THE BRITISH NORTH AMERICA ACT, 1867. 295 
Legislative Assembly of Quebec being sooner dissolved by the 
Lieutenant-Governor of the Province), and no longer. 
86. There shall be a Session of the Legislature of Ontario Yearly 
and of that of Quebec once at least in every year, SO that twelve De ” 
months shall not intervene between the last sitting of the Legis- lature. 
lature in each Province in one Qession and its first sitting in the 
next Session. 
87. The following provisions of this Act respecting the Speaker, 
House of Commons of Canada shall extend and apply to the 
Legislative Assemblies of Ontario and Quebec, that is to say,— 
the provisions relating to the Election of a Speaker originally 
and on vacancies, the duties of the Speaker, the absence of the 
Speaker, the quorum, and the mode of voting, as if those provi- 
sions were here re-enacted and made applicable in terms to each 
such Legislative Assembly. 
1. 
NOVA SCOTIA AND NEW BRUNSWICK. 
88. The Constitution of the Legislature of each of the Pro- Constitu- 
vinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick shall, subject to the Siang of 
provisions of this Act, continue as it exists at the Union until me of 
altered under the authority of this Act; and the House of BO 
Assembly of New Brunswick existing at the passing of this Act and New 
shall, unless sooner dissolved, continue for the period for which it Bi 
was elected. ’ 
5 ONTARIO, QUEBEC, AND ‘NOVA SCOTIA. 
89. Fach of the Lieutenant-Governors of Ontario, Quebec, First 
and Nova Scotia, shall cause Writs to be issued for the first Elections. 
Election of Members of the Legislative Assembly thereof in 
such form and by such person as he thinks fit, and at such time 
and addressed to such Returning Officer as the Governor-General 
directs, and so that the first Election of Member of Assembly for 
any Electoral District or any sub-division thereof shall be held at 
the same time and at the same places as the Election for a 
Member to serve in the House of Commons of Canada for that 
Rlectoral District.