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NATURAL RESOURCES OF QUEBEC 
the exclusive authority of the provinces, matters of purely local and prov- 
incial concern, chief among which may be mentioned the imposition of 
direct taxes. administration of justice. maintenance of gaols, hospitals, 
asylums and similar institutions, the control of natural resources vested 
in the province, education, property and civil rights and municipal insti- 
tutions. 
In Quebec as in the other provinces, the Lieutenant-Governor, ap- 
pointed by the Dominion Government, is the representative of the Crown. 
In addition to him the legislature consists of the Legislative Council of 
twentv-four members appointed for life bv the Lieutenant-Governor in 
Parliament Buildings at Quebec 
Council, and the Legislative Assembly of eighty-five members elected 
by popular vote. The Executive or Cabinet Council in Quebec is composed 
of the Premier, Provincial Secretary, Provincial Treasurer, Minister of 
Public Works and Labour, Minister of Agriculture, Minister of Coloniz- 
ation, Mines and Fisheries, Minister of Lands and Forests, Minister of 
Roads, Minister of Municipal Affairs, and one or more ministers without 
portfolio. French civil law is the basis of civil law in the province. In 
the House of Commons of Canada Quebec is represented by sixty-five 
members, and in the Senate by twenty-four senators. 
Local Self-Government *—Municipal government in the province 
is administered under the Municipal Code, the latest edition of which 
TT ¥ Revised by the Department of Municipal Affairs, Quebec.