property qualification is 
fixed at £50, and an oath that he is possessed of such property 
must be taken by every candidate. 
The property qualification in Quebec was abolished by 
the 45 Vie. c. 7. 
In the North West Territories every elector is qualified 
bo be elected to the Council. 
The following persons are as a rule disqualified in all the 
provinces from sitting in the Legislative Assembly. 
1 The following statutes may be referred to on the above qualifications: 
0. R. 8.1887, ¢. 9; Q. 38 Vic. ¢. 7, 8. 124; N. 8. Rev. Stat. 1884, e. 3, 8. 3; 
N. B. 45 Vic. ¢. 21; Man. Consol. Stat. c. 8, 8. 113; B. C. Consol. Stat. 1877, 
¢c. 66,8. 5: P. E. I. 19 Vic, e. 21, 8. 12; N. W. T., RB. S. C., 1886, ¢. 50, s. 21.