518 PARLIAMENTS OF THE DOMINIONS [parr II 
There are no second Chambers in the other Canadian 
Provinces at the present day. In Ontario and British 
Columbia none has ever existed ; that of New Brunswick 
disappeared in 1891 (it had twenty-three members) ; that of 
Prince Edward Island, elective from 1862 onwards, was 
merged in the Assembly by an Act of 1893, c. 21, and that of 
Manitoba was abolished by a local Act (c. 28) in 1876, The 
new provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta have a single 
chamber only. 
§ 2. NEWFOUNDLAND 
Under the letters patent of March 28, 1876, the Legislative 
Council of Newfoundland consists of members nominated 
and appointed by the King under the sign-manual and signet, 
or provisionally appointed by the Governor and afterwards 
confirmed by His Majesty. The total number of the said 
Legislative Council for the time being resident within 
Newfoundland shall not at any time by such provisional 
appointments be raised to a greater number on the whole 
than fifteen. The number of members who can be appointed 
by His Majesty is not limited in any way, and at present 
the Council contains twenty-one members. Every member 
holds his place during the King’s pleasure, and may be 
removed by any instruction or warrant issued by His Majesty 
under the sign-manual and signet, and with the advice of the 
Privy Council. The quorum is five, 
2. By No. 249 of the Rules of the House of Assembly 
adopted at the first session of the 16th Assembly and amended 
in the fifth session of the said Assembly, it is provided that 
“all aids and supplies and aids to His Excellency in Legis- 
lature are the sole gifts of the Assembly ; and all Bills for 
the granting of any such aids and supplies ought to begin 
with the Assembly ; and it is the undoubted and sole right 
of the Assembly to direct, limit, and appoint in such Bills 
the ends, purposes, considerations, conditions, limitations, 
and qualifications of such grants; which ought not to be 
changed or altered by the Legislative Council’. But the 
House will not insist on its privileges in the following cases