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apply to a man who is merely a shareholder in an incorporated 
company, with the exception of a company having the 
execution of any public works. Legislative Councillors must 
also hold the same qualifications as members of the Canadian 
Senate (except that their property need only be in the 
district in which the division is situated), and their seats are 
vacated in the same circumstances. 
2. The only provision affecting the powers of the Legis- 
lative Council is that contained in s. 53 of the British North 
America Act, which is applied by s. 90 to the provinces, and 
which provides that Bills for appropriating any part of the 
public revenue or for imposing any tax or impost shall 
originate in the Lower House. 
3. No provision exists for the adjustment of differences 
between the two Chambers of the Legislature of Quebec. 
(¢) Nova Scotia 
Under the Revised Statutes, 1900, the Legislative Council 
of Nova Scotia consists of twenty-one members ! nominated 
by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council. No person can be 
appointed who is a member of the Federal Parliament, or 
holds certain specified offices under the Provincial Govern- 
ment, or is declared by the judgement of a court of competent 
jurisdiction to be disqualified from being elected to or sitting 
in the House of Commons of Canada by reason of any viola- 
tion of the law of Canada relating to elections or to the trial 
of controverted elections, so long as such disqualification 
lasts. A seat is vacated by two sessions’ consecutive 
absence from the Council without the consent of the 
Lieutenant-Governor in Council. 
2. The only provision affecting the powers of the Legis- 
lative Council is that contained in s. 53 of the British North 
America Act, which is applied by s. 90 to the provinces, and 
which provides that Bills for appropriating any part of the 
public revenue or for imposing any tax or impost shall 
originate in the Lower House. 
3. No provision exists for the adjustment of differences 
between the two Chambers of the Legislature of Nova Scotia. 
For the number and tenure, sco below, chap. viii.