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return Two Members, and each of the other Counties One 
Member, 
Continu- 
ance of 
axisting 
Election 
Laws until 
Parlia- 
alent of 
Canadas 
otherwise 
provides. 
4. NEW BRUNSWICK. 
Each of the Fourteen Counties into which New Brunswick is 
divided, including the City and County of St John, shall be an 
Electoral District. The City of St John shall also be a separate 
Electoral District. Each of those Fifteen Electoral Districts 
shall be entitled to return One Member. 
41. Until the Parliament of Canada otherwise provides, all 
laws in force in the several Provinces at the Union relative to the 
following matters or any of them, namely :—The qualifications 
and disqualifications of persons to be elected or to sit or vote as 
Members of the House of Assembly or Legislative Assembly in 
the several Provinces ; the Voters at Elections of such Members } 
she oaths to be taken by Voters; the Returning Officers, their 
powers and duties; the proceedings at Elections; the periods 
during which Elections may be continued; the trial of controverted 
Elections, and proceedings incident thereto ; the vacating of seats 
of Members, and the execution of new Writs in case of seats 
vacated otherwise than by dissolution,—shall respectively apply 
to Elections of Members to serve in the House of Commons for 
the same several Provinces. Provided that, until the Parliament 
of Canada otherwise provides, at any Election for a Member of 
the House of Commons for the District of Algoma, in addition to 
persons qualified by the law of the Province of Canada to vote, 
every male British Subject, aged Twenty-one years or upwards, 
being a householder, shall have a vote. 
Writs for 42. For the first Election of Members to serve in the House 
first of Commons, the Governor-General shall cause Writs to be issued 
Election. . . 
by such person, in such form, and addressed to such Returning 
Officers as he thinks fit. 
The person issuing Writs under this Section shall have the like 
powers as are possessed at the Union by the Officers charged with 
the issuing of Writs for the Election of Members to serve in the 
respective House of Assembly or Legislative Assembly of the 
Province of Canada, Nova Scotia, or New Brunswick ; and the 
Returning Officers to whom Writs are directed under this Section 
shall have the like powers as are possessed at the Union by the 
Officers charged with the Returning of Writs for the Election of