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APPENDIX. 
Commissions, Powers, and Authorities, and all Officers, Judicial, 
Administrative, and Ministerial, existing therein at the Union, 
shall continue in Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Bruns- 
wick respectively, as if the Union had not been made; subject 
aevertheless (except with respect to such as are enacted by or 
exist under Acts of the Parliament of Great Britain or of the 
Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,) 
to be repealed, abolished, or altered by the Parliament of Canada, 
or by the Legislature of the respective Provinces, according to the 
authority of the Parliament or of that Legislature under this 
Act. 
Transfer 130. Until the Parliament of Canada otherwise provides, 
2 Jus all Officers of the several Provinces having duties to discharge in 
relation to matters other than those coming within the classes of 
subjects by this Act assigned exclusively to the Legislatures 
of the Provinces shall be Officers of Canada, and shall continue to 
discharge the duties of their respective offices under the same 
liabilities, responsibilities. and penalties as if the Union had not 
heen made. 
Appoint- 
ment of 
new 
Officers. 
Treaty 
sbliga- 
Hons. 
131. Until the Parliament of Canada otherwise provides, 
the Governor-General in Council may from time to time appoint 
such Officers as the Governor-General in Council deems necessary 
or proper for the effectual execution of this Act. 
132. The Parliament and Government of Canada shall have 
all powers necessary or proper for performing the obligations of 
Canada or of any Province thereof, as part of the British Empire, 
towards Foreign Countries, arising under Treaties between the 
Empire and such Foreign Countries. 
Use of 133. Either the English or French language may be used by 
Anglish any person in the debates of the Houses of the Parliament of 
French Canada and of the Houses of the Legislature of Quebec; and 
languages. oth those Languages shall be used in the respective Records and 
Journals of those Houses; and either of those Languages may be 
used by any person or in any pleading or process in or issuing 
from any Court of Canada established under this Act, and in or 
from all or any of the Courts of Quebec. 
The Acts of the Parliament of Canada and of the Legislature 
of Quebec shall be printed and published in both those Lan- 
guages.