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54. Tt shall not be lawful for the House of Commons to Recom- 
adopt or pass any Vote, Resolution, Address, or Bill for the Hendy, 
appropriation of any part of the Public Revenues, or of any Tax money 
or Impost, to any purpose that has not been first recommended votes. 
to that house by Message of the Governor-General in the Session 
in which such Vote, Resolution, Address or Bill is proposed. 
55. Where a Bill passed by the Houses of Parliament is Royal 
presented to the Governor-General for the Queen's assent, he Amn 
shall declare, according to his discretion, but subject to the 
provisions of this Act and to Her Majesty's Instructions, either 
that he assents thereto in the Queen’s name, or that he withholds 
the Queen's assent, or that he reserves the Bill for the signification 
of the Queens pleasure. 
56. Where the Governor-General assents to a Bill in the Disallow- 
Queen’s name, he shall by the first convenient opportunity, send i 
an authentic copy of the Act to one of Her Majesty's Principal Council 
Secretaries of State, and if the Queen in Qouncil within two years a as a 
after receipt thereof by the Secretary of State thinks fit to disallow to by 
the Act, such disallowance (with a certificate of the Secretary of iin 
State of the day on which the Act was received by him) being ’ 
signified by the Governor-General, by Speech or Message to 
each of the Houses of Parliament, or by Proclamation, shall 
annulthe Act from and after the day of such signification. 
57. A Bill reserved for the signification of the Queen's Significa- 
pleasure shall not have any force unless and until within two ob 
years from the day on which it was presented to the Governor- pleasure 
General for the Queen’s Assent, the Governor-General signifies, mB 
by Speech or Message to each of the Houses of Parliament, or by 
Proclamation, that it has received the Assent of the Queen in 
Council. 
An entry of every such Speech, Message, or Proclamation 
shall be made in the Journal of each House, and a duplicate 
thereof duly attested shall be delivered to the proper Officer to be 
kept among the Records of Canada. 
V. ProviNciAL CONSTITUTIONS. 
Fxecutive Power. 
58. Tor each Province there shall be an officer, styled the Appoint. 
Lieutenant-Governor, appointed by the Governor-General in ph o 
Council by Instrument under the Great Seal of Canada. tenant- 
(9 Governors.