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Commissioner and Minister of Education. In British
Columbia there are besides the Premier, who is Minister of
Mines, a Minister of Finance and Agriculture, an Attorney-
General, a Provincial Secretary who is Minister also of
Education and Immigration, a Chief Commissioner of Lands,
a Minister of Works, and a President of the Council, and
since 1911 a Minister for Railways. The ministerial salary is
five thousand dollars, and there must by law be not more
than seven (since 1911 eight) members of the Executive
Council, of whom six (seven since 1911) only can be paid
salaries.) In Prince Edward Island there is a Premier who
is Attorney-General, a Provincial Secretary who is Treasurer
and Commissioner of Agriculture, and a Commissioner “of
Public Works, while there are five or six members also with-
out portfolio. The paid members receive twelve hundred
dollars a year. In Saskatchewan the Executive Council
consists of a Premier who is President of the Council and
Minister of Public Works, a Provincial Treasurer who is
Minister of Education and Minister of Railways, Telegraphs
and Telephones, an Attorney-General, a Minister of Agricul-
ture and Provincial Secretary, and a Minister of Municipal
Affairs, the salary being five thousand dollars with an extra
thousand for the Premier. In Alberta again the Premier
combines the portfolios of Premier, President of Council,
Minister of Public Works and Provincial Treasurer, and there
are also an Attorney-General and Minister of Education,
a Minister of Agriculture and a Provincial Secretary, the
salaries being as in Saskatchewan. It will be seen how
curiously the division of duties varies, and how great in the
cases of Prince Edward Island and in Nova Scotia is the
contingent of unpaid members without portfolio, a survival in
both cases from the large and amorphous councils period
preceding responsible government.
In Newfoundland the same phenomenon is to be seen :
the ministers include the Premier, who from 1900 to 1908
was Colonial Secretary, an Attorney-General and Minister of
Justice. a Minister of Finance and Customs, and a Minister
1 Act 1908, c. 12.
