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APPENDIX. 
at the nomination of the Lieutenant-Governor, to which an 
annual salary, or any fee, allowance, emolument, or profit of any 
kind or amount whatever from the Province is attached, shall 
not be eligible as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of the 
respective Province, nor shall he sit or vote as such ; but nothing 
In this Section shall make ineligible any person being a Member 
of the Executive Council of the respective Provinces, or holding 
any of the following Offices, that is to say:—the Offices of 
Attorney-General, Secretary and Registrar of the Province, 
Treasurer of the Province, Commissioner of Crown Lands, and 
Commissioner of Agriculture and Public Works, and in Quebec 
Solicitor-General, or shall disqualify him to sit or vote in the 
House for which he is elected, provided he is elected while 
holding such Office. 
Continu- 
ance of 
existing 
election 
Laws. 
84. Until the Legislatures of Ontario and Quebec respec- 
tively otherwise provide, all laws which at the Union are in 
force in those Provinces respectively, relative to the following 
matters, or any of them, namely,—the qualifications and disquali- 
fications of persons to be elected or to sit or vote as Members of 
the Assembly of Canada, the qualifications or disqualifications of 
voters, the oaths to be taken by voters, the Returning Officers, 
their powers and duties, the proceedings at Elections, the periods 
during which such Elections may be continued, and the trial 
of controverted Elections and the proceedings incident thereto, 
the vacating of the seats of Members and the issuing and execu- 
tion of new Writs in case of seats vacated otherwise than by 
dissolution, shall respectively apply to Elections of Members to 
serve in the respective Legislative Assemblies of Ontario and 
uebec. 
Provided that until the Legislature of Ontario otherwise pro- 
vides, at any Election for a Member of the Legislative Assembly 
of Ontario for the District of Algoma, in addition to persons 
qualified by the law of the Province of Canada to vote, every 
male British Subject, aged Twenty-one years or upwards, being a 
householder shall have a vote. 
Duration 85. Every Legislative Assembly of Ontario and every Legis- 
3% Lele lative Assembly of Quebec shall continue for Four Years from the 
semblies. day of the return of the Writs for choosing the same (subject 
nevertheless to either the Legislative Assembly of Ontario or the