234 DIVISION OF LEGISLATIVE POWER.

6. Railways and railway stocks, mortgages, and other
debts due by railway companies.
7. Military roads.
8. Custom Houses, Post Offices, and all other public
buildings, except such as the Government of Canada appropriate
 for the use of the provincial Legislatures and Governments.

9. Property transferred by the Imperial government and
known as Ordnance property.
10.  Armouries, drill sheds, military clothing and munisions
 of war, and hands set apart for general public purposes,
Debts of The Act also by sect. 102 imposed upon the Dominion
bsiac the charge of the general public debts of the several provinces,
and vested in the Dominion the general public revenues as
then existing of the provinces. But this provision was made
subject to certain exceptions contained in sect. 126, viz. 1)
such portions of the pre-existing duties and revenues as were
by the Act “reserved to the respective Legislatures of the
provinces ;” and (2) such duties and revenues as might be
“received by them in accordance with the special powers
conferred on them by the Act.” As regards the first exception
 the only duties and revenues reserved to the provinces
are specified in section 109, which enacted that all lands,
mines, minerals and royalties belonging to the several provinces
 at the time of the Union were to remain vested in
the provinces'; and it was provided that the several
provinces should retain all their respective public property
not otherwise disposed of by the Act, subject to the right of
Canada to reserve any lands or public property required for
fortifications or for the defence of the country?
The right of the provinces to the above land includes
the right to the banks and beds of rivers and streams in each
province, and therefore it has been held® that the Dominion
{ B. N. A. Act, s. 109. 2 Ib. s. 117.
Regina v. Robertson, 6 Can. 8. C. BR. 52: 2 Cart. 65.