CHAP. 1] THE DOMINION OF CANADA 769
The Commissioner in Council shall pass Ordinances in
respect to education,! but every such Ordinance must pro-
vide that a majority of the ratepayers of any district may
establish such schools and assess such rates as they think
fit, and the minority may establish separate schools and pay
rates in respect of them only. Electoral matters can be
regulated by Ordinance. Male adult suffrage exists.
Any such Ordinance may be disallowed by the Governor-
General in Council at any time within two years.
The Governor-General in Council (that is, with the advice
of the Privy Council of Canada) can also make temporary
Ordinances for the peace, order, and good government of
the Yukon Territory,? and the laws of the Parliament of
Canada, unless otherwise provided in each law, apply to the
Yukon Territory, but the Governor-General in Council has
rower to apply to the Yukon laws not otherwise in force.
§ 11. BOUNDARIES
The Province of Manitoba, which as originally created was
of small size, say 13,500 (49°-50° 3(/ N., and 96°-99° W.)
Square miles, was greatly extended by an Act of the Dominion
Parliament, 44 Vict. ec. 14, which placed the boundaries at
49°-53° N. and 90°-101° W. longitude, thus increasing the
size of the province to 73,956 square miles. But Manitoba,
lost some territory to Ontario, which on its part had a long
dispute with the Dominion as to its limits. In 1878 there
was an agreement to arbitration, the arbitrators being, for
Ontario the Chief Justice, for the Dominion Sir Francis
Hincks, and as a third arbitrator Sir Edward Thornton, the
British Minister at Washington. The decision of the three
{ Cf. No. 27 of 1902, and Provincial Legislation, 1901-3, p. 122. Tor the
powers of the Yukon Council re liquor, see ibid., p. 123.
* No Ordinance extends beyond the end of the next parliamentary
Session, unless it is approved by Parliament ; it cannot impose a tax save
in connexion with gold- or silver-mining or a duty of customs or excise or
Appropriate public lands, and every Ordinance must be published for four
weeks ere it comes into force ; see ss. 16, 17 of Rev. Stat., c. 63.
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