The Constitution of Canada

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Identifikator:: 1895543282

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-242408

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Munro, Joseph Edwin Crawford http://d-nb.info/gnd/1113111038

Title:: The Constitution of Canada

Place of publication:: Cambridge

Publisher:: Univ. Press

Year of publication:: 1889

Scope:: XXXVI, 356 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter V. The Provincial Assemblies

Collection:: Economics Books

QUALIFICATIONS OF ELECTED. 61 7 years in Quebec and British Columbia, and 6 years in New Brunswick. 2. (QUALIFICATIONS OF ELECTED. Each province exacts certain qualifications from every Elected. person who sits in the Assembly. Not only must a member fulfil fixed conditions before he takes his seat, but he is liable to lose it under certain circumstances. All the provinces agree in requiring a member of the Assembly to be (1) a British subject by birth or naturalisation, (2) a male of the age of 21 years. Some of the provinces impose additional qualifications. Manitoba and British Columbia require members to be Voter. voters in the province, whilst Nova Scotia requires a member either to be a voter or to possess a freehold or equitable estate of the clear yearly value of $8. British Columbia requires a member to have been a resident within the province for one year preceding his election. New Brunswick requires a member to be legally seised Property. or possessed for his own use of freehold or leasehold lands in the Province of the value of $1200 over and above all incumbrances. In Prince Edwards Island the property qualification is fixed at £50, and an oath that he is possessed of such property must be taken by every candidate. The property qualification in Quebec was abolished by the 45 Vie. c. 7. In the North West Territories every elector is qualified bo be elected to the Council. The following persons are as a rule disqualified in all the provinces from sitting in the Legislative Assembly. 1 The following statutes may be referred to on the above qualifications: 0. R. 8.1887, ¢. 9; Q. 38 Vic. ¢. 7, 8. 124; N. 8. Rev. Stat. 1884, e. 3, 8. 3; N. B. 45 Vic. ¢. 21; Man. Consol. Stat. c. 8, 8. 113; B. C. Consol. Stat. 1877, ¢c. 66,8. 5: P. E. I. 19 Vic, e. 21, 8. 12; N. W. T., RB. S. C., 1886, ¢. 50, s. 21.

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