sing of laws for the peace, order. and good government of such Province, and for its representation in the said Parliament.

of limits of Provinces.

3. The Parliament of Canada may from Time to Time, Alteration with the consent of the Legislature of any Province of the said Dominion, increase, diminish, or otherwise alter the limits of such Province, upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed to by the said Legislature, and may, with the like consent, make provision respecting the effect and operation of any such increase or diminution or alteration of Territory in relation to any Province affected thereby.

Parliament of Canada may legis

4. The Parliament of Canada may from Time to Time make provision for the administration, peace, order, and late for good government of any Territory not for the time being tory not inincluded in any Province.

any terricluded in a Province.

tion of

liament of

cap. 3.

5. The following Acts passed by the said Parliament of ConfirmaCanada, and intituled respectively: "An Act for the tem- Acts of Par. porary government of Rupert's Land and the North Wes-Canada, 32 tern Territory when united with Canada," and "An & 33 Vict. (Canadian) "Act to amend and continue the Act thirty-two and cap. 3, 33 V, (Canadian), "thirty-three Victoria, chapter three, and to establish " and provide for the government of the Province of Mani"toba," shall be and be deemed to have been valid and effectual for all purposes whatsoever from the date at which they respectively received the assent, in the Queen's name, of the Governor-General of the said Dominion of Canada.

of

powers

Canada to

6. Except as provided by the third section of this Act, Limitation it shall not be competent for the Parliament of Canada to of Parlia alter the provisions of the last mentioned Act of the said ment of Parliament, in so far as it relates to the Province of Mani- legislate oba, or of any other Act hereafter establishing new Pro-established vinces in the said Dominion, subject always to the right Province. of the Legislature of the Province of Manitoba to alter

for an

from Time to Time the provisions of any law respecting the qualification of electors and members of the Legislative Assembly, and to make laws respecting elections in the said Province.

APPENDIX C.

38-39 VICTORIA.

CHAP. XXXVIII.

An Act to remove certain doubts with respect to the powers of the Parliament of Canada under Section Eighteen of the British North America Act, 1867.

WH

[19th July, 1875.]

HEREAS by Section Eighteen of the British North 30 and 31 America Act, 1867, it is provided as follows:Vict., c. 3. "The privileges, immunities and powers to be held, "enjoyed and exercised by the Senate and by the House "of Commons, and by the Members thereof respectively, "shall be such as are from time to time defined by Act of "the Parliament of Canada, but so that the same shall 66 never exceed those at the passing of this Act, held, enjoyed and exercised by the Commons House of Par"liament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and "Ireland and by the members thereof."

And whereas doubts have arisen with regard to the power of defining by an Act of the Parliament of Canada, in pursuance of the said section, the said privileges, powers, or immunities: and it is expedient to remove such doubts:

Be it, therefore, enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the

Substitution of new

Lords, Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1. Section Eighteen of the British North America Act, Section for 1867, is hereby repealed without prejudice to anything done under that section, and the following section shall be substituted for the section so repealed.

Se tlon 18

of 30 & 31

Vict., c. 3.

Confirma

tion of Act dian Par

of Cana

liament.

Short Title.

The privileges, immunities and powers to be held, enjoyed and exercised by the Senate and by the House of Commons, and by the Members thereof, respectively, shall be such as are from time to time defined by Act of the Parliament of Canada, but so that any Act of the Parliament of Canada defining such privileges, immunities and powers shall not confer any privileges, immunities or power exceeding those at the passing of such Act, held, enjoyed and exercised by the Commons House of Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and by the Members thereof.

2. The Act of the Parliament of Canada passed in the thirty-first year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, chapter twenty-four, intituled "An Act to provide for oaths to witnesses being administered in certain cases for the purposes of either House of Parliament "shall be deemed to be valid, and to have been valid as from the date at which the Royal assent was given thereto by the Governor-General of the Dominion of Canada.

3. This Act may be cited as "The Parliament of Canada Act, 1875."

INDEX.