RESIGNATION. 
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(3) By death. 
(4) By accepting certain offices 
The House of Commons on at least one occasion since Expulsion 
the Confederation has expelled a member. Previous to of Mem. 
the Union the Legislative Assemblies of Lower and Upper 
Canada had several times exercised the power of ex- 
pulsion® In 1874 Louis Riel accused of the murder of 
Thomas Scott, was expelled as a fugitive from justice, and 
when he was returned again in 1875, a new writ was ordered 
to be issued for the election of a new member “in the room 
of Louis Riel adjudged an outlaw.” 
! RB. 8.C.c. 14, 83. 5—7. See ante, p. 129. 
2 See cases in Burinot, p. 150.