Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 1)

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Press

Year of publication:: 1912-

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Identifikator:: 1896934455

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-236504

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 1

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

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Title:: Part III. The Parliaments of the Dominions

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CHAP. VI] THE LOWER HOUSES 477 a person qualified as above on certain conditions. Qualification is also given for assessment in respect of income to the amount of $250, or the earning of at least $250 from some profession or trade, or from some investment, or the ownership of real property, boats, nets, fishing-gear and tackle, or of boats, nets, fishing-gear and tackle, of the actual value of $150. The House consists of thirty-eight members returned by eighteen districts, of which two have three members, and the rest two each. In the case of the Ontario House of 106 members, one for each seat, under Acts 1908, cc. 2 and 3, and the New Brunswick House of forty-six members elected for sixteen districts (five returning four members, four three, the rest two), under c. 3 of the Revised Statutes, 1903, manhood suffrage applies, and the same is the case with British Columbia (forty-two members), Manitoba (forty-one mem- bers), Alberta (at first twenty-five members—now forty-one members for thirty-nine divisions under Act 1909, c. 2), and Saskatchewan (at first twenty-five, now forty-one members). In British Columbia one district has five, one four, and one two members. Under the Act 1908, ¢. 1, in the case of Prince Edward Island the Assembly is divided into two groups, fifteen of whom are elected by electors with a property qualification of $325, while the others are elected on a low and complicated franchise approximating to manhood suffrage! the property owner thus having two votes. Residence of a year in the province and three months in the electoral district is usually required. There are certain disqualifications on North American Indians for the franchise.2 They are entitled to vote freely in Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Quebec ; they cannot vote in New Brunswick or in Alberta and Saskatchewan. In Manitoba Indians or persons of Indian blood receiving annuity or treaty money from the Crown, or who have ' See Act 1908, ec. 1, sched. 3. Ownership or oceupation of property worth 100 dollars or six dollars a year, payment in Charlottetown and Summerside of one dollar poll-tax, or payment of one dollar under the Public Road Act, 1907, are qualifications. * Parl. Pap., Cd. 427. For Alberta see the Act 1909, ec. 3, s. 1; for Saskatchewan the Electoral Act of 1908, c. 2,s. 11. The franchise is of course dealt with in the Revised Statutes of each province.

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