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 II. Constitutional history of the provinces

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34 CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY OF THE PROVINCES. Condi- tions of the Union. sembly in order to give the people an opportunity of deciding the question. Delegates were appointed to meet the Do- minion Government and certain terms and conditions were agreed to. The Assembly was dissolved but the new House passed a resolution to the effect that the terms and con- ditions proposed did not secure to the Island a sum sufficient bo defray the requirements of its local government. A com- promise was ultimately arrived at, and the House unanimously resolved to present an address to Her Majesty to unite the ‘sland with the Dominion. The necessary Order in Council was issued on the 26th of June 1873, and the Island was declared to be a province of the Dominion from the 1st day of July of the same year. The principal terms and conditions were :— (1) That the Island not having incurred a debt equal to 50 dollars a head of its population, i.e. of 4,701,050 dollars, should receive from the Dominion interest at 5 per cent. per annum on the difference between the actual amount of its indebtedness and the above amount. (2) That as the Government of the Island held no lands from the Crown and therefore enjoyed no revenue from that source for the construction and maintenance of public works, the Dominion Government should pay by yearly instalments to the Government of the Island 45,000 dollars yearly less 5 per cent. on any sum not exceeding 800,000 dollars which the Dominion might advance to the Island for the purchase of land held by large proprietors. (3) That in consideration of the transfer to Canada of the powers of taxation mentioned in the BN.A. Act, 1867, the Dominion was to pay the Government of the Island 30,000 dollars and an annual grant equal to 80 cents per head of its population as shewn by the census of 1871, such grant bo increase as the population increased until it reached 400,000. (4) That the Dominion should assume the following 1 See Appendix,

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