HIS POWERS. 
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subject to the provisions of any Act regulating the Civil 
Service in the Province, appoints all officers necessary for 
carrying on the work of administration. 
Many other important powers connected with provincial 
administration have been conferred on the Lieutenant- 
Governors by the statutes of the respective provinces. 
A Lieutenant-Governor holds office as a rule for a period Term of 
of five years? but he may be removed at any time by the ofee. 
Governor-General, the fact of such removal being communi- 
“ated to the Senate and to the House of Commons. In 
*xercising his power of removal the Governor-General is 
required to got by the advice of his Ministers? 
B. N. A. Act, 1867, s. 59. 
2 See post, chap. xv. 
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