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Page 196 - Such classes of subjects as are expressly excepted in the enumeration of the classes of subjects by this Act assigned exclusively to the Legislatures of the Provinces.
Page 197 - In and for each Province the Legislature may exclusively make laws in relation to education, subject and according to the following provisions :• — • 1. Nothing in any such law shall prejudicially affect any right or privilege with respect to denominational schools which any class of persons have by law in the Province at the union.
Page 210 - Greeting: Know ye, that we of our special grace, certain knowledge and mere motion, have given and granted, and by these presents, for us, our heirs and successors...
Page 198 - Powers, Privileges, and Duties at the Union by Law conferred and imposed in Upper Canada on the Separate Schools and School Trustees of the Queen's Roman Catholic Subjects shall be and the same are hereby extended to the Dissentient Schools of the Queen's Protestant and Roman Catholic Subjects in Quebec...
Page 196 - 2. The regulation of Trade and Commerce: "3. The raising of money by any mode or system of Taxation: '
Page 223 - Sign Manual and Signet, and according to such instructions as may from time to time be given to him under Our Sign Manual and Signet or by Our Order in our Privy Council, or by us through one of Our Principal Secretaries of State, and to such laws.
Page 197 - Province. 7. The establishment, maintenance, and management of hospitals, asylums, charities, and eleemosynary institutions in and for the Province, other than marine hospitals. •8. Municipal institutions in the Province. 9. Shop, saloon, tavern, auctioneer, and other licences in order to the raising of a revenue for Provincial, local, or municipal purposes.
Page 73 - ... every representative legislature shall, in respect to the colony under its jurisdiction, have, and be deemed at all times to have had, full power to make laws respecting the constitution, powers and procedure of such legislature...
Page 64 - After the first general election no Minister of State shall hold office for a longer period than three months unless he is or becomes a senator or a member of the House of Representatives.
Page 217 - Our behalf, grant a pardon to any accomplice in such crime or offence who shall give such information as shall lead to the conviction of the principal offender, or of any one of such offenders, if more than one; and further, may grant to any offender convicted of any...