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NATURAL RESOURCES OF QUEBEC

the exclusive authority of the provinces, matters of purely local and provincial
 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 institutions.

In Quebec as in the other provinces, the Lieutenant-Governor, appointed
 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 Colonization,
 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.