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 expulsion®
 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.