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APPENDIX. 
51. On the completion of the census in the year One 
thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, and of each subsequent 
decennial census, the representation of the four Provinces shall be 
re-adjusted by such authority, in such manner, and for such time, 
as the Parliament of Canada from time to time provides, subject 
and according to the following rules: — 
(1) Quebec shall have the fixed number of Sixty-five 
members : 
There shall be assigned to each of the other Provinces 
such a number of Members as will bear the same 
proportion to the number of its population (ascertained 
at such census) as the number sixty-five bears to the 
number of the population of Quebec (so ascertained): 
In the computation of the number of Members for a 
Province a fractional part not exceeding one-half of the 
whole number requisite for entitling the Province to a 
Member shall be disregarded; but a fractional part 
exceeding one-half of that number shall be equivalent to 
the whole number : 
On any such re-adjustment the number of Members for a 
Province shall not be reduced unless the proportion 
which the number of the population of the Province bore 
to the number of the aggregate population of Canada at 
the then last preceding re-adjustment of the number of 
Members for the Province is ascertained at the then 
latest census to be diminished by one-twentieth part or 
upwards : 
Such re-adjustment shall not take effect until the 
termination of the then existing Parliament. 
(4) 
Increaseof ~~ 52. The number of Members of the House of Commons may 
Shae 3 ! be from time to time increased by the Parliament of Canada, 
Jommons. provided the proportionate representation of the Provinces 
prescribed by this Act is not thereby disturbed. 
Money Votes ; Royal Assent. 
Appro- 
priation 
and Tax 
Bills, 
53. Bills for appropriating any part of the Public Revenue, 
or for imposing any tax or impost, shall originate in the House of 
Commons.