Preamble, On what amount of debt Nova Scotia shall receive or be chargeable with interest. Additional annual allow ance to Nova Scotia for ten years. W CAP. II. [Assented to 22nd June, 1869.] An Act respecting Nova Scotia. HEREAS it appears by Message from His Excellency the Governor General, and the Report of a Committee of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada, approved by His Excellency on the twenty-fifth day of January now last, and other documents accompanying the said Message, that it is just and expedient to add to the sums payable to the Province of Nova Scotia, under the British North America Act, 1867; Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: 1. Nova Scotia shall be liable to Canada for the amount (if any) by which its public debt at the Union exceeded nine million one hundred and eighty-six thousand seven hundred and fifty-six dollars, and shall be chargeable with interest on such excess only, and shall be entitled to interest on any amount by which its public debt then fall short of that sum, as if the said sum were mentioned in Sections one hundred and fourteen and one hundred and sixteen, of the British North America Act, 1867, instead of that of eight million dollars. 2. Nova Scotia shall receive from Canada, for the period of ten years from the first day of July, 1867, an allowance of eightytwo thousand six hundred and ninety-eight dollars per annum, in addition to all other sums payable to the said Province under the British North America Act, 1867; and such allowance shall How payable. hereafter be paid by half yearly payments in advance from the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, the arrears thereof up to the day last mentioned being capitalized either in whole or in part as the Governor in Council may determine and the interest on the part capitalized being payable until the end of the said ten years, when the principal shall be paid. As to the cost of the Pro vince Building Currency; and 3. Nova Scotia shall, from the date of the completion of the new Province Building, be debited in account with Canada, with interest at the rate of five per cent. per annum, on the cost of that Building, until it shall have been placed at the disposal of the Dominion. 4. All sums mentioned in this Act shall be currency of the how charge former Province of Canada, and shall be a charge upon and payable out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of Canada. able. Grants to be 5. The grants and provisions made by this Act, and the British in full settle. North America Act, 1867, shall be in full settlement of all ment of all claims. demands on Canada by Nova Scotia. CAP. CAP. III. An Act for the temporary Government of Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory when united with Canada. WHE [Assented to 22nd June, 1869.] HEREAS it is probable that Her Majesty the Queen Preamble. may, pursuant to "The British North America Act, 1867," be pleased to admit Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory into the Union or Dominion of Canada, before the next Session of the Canadian Parliament: And whereas it is expedient to prepare for the transfer of the said Territories from the Local Authorities to the Government of Canada, at the time appointed by the Queen for such admission, and to make some temporary provision for the Civil Government of such Territories until more permanent arrangements can be made by the Government and Legislature of Canada; Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: 1. The said Territories when admitted as aforesaid, shall be Name of terstyled and known as "The North-West Territories." ritories. 2. It shall be lawful for the Governor, by any Order or Orders, Appointment to be by him from time to time made, with the advice of the Privy and functions Council, (and subject to such conditions and restrictions as to Governor. him shall seem meet) to authorize and empower such Officer as he may from time to time appoint as Lieutenant-Governor of the North-West Territories, to make provision for the adminis of Lieutenant tration of Justice therein, and generally to make, ordain, and power to him establish all such Laws, Institutions and Ordinances as may be to make laws. necessary for the Peace, Order and good Government of Her Majesty's subjects and others therein; provided that all such Proviso. Orders in Council, and all Laws and Ordinances, so to be made as aforesaid, shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament as soon as conveniently may be after the making and enactment thereof respectively. 3. The Lieutenant-Governor shall administer the Government Instructions to under instructions from time to time given him by Order in Lieutenant Council. Governor. Lieutenant 4. The Governor may, with the advice of the Privy Council, Appointment constitute and appoint, by Warrant under his Sign Manual, a of Council to Council of not exceeding fifteen nor less than seven persons, to Governor. aid the Lieutenant-Governor in the administration of affairs, with such powers as may be from time to time conferred upon them by Order in Council. 