INDIAN AFFAIRS. 218 Majesty for a period of not less than eight days and not exceeding 16 days’. The Active Militia may be called out as follows: — Calling I. By Her Majesty in the case of war, invasion, or Militia. insurrection. 2. By the Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba, if a notable disturbance of the peace or other emergency occurs in the North-West Territories or Keewatin. 3. The officer commanding any military district or division upon any sudden emergency of invasion or in- surrection or imminent danger of either may call out the whole of the Militia under his command? 4. The officer in any district may call out the Active Militia under his command in aid of the civil power when a riot, disturbance of the peace or other emergency requiring such service occurs or is in the opinion of the civil authori- ties likely to occur®. 5. The Active Militia may be called out also by order in Council to serve as guards of honour, as escorts, or as guards and sentries at the opening or closing of Parliament, to attend the Governor-General or any member of the Royal Family in Canada, or to guard armouries. 14. DEPARTMENT OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. By the Act constituting a Department of Indian Affairs® the Minister of the Interior was made Superintendent of Indian Affairs, but a subsequent Act® repealed that provision, and enacted that the Superintendent of Indian Affairs should be either the Minister of the Interior or the head of some other department appointed for that purpose by Oider in Council. The President of the Council is now (1887) the Superintendent. - Th. 8, 59. 2 Ib. 8. 78. 3 Ib. s. 34. 4 438 Vie. c. 28. 3 46 Vie. ¢. 6.