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PREFACE.

work on Parliamentary Government in the Colonies has
Jfiscussed such matters at full length. In the chapter on
the Dominion Parliament I have availed myself of the very
valuable work of Mr Bourinot on Parliamentary Procedure in
Canada.

In the last session of the Canadian Parliament several
Acts were passed that modify some of the statements in the
iext. By the 51 Vic. c. 11 the Dominion Elections Act has been
mended as regards the nomination of candidates, the method
of voting, and the definition of corrupt practices; by the
51 Vic. c. 17, the organisation of the Department of Public
Printing has been modified; and by the 51 Vie. c. 43 appeals
criminal cases to the Judicial Committee of the Privy
Council have been forbidden.
The most important change introduced into the constitusion
 has been the formation of a Legislative Assembly for the
North West Territories. By chapter 50 of the Revised
Statutes of Canada the Council of the North West Terribories,
 as soon as its number reached twenty-one, was to give
way to a Legislative Assembly’. The new Assembly is to
consist of twenty-two elected members and three legal experts,
the former to be elected by such male British subjects, other
than unenfranchised Indians, as have been resident in the
Territories for twelve months, and in their electoral districts
for three months, preceding the election; the latter to be
aominated by the Governor-General in Council.
The legal experts have the same privileges as elected
members, except that they are not allowed to vote: on a
jissolution taking place they vacate their offices.
The Lieutenant-Governor is authorised to nominate four
members of the Assembly to act as an advisory council” on

See post, p. 36.