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of any moneys appropriated by Parliament for the Territories
as the Commissioner in Council is authorized to expend.
(p) Generally, all matters of a merely local or private
nature in the Territories!
The Commissioner in Council can also if authorized pass
Ordinances as to education, subject to the same restrictions
as in the case of the Yukon, and any Ordinance whatever
may be disallowed by the Governor-General in Council within
two years.
The laws of Canada, unless otherwise specified, apply to
the North-Western Territories, but power is given to the
Governor-General in Council in the case of legislation as to
liquor and to arms and ammunition and judicial matters.
Further, the Governor-General in Council may apply to the
Territories Acts which would not otherwise be in force. It
may be added that the Canadian Parliament could confer
powers larger than those of the provinces on the Legislatures
of the Yukon and the Territories, if it thought fit, but naturally
that step is out of the question.
The Yukon is a part of the old North-Western Territories
given a separate constitution and with a separate history
as a specifically mining territory. In the Yukon Territory
there was from 1898 (61 Vict. ¢. 6, as amended by 62 & 63
Vict. ¢. 11) until 1909 a Council of the Yukon Territory
consisting of not more than eleven members, five of whom
were elective and the remainder appointed by the Governor-
General of Canada under his Privy Seal. An Act of 1908
(c. 76) altered the position, and in 1909 the first purely
elective council of ten members was chosen. The Council
lasts for three years subject to being dissolved by the Com-
missioner. Annual sessions are required.2
The Executive Government is conducted by a Commissioner
who is subject to the directions of the Governor-General in
Council, and responsible government does not yet exist. But
the Commissioner is expected to adapt his policy to the desires
of the Legislature, especially since it is now purely elective.
! So far the Commissioner’s powers have not been exercised.
See Canadian Annual Review, 1907, pp. 614-16; 1909, pp. 594, 595.
