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a person qualified as above on certain conditions. Qualification 
is also given for assessment in respect of income to the amount 
of $250, or the earning of at least $250 from some profession or 
trade, or from some investment, or the ownership of real 
property, boats, nets, fishing-gear and tackle, or of boats, nets, 
fishing-gear and tackle, of the actual value of $150. The House 
consists of thirty-eight members returned by eighteen districts, 
of which two have three members, and the rest two each. 
In the case of the Ontario House of 106 members, one 
for each seat, under Acts 1908, cc. 2 and 3, and the 
New Brunswick House of forty-six members elected for 
sixteen districts (five returning four members, four three, the 
rest two), under c. 3 of the Revised Statutes, 1903, manhood 
suffrage applies, and the same is the case with British 
Columbia (forty-two members), Manitoba (forty-one mem- 
bers), Alberta (at first twenty-five members—now forty-one 
members for thirty-nine divisions under Act 1909, c. 2), 
and Saskatchewan (at first twenty-five, now forty-one 
members). In British Columbia one district has five, one 
four, and one two members. Under the Act 1908, ¢. 1, in 
the case of Prince Edward Island the Assembly is divided 
into two groups, fifteen of whom are elected by electors 
with a property qualification of $325, while the others are 
elected on a low and complicated franchise approximating to 
manhood suffrage! the property owner thus having two 
votes. Residence of a year in the province and three months 
in the electoral district is usually required. 
There are certain disqualifications on North American 
Indians for the franchise.2 They are entitled to vote freely in 
Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Quebec ; they cannot 
vote in New Brunswick or in Alberta and Saskatchewan. 
In Manitoba Indians or persons of Indian blood receiving 
annuity or treaty money from the Crown, or who have 
' See Act 1908, ec. 1, sched. 3. Ownership or oceupation of property 
worth 100 dollars or six dollars a year, payment in Charlottetown and 
Summerside of one dollar poll-tax, or payment of one dollar under the 
Public Road Act, 1907, are qualifications. 
* Parl. Pap., Cd. 427. For Alberta see the Act 1909, ec. 3, s. 1; for 
Saskatchewan the Electoral Act of 1908, c. 2,s. 11. The franchise is of 
course dealt with in the Revised Statutes of each province.