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THE SENATE. 
9, QUALIFICATIONS OF SENATORS. 
By section 23 of the B. N. A. Act, 1867, the qualifications 
required of a Senator are as follows :— 
Age. 1. He must be 30 years of age. 
Subject. 2. He must be either 
(¢) a natural born subject of the Queen, or 
(b) a naturalised subject. 
Naturalisation is one of the subjects specifically reserved 
to the Dominion Parliament, and therefore an alien can only 
be naturalised by force of a Dominion or of an Imperial Act 
of Parliament. The status of aliens naturalised before the 
Union by a Provincial Legislature is recognised, and such 
subjects may be Senators. 
3. His real and personal property must be of the value 
of 4000 dollars over and above his debts and liabilities. 
(@) Of this property a certain minimum amount must 
consist of freeholds of which he is seised for his own benefit. 
The lands referred to in the Act' are “lands or tenements 
held in free and common socage...or held in franc-alleu or in 
roture.” 
Property. 
(b) The minimum amount of freehold property is 
4000 dollars, and such amount is calculated “over and above 
all rents, dues, debts, charges, mortgages, and incumbrances 
due or payable out of, or charged in or affecting the same.” 
(¢c) It is not necessary that the freeholds should be in 
the particular Electoral District of the Province for which 
the Senator sits, except in the case of Quebec Senators who 
are non-resident in the Provinee of Quebec’ 
4. He must be resident in the Province for which he is 
appointed’. The Senators from Quebec are an exception to 
1 B, N. A. A. 8. 23, (31). 2 See below, 3B, N, A. A. 5 23 (5).