PROVINCIAL LEGISLATURES. 
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Councils or the Legislative or General Assemblies of the 
provinces respectively. 
This clause was omitted in the revised instructions of 
L878 in deference to the contention of the Dominion that the 
Lieutenant-Governor of the provinces other than those ex- 
pressly referred to in the Union Act had implied powers for 
the above purposes. 
“Any powers,” said Mr Blake, the Dominion Minister of mim 
Justice, “ which may be thought necessary should have been of the 
conferred upon the Lieutenant-Governor by the British North Dominion 
America Act, and it appears to me they must be taken to 
be expressly or impliedly so conferred. The provision giving 
these powers to the Lieutenant-Governor by the Governor- 
General’s Commission appears somewhat objectionable, and it 
might perhaps be advisable to leave these matters to be dealt 
with by those officers under the B. N. A. Act, the 82nd section 
of which in terms confers on the Lieutenant-Governor of the 
new provinces of Ontario and Quebec the power in the 
Queen’s name to summon the local bodies, a power which 
no doubt was assumed to be continued to the Governors of 
the other provinces.” 
The provincial legislatures are summoned by the Lieu- Form of 
tenant-Governor, in some provinces, as for instance in British iii 
Columbia in his own name, and in other provinces in the 
name of the Queen. The following form is the one in use 
in Quebec: 
Canada 
Province of Quebec 
LS. 
Victoria by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of 
Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, 
&c. &e. 
To our beloved and faithful the Legislature Councillors of 
the Province of Quebec and the Members elected to serve in 
1 Can. Sess. Paper, 1877, No. 13, p. 7. 
L. BR. Masson