HE BRITISH NORTH AMERICA ACT, 1867. 309 
selection of the arbitrators shall not be made until the Parliament 
of Canada and the Legislatures of Ontario and Quebec have met; 
and the arbitrator chosen by the Government of Canada shall 
not be a resident either in Ontario or in Quebec. 
143. - The Governor-General in Council may from time to time 
order that such and so many of the records, books, and documents 
of the Province of Canada as he thinks fit shall be appropriated 
and delivered either to Ontario or to Quebec, and the same shall 
thenceforth be the property of that Province; and. any copy 
thereof or extract therefrom, duly certified by the Officer having 
charge of the original thereof, shall be admitted as evidence. 
144. The Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec may from time to Constitu- 
time, by Proclamation under the Great Seal of the Province, to fen of os 
take effect from a day to be appointed therein, constitute Town- in Quebec 
ships in those parts of the Province of Quebec in which Town- 
ships are not then already constituted, and fix the metes and 
bounds thereof. 
Division of 
Records. 
X.  INTERCOLONIAL RAILWAY. 
145. Inasmuch as the Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, and Duty of 
New Brunswick have joined in a declaration that the construction Bove a 
of the Intercolonial Railway is essential to the consolidation of Parlia- 
the Union of British North America, and to the assent thereto Shan) gt » 
of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, and have consequently agreed make zail- 
that provision should be made for its immediate construction by yey here 
the Government of Canada: Therefore, in order to give effect to 
that agreement, it shall be the duty of the Government and 
Parliament of Canada to provide for the commencement, within 
Six Months after the Union, of a Railway connecting the River 
St Lawrence with the City of Halifax in Nova Scotia, and for 
the construction thereof without intermission, and the completion 
thereof with all practicable speed. 
XI. ApwmissioN oF OTHER COLONIES. 
146. Tt shall be lawful for the Queen, by and with the bw to 
advice of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, on Newfound 
Addresses from the Houses of the Parliament of Canada, and Jed, so. 
from the Houses of the respective Legislatures of the Colonies Coat Rt 
or Provinces of Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, and