234 DIVISION OF LEGISLATIVE POWER. 
6. Railways and railway stocks, mortgages, and other 
debts due by railway companies. 
7. Military roads. 
8. Custom Houses, Post Offices, and all other public 
buildings, except such as the Government of Canada appro- 
priate for the use of the provincial Legislatures and Govern- 
ments. 
9. Property transferred by the Imperial government and 
known as Ordnance property. 
10.  Armouries, drill sheds, military clothing and muni- 
sions of war, and hands set apart for general public purposes, 
Debts of The Act also by sect. 102 imposed upon the Dominion 
bsiac the charge of the general public debts of the several provinces, 
and vested in the Dominion the general public revenues as 
then existing of the provinces. But this provision was made 
subject to certain exceptions contained in sect. 126, viz. 1) 
such portions of the pre-existing duties and revenues as were 
by the Act “reserved to the respective Legislatures of the 
provinces ;” and (2) such duties and revenues as might be 
“received by them in accordance with the special powers 
conferred on them by the Act.” As regards the first excep- 
tion the only duties and revenues reserved to the provinces 
are specified in section 109, which enacted that all lands, 
mines, minerals and royalties belonging to the several pro- 
vinces at the time of the Union were to remain vested in 
the provinces'; and it was provided that the several 
provinces should retain all their respective public property 
not otherwise disposed of by the Act, subject to the right of 
Canada to reserve any lands or public property required for 
fortifications or for the defence of the country? 
The right of the provinces to the above land includes 
the right to the banks and beds of rivers and streams in each 
province, and therefore it has been held® that the Dominion 
{ B. N. A. Act, s. 109. 2 Ib. s. 117. 
Regina v. Robertson, 6 Can. 8. C. BR. 52: 2 Cart. 65.