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 IV. Provincial Legislatures

Collection:: Economics Books

ar 1] PROVINCIAL LEGISLATURES. Election « His Honour the Lieutenant-Governor does not see fit to gE, declare the causes of his summoning the present Provincial Legislature until a Speaker of the Legislative Assembly shall have been chosen according to law, but that to-morrow at the hour of three o'clock His Honour will declare the causes of his calling the present Legislature.” The members of the Assembly returned to their own Chamber and a member addressing the Clerk proposed a member as Speaker. The question was pub by the Clerk, and after the Speaker was elected and had been congratulated the mace was placed on the table and the House adjourned. On the following day the members again assembled, and on receipt of a message from the Lieutenant-Governor they, preceded by the Speaker, proceeded to the Council Chamber. Te Rt iy The Speaker then spoke as follows: i Lugs “May it please Your Honour, Council. «The Legislative Assembly have elected me as their Speaker, though I am but little able to fulfil the important Juties thus assigned to me. «If in the performance of these duties I should at any sime fall into error I pray that the fault may be imputed to me and nob to the Assembly whose servant I am and who through me, the better to enable them to discharge their duty to their Queen and Country, humbly claim all their undoubted rights and privileges, especially that they may have freedom of speech in their debates, access to Your Honour’s person at a1] seasonable times and that their proceedings may receive 2om Your Honour the most favourable interpretation.” Then the Honourable the Speaker of the Legislative Council said : “Mr Speaker, «I am commanded by His Honour the Lieutenant-Go- sernor to declare to you that he freely confides in the duty and attachment of the Assembly to Her Majesty's person and government, not doubting that their proceedings will be con-

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