TERMS OF UNION OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. 321 
shall be such as the said House of the Legislature of the said 
colony of Prince Edward Island shall specify in their said 
addresses. 
In the addresses from Prince Edward Island it was stipulated 
that the Island should be divided into three districts each re- 
turning two members and 
“that the lst election of members to serve in the House of 
Commons of Canada shall take place within three calendar 
months after this Island shall be admitted and become part of 
the Dominion of Canada and that all laws which at the date of 
the Order in Council by which the said Island of Prince 
Edward shall be admitted into the Dominion of Canada, relating 
to the qualification of any person to be elected to sit or vote 
as a member of the House of Assembly of the said Island, and 
relating to the qualifications or disqualifications of voters and to 
the oaths to be taken by voters and to returning officers and poll 
clerks and their powers and duties, and relating to polling divisions 
within the said Island, and relating to the proceedings at elections 
and to the period during which such elections may be continued, 
and relating to the trial of controverted elections and the pro- 
ceedings incident thereto, and relating to the vacating of seats of 
members and to the execution of new writs in case of any seat 
being vacated otherwise by a dissolution, and all other matters 
connected with or incidental to elections of members to serve in 
the House of Assembly of the said Island shall apply to elections 
of members to serve in the House of Commons for the Electoral 
Districts, situate in the said Island of Prince Edward.” 
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