CHAPTER XIV. 
THE METHOD OF LEGISLATION. 
THE method of legislation is regulated by (1) statutes, How regu. 
(2) standing orders and rules adopted by Parliament, and fated. 
(3) customs. 
Some provisions affecting the procedure of Parliament Statute, 
are to be found in the British North America Act 1867. 
The 54th section, for instance, enacts, that it is not lawful for 
the House of Commons to pass any vote, resolution, address, 
or bill for the appropriation of any part of the public revenue 
or any tax, to any purpose that has not been recommended 
to that House by message of the Governor-General, and the 
133rd section requires all acts of the Parliament of Canada 
bo be printed in both French and English. 
With the above exceptions the procedure in either House Standing 
is mainly governed by rules based on the practice of the tl 
English Parliament. In the early legislative councils of Sossin. 
Upper and of Lower Canada the practice of the House of 
Lords was adopted’; but when legislative assemblies were 
summoned they resolved to follow as far as circumstances 
would permit the rules, orders and usages of the English 
House of Commons®. When the Dominion Parliament met 
in 1867, the House of Commons appointed a Committee to 
frame rules for governing the procedure in that House, and 
! Burinot, p. 212. “2 Ih, p. 212. Christie’s Low. Can. 130-139,