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 XI. The Dominion Parliament

Collection:: Economics Books

PAYMENT OF MEMBERS. 119 illness, provided he be within 10 miles of the place of meeting, are reckoned days of attendance. In some very exceptional cases the House has resolved that an absent member should receive the sum he would have been en- titled to had he not been so absent. The legality of such a proceeding is very doubtful’. When a person is member for at least 30 days of a ig session, 8 dollars a day is deducted from the sessional allow- ni, ance for each day before he was elected or after he ceased to be a member. An allowance of 10 cents per mile is given for travelling Travelling expenses, both on going and on returning, between the place Rpm of residence of the member and the place where the session is held, according to the nearest mail route, the distance being determined and certified by the Speaker of the Senate or of the House of Commons as the case may be. A member may draw his sessional allowance from time to How paid. time to the extent of 7 dollars a day, the balance being payable at the end of the session on the member making a declaration as to the number of days he has attended and the number of miles travelled. The Speakers of the Senate and of the House of Commons Salary of receive each a salary of 4000 dollars per annum 2 pensar 7. ADJOURNMENT. A motion to adjourn is always in order and always takes precedence of the question before the House. In the Commons no amendment can be moved to such motion, and if the motion be lost no second motion to the same effect can be made until after some intermediate proceeding shall have been had® A wide latitude of debate is allowed on a motion for 1 See Burinot, p. 148. 2 R. C. 8.c. 11, 8. 24, 3 Com, S. 0. 30.

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