478 PARLIAMENTS OF THE DOMINIONS [PART III
received such money within three years before, are not entitled
to be registered as voters. In British Columbia no Indian
shall have his name placed on the list of voters. In Ontario
an enfranchised Indian can vote, and on certain conditions
the franchise is given to unenfranchised Indians, but they
are normally excluded from the vote.
The other disqualifications are practically all on the same
lines. The various Provincial Acts disqualify Judges of the
Supreme Court and of the County Courts, persons dis-
qualified on the ground of corrupt practices, lunatics, idiots,
and persons who are confined in asylums or prisons, and
paupers or persons in receipt of charitable relief.
In addition to these disqualifications there are minor
disqualifications in various provinces. In Manitoba any
person who is not a British subject by birth, and who has
not resided in some portion of Canada for at least seven years
preceding the date of registration of electors is only entitled
to the franchise if he can read a selected portion or portions
of the Manitoba Act in English, French, German, Icelandic,
or any Scandinavian language, but there is a saving of rights
for persons who had at an earlier date secured their entry
on the registration rolls, Chinese are excluded from the
franchise by Act 1908, c. 2, of Saskatchewan, and they
are excluded along with the Japanese in British Columbia
under the Act 1899, ¢. 25 and ability to read is required
by the Act 4 Edw. VIL. ¢. 17.2 Plural voting is not allowed
save to a limited extent in Prince Edward Island.
In Newfoundland the franchise is provided for under
chapter 3 of the Revised Statutes, 1892.3 The provisions
in question are as follows :—
Every male British subject of the full age of twenty-one
years, who for two years preceding the day of election has
been resident in this Colony, and is of sound understanding,
shall be competent to vote for the election of members of
Cf. Cunningham v. Tomey Homma, [1903] A. C. 151.
? Cf. Provincial Legislation, 1904-6, p. 29.
* The residential qualification is imposed by royal instructions of May 4,
1855; under 5 & 6 Vict. ¢. 120 (made perpetual as to this point by 10 & 11
Vict. c. 44),
