CHAPTER XIII 
Tar SENATE. 
1. NUMBER. 
N. W.T 
THE number of senators by the B. N. A. Act, 1867, s. 22, 
was limited to 72, 24 being assigned to Ontario, 24 to 
Quebec, 12 to Nova Scotia and 12 to New Brunswick. On 
the admission of British Columbia the Order in Council of 
the 16th May, 1871, assigned three senators to the province 
and thus increased the number to 75. When Prince 
Edward’s Island was admitted in 1878, no addition was made 
to the Senate, but in accordance with section 147 of the 
B. N. A. Act, 1867, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick were 
cach deprived of two senators, and the four places thus 
obtained were given to the newly admitted province. Mani- 
toba by the 83 Vic. c. 3, s. 3, had three senators assigned to 
it under the powers conferred on the Dominion Parliament 
by the Imperial Act 34 and 85 Vic. c. 28, thus bringing the 
number up to 78. Any doubt as to the validity of the 
addition of senators by the last mentioned act was set at rest 
by the Imperial Act 49 and 50 Vie. c. 85, which confers on 
the Dominion Parliament full power to make provision for 
the representation in the Senate of any new province or of 
any territory. 
In 1887 a Dominion Act' provided that the North- 
West Territories were to be represented by two senators 
possessing the same qualification as other senators. 
1 50 gnd 51 Vie. ¢, 3.