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upon any sum not exceeding 800,000 dollars which the Dominion
Government may advance to the Prince Edward Island Govern-
ment for the purchase of lands now held by large proprietors.
6. That in consideration of the transfer to the Parliament of
Canada of the powers of taxation the following sums shall be paid
yearly by Canada to Prince Edward Island for the support of its
Government and Legislature that is to say 30,000 dollars and an
annual grant equal to 80 cents per head of its population as
shown by the census returns of 1871, viz. 94,021, both by half-
yearly payments in advance—such grant of eighty cents per head
to be augmented in proportion to the increase of population of the
Island as may be shown by each subsequent decennial census
until the population amounts to 400,000 at which rate such grant
shall remain it being understood that the next census shall be
taken in the vear 1881.
7. That the Dominion Government shall assume and defray
11 the charges for the following services, viz.
The salary of the Lieutenant-Governor.
The salaries of the Judges of the Superior Court and the
District or County Courts when established.
The charges in respect of the Department of Customs.
The Postal Department.
The protection of fisheries.
The provision for the Militia.
The lighthouses, shipwrecked crews, Quarantine and Marine
Hospitals.
The geological survey.
The Penitentiary.
Efficient steam service for the conveyance of mails and pas-
sengers to be established and maintained between the Island and
the mainland of the Dominion winter and summer, thus placing
the Island in continuous communication with the intercolonial
railway and the railway system of the Dominion.
The maintainance of telegraphic communication between the
Island and the mainland of the Dominion.
And such other charges as may be incident to and connected
with the services which by the B. N. A. Act 1867 appertain to
the General Government and as are or may be allowed to the
other provinces.
