Full text: The Constitution of Canada

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APPENDIX. 
The Senate. 
Number of ~~ 21, The Senate shall, subject to the provisions of this Act, 
Bovators, consist of seventy-two Members. who shall be styled Senators. 
Represen- 22. In relation to the constitution of the Senate, Canada 
i shall be deemed to consist of three divisions — 
un Senate. 1. Ontario: 
2. Quebec: 
3. The Maritime Provinces, Nova Scotia and New Bruns- 
wick ; which three divisions shall (subject to the provisions of 
this Act) be equally represented in the Senate as follows :— 
Ontario by Twenty-four Senators; Quebec by Twenty-four 
Senators: and the Maritime Provinces by Twenty-four Senators, 
Twelve thereof representing Nova Scotia, and Twelve thereof 
epresenting New Brunswick. 
In the case of Quebec each of the twenty-four Senators 
representing that Province shall be appointed for one of the 
twenty-four Electoral Divisions of Lower Canada specified in 
Schedule A to Chapter One of the Consolidated Statutes of 
Tanada. 
i 23. The qualification of a Senator shall be as follows :— 
Senators. (1) He shall be of the full age of Thirty years ; 
(2) He shall be either a natural-born subject of the Queen, 
or a subject of the Queen naturalized by an Act of the 
Parliament of Great Britain, or of the Parliament of the 
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or of the 
Legislature of one of the Provinces of Upper Canada, 
Lower Canada, Canada, Nova Scotia, or New Brunswick, 
oefore the Union, or of the Parliament of Canada after 
the Union : 
He shall be legally or equitably seised as of freehold for 
his own use and benefit of lands or tenements held in 
free and common socage, or seised or possessed for his 
own use and benefit of lands or tenements held in franc- 
alleu or in roture, within the Province for which he is 
appointed, of the value of Four thousand dollars, over 
and above all rents, dues, debts, charges, mortgages, and 
incumbrances due or payable out of or charged on or 
affecting the same :
	        
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