12 THE SOURCES OF THE LAW AND
tories!, British Columbia? and Prince Edward’s Island? into
the Dominion. Several Orders in Council have been issued
lisallowing Acts of the Dominion Parliament.
Orders in Council are often issued under the authority of
Statute by the Governor and Privy Council of Canada. The
Lieutenant-Governor of the North West Territories for in-
stance carries on the government and administration of these
Territories partly under the provision of the Statute Law
partly under Orders of the Dominion Privy Council.
5. Orders of the Dominion Parliament and Provincial
Legislatures. The Dominion Parliament and the Provincial
Legislatures conduct their proceedings partly under the
authority of statutes, partly under standing and other orders,
and partly under customs and usages. Each House has its
own standing orders and resolutions, based mainly on the
practice that prevails in the English House of Commons.
The written rules of the Dominion House of Commons and
of the Quebec Legislative Assembly are much more detailed
shan those drawn up by the other legislative bodies, but all
‘he Legislative Assemblies agree in adopting as a standing
order that “in all unprovided cases the rules, usages and
forms of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland shall be followed.”
6. Usages. The constitutional usages that always tend
0 come into existence cannot be neglected, whether the effect
be to supply the absence of a necessary legal rule or to
modify the administration of a law. The Hon. J. S.C. Wurtele,
Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec, has compiled
a body of such usages in force in that assembly®, and Mr
Burinot, in his valuable work on Parliamentary Practice, refers
to many similar usages followed by the Dominion Parliament.
7. Letters Patent and Instructions relating to the office
of the Governor-General. The Letters Patent constituting the
1 30th June, 1870. 2 16th May, 1871. 3 26th June, 1873.
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