CHAPTER XII.

Tur House oF COMMONS.

1.

NUMBER.

Tae House of Commons now consists of 215 members, Number.
distributed as follows:
Ontario 92
Quebec 65
Nova Scotia 21
New Brunswick 16
Manitoba 5
British Columbia 6
Prince Edward's Island 6
North-West Territories 4
215

Originally the House consisted of 182 members, but
provision was made by the British North America Act,
s. 57, for a decennial adjustment of representation. To
Quebec was assigned a fixed number, viz. 65 members:
to the other provinces was assigned such a number of
members as would bear the same proportion to the number
of its population (ascertained every ten years) as the number
65 would bear to the number of the population of Quebec

1 50 and 51 Vie. ¢. 4.