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PREFACE. 
work on Parliamentary Government in the Colonies has 
Jfiscussed such matters at full length. In the chapter on 
the Dominion Parliament I have availed myself of the very 
valuable work of Mr Bourinot on Parliamentary Procedure in 
Canada. 
In the last session of the Canadian Parliament several 
Acts were passed that modify some of the statements in the 
iext. By the 51 Vic. c. 11 the Dominion Elections Act has been 
mended as regards the nomination of candidates, the method 
of voting, and the definition of corrupt practices; by the 
51 Vic. c. 17, the organisation of the Department of Public 
Printing has been modified; and by the 51 Vie. c. 43 appeals 
criminal cases to the Judicial Committee of the Privy 
Council have been forbidden. 
The most important change introduced into the constitu- 
sion has been the formation of a Legislative Assembly for the 
North West Territories. By chapter 50 of the Revised 
Statutes of Canada the Council of the North West Terri- 
bories, as soon as its number reached twenty-one, was to give 
way to a Legislative Assembly’. The new Assembly is to 
consist of twenty-two elected members and three legal experts, 
the former to be elected by such male British subjects, other 
than unenfranchised Indians, as have been resident in the 
Territories for twelve months, and in their electoral districts 
for three months, preceding the election; the latter to be 
aominated by the Governor-General in Council. 
The legal experts have the same privileges as elected 
members, except that they are not allowed to vote: on a 
jissolution taking place they vacate their offices. 
The Lieutenant-Governor is authorised to nominate four 
members of the Assembly to act as an advisory council” on 
See post, p. 36.