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charges, the salaries of the Lieutenant-Governor and the 
Judges, the charges in respect of customs, post-office, protection 
of fisheries, militia, lighthouses, shipwrecked crews, quarantine, 
marine hospitals, the geological survey, and the penitentiary. 
(5) That the Dominion Government should assume the 
railway then being built. 
7. DisTrioT oF KEEWATIN, 
In 1876 an act was passed by the Dominion Parliament 
erecting into a separate government under the name of the 
District of Keewatin the portion of the North West Terri- 
tories lying to the north of Manitoba. The district contains 
about 895,000 acres, and is principally occupied by Icelandic 
colonists. 
The Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba is ex officio Lieu- Adminis. 
benant-Governor of Keewatin, He is assisted in the adminis- aton- 
tration of the district by a council of not more than ten and 
not less than five members appointed by the Governor- 
General in Council. The Lieutenant-Governor in Council 
has such legislative powers as are conferred by the Governor- 
General in Council, and the Governor-General in Council 
has the balance of legislative power, but no law can be passed 
either by the Governor-General in Council or by the Lieu- 
tenant-Governor in Council which 
(a) is inconsistent with any Dominion Act applying to 
the District, 
(b) imposes any tax or any duty of customs or excise or 
any penalty exceeding 100 dollars, ; 
(c) alters or repeals the punishment provided in any Act 
in force in the District, or 
(d) appropriates any public money, lands or property of 
Canada without the authority of Parliament. 
Copies of all laws passed by the Lieutenant-Governor in 
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