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An Ordinance of the North West Territories ex- Acts disempting
 certain property from seizure and sale. allowed.
An Act of Manitoba respecting escheats and forfeitures
 and estates of intestates.
1886 An Act of British Columbia to prevent the immigration
 of Chinese.
An Act of British Columbia to amend the Land
Act 1884,
An Act of British Columbia to amend the Sumas
Dyking Act 1878.
Two Acts of Manitoba to incorporate certain Railway
 Companies.
1887 A Manitoba Act respecting the Lieutenant-Governor
and his Deputies.
A Manitoba Act to incorporate the Rock Lake,
Louis Valley and Brandon Railway Company.
A Nova Scotia Act concerning the collection of
freight and wharfage and warehouse charges.
In the majority of cases in which an Act has been Reasons.
disallowed it has been on the ground that the Act in
question was clearly beyond the competency of the provincial
Legislature. Where there is a reasonable doubt as to the
power of the Legislature to pass the Act, it is usually allowed
to come into operation, and the persons affected thereby are
left to pursue their remedy in the Courts.
The British Columbia, Manitoba, and Nova Scotia Rail- Railway
way Acts have been disallowed on another ground, viz., that
they were contrary to the railway policy of the Dominion. By
a clause of the contract between the Government of Canada
and the Canadian Pacific Railway Company it is provided :—
“That for twenty years from the date hereof, no line of
railway shall be authorized by the Dominion Parliament to
be constructed south of the Canadian Pacific Railway from
any point at or near the Canadian Pacific Railway, except
such line as shall run south-west or to the westward of south-