 | John George Bourinot - 1884 - 814 pages
...one session, and its last sitting in the next session."1 A subsequent section also provides that " every House of Commons shall continue for five years from the day of the return of the writs for choosing the house, — (subject to be sooner dissolved by the governor-general), — and no longer."3... | |
 | Québec (Province) - 1888 - 1288 pages
...the Speaker, arid when the voices are equal, but not otherwise, the Speaker shall have a vote. 50. Every House of Commons shall continue for five years from the day of the return of the writs for choosing the House (subject to be sooner dissolved by the Governor-General), and no longer. Decennial... | |
 | Joseph Edwin Crawford Munro - 1889 - 440 pages
...Act, s. 50, provides that, subject to the above-mentioned power of dissolution by the GovernorGeneral, every House of Commons shall continue for five years from the day of the return of the writs for choosing the House. Demise of The Canadian Parliament is not affected by the demise -of the Crown,... | |
 | Herbert Baxter Adams - 1889 - 654 pages
...advantage to the country. It may be argued with truth that generally in a federal system it •50. Every house of commons shall continue for five years from the day of the return of the writs for choosing the house (subject to be sooner dissolved by the governor-general), and no longer. 51.... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1890 - 222 pages
...vacant District. [Art. 43.\ § 133. Lower House: — Choice; — Term of members. Canada. — Ever)' House of Commons shall continue for Five Years from the Day of the Return of the Writs for choosing the House and no longer. [Art. 5o.\ Germany. — The Diet shall be elected for three years.... | |
 | William Houston - 1891 - 372 pages
...in case of any seat being vacated otherwise than by a dissolution, — shall respectively apply to elections of members to serve in the House of Commons,...for places situate in those Provinces respectively. i The twenty-third and twenty-fourth resolutions were omitted at the London Conference. (See Note 1,... | |
 | 1891 - 1070 pages
...originally provided that every legislative assembly of the said colony hereafter to be summoned and chosen shall continue for five years from the day of the return of the writs for choosing the same and no longer subject nevertheless to be sooner prorogued or dissolved by the... | |
 | Joseph Pope - 1895 - 352 pages
...proportionate Representation of the several Provinces prescribed by this Act is not thereby disturbed. 36. Every House of Commons shall continue for five Years from the Day of the Return of the Writs for choosing the House (subject to be sooner prorogued or dissolved by the GovernorGeneral), and no... | |
 | James Frith Jeffers, James Lawrence Nichols - 1896 - 602 pages
...the Speaker shall have a vote. (7) The Duration of the House of Commons, after a general election, shall continue for five years from the day of the return of the writs for choosing the House (subject to be sooner dissolved by the Governor-General), and no longer. (8)... | |
 | Canada. Parliament. Senate - 1896 - 572 pages
...do so. Then, on the other hand, we have section 50 of the British North America Act which says :— Every House of Commons shall continue for five years from the day of the returning of the writs for choosing the House (subject to be sooner dissolved by the Governor General)... | |
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Every House of Commons shall continue for five years from the Day of the Return of the Writs for choosing the House (subject to be sooner dissolved by the Governor General), and no longer. 