5. All the Laws in force in Rupert's Land and the North- Existing laws Western Territory, at the time of their admission into the Union, shall to remain in foree. office. shall so far as they are consistent with "The British North America Act, 1867,"-with the terms and conditions of such admission approved of by the Queen under the 146th section thereof, and with this Act,-remain in force until altered by the Parliament of Canada, or by the Lieutenant Governor under the authority of this Act. Public officers, 6. All Public Officers and Functionaries holding office in Ru&c., to retain pert's Land and the North-Western Territory, at the time of their admisssion into the Union, excepting the Public Officer or Functionary at the head of the administration of affairs, shall continue to be Public Officers and Functionaries of the North-West Territories with the same duties and powers as before, until otherwise ordered by the Lieutenant Governor, under the authority of this Act. Duration of this Act. Preamble. Department constituted. Its duties. Audit Branch. Further dis tribution of business may be made. 7. This Act shall continue in force until the end of the next Session of Parliament. CAP. IV. An Act respecting the Department of Finance. ER Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the 1. There shall be a Department of the Civil Service of Canada, to be called "The Department of Finance," over which the Minister of Finance for the time being, appointed by the Governor by Commission under the Great Seal of the Dominion, shall preside; and the said Minister shall hold office during pleasure, and shall have the management and direction of the Department. 2. The Department of Finance shall have the supervision, control, and direction of all matters relating to the Financial Affairs and Public Accounts, Revenue and Expenditure of the Dominion, which are not, or in so far as they are not, by law, or by order of the Governor in Council, assigned to any other Department of the Civil Service, and such other duties as may from time to time be assigned to it by the Governor in Council. 3. The Auditor General and the Deputy Inspector General shall be officers of the Finance Department, and the Board of Audit shall (as by law provided) perform its duties under the supervision and direction of the Minister of Finance, and all officers and clerks of and in the Department of Finance shall respectively have and perform such duties as are or may be hereafter assigned to them by law, or by order of the Governor in Council, or by the Minister of Finance: and such arrangements, distribution or union of the various duties, functions and business devolving devolving on the several branches of the said department, or such amalgamation thereof or of any of them, may be made, as the Minister of Finance with the approval of the Governor in Council may from time to time direct. constitution 4. There shall be a Board to be called the "The Treasury Treasury Board," which shall consist of the Minister of Finance, the Recei- Board, its ver General, the Minister of Customs and the Minister of Inland and duties. Revenue, and shall act as a Committee of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada, on all matters relating to Finance, Revenue and Expenditure, or Public Accounts, which may be referred to it by the Council, or to which the Board may think it necessary to call the attention of the Council, and shall have power to require from any public department, board or officer, or other person or party bound by law to furnish the same to the Government, any account, return, statement, document, or information which the Board may deem requisite for the due performance of its duties: and there shall be a Secretary to the Board to be appointed from Secretary. time to time by the Governor during pleasure, and through whom the Board shall communicate with any Public Department, or officer, or other person or party; and such Secretary may or may not, as to the Governor may seem fit, hold any other office in the Civil Service. inconsistent 5. So much of any Act or law as may be inconsistent with Repeal of this Act, or makes any provision in any matter provided for by enactments. this Act other than such as is hereby made, is repealed. W CAP. V. An Act respecting the Ocean Mail Service. [Assented to 22nd June, 1869.] HEREAS under the authority of an Order in Council dated Preamble. the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred Recital of and sixty-nine, a provisional contract has been entered by and contract. between Hugh Allan, Esquire, of the first part, and the Postmaster General of this Dominion, of the second part, for a weekly line of Ocean Mail Steamers, on certain terms and subject to certain conditions therein set forth: and whereas the said agreement is subject to a proviso that the same is to go into effect, if sanctioned and authorized by the Parliament of Čanada, at the then next session thereof and not otherwise; and whereas it is expedient to sanction and confirm the said agreement; therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: 1. The said contract and all the matters and things therein Contract concontained are hereby sanctioned and confirmed, and declared to be effectual to all intents and purposes. CAP. Preamble. What shall be dians. CAP VI. An Act for the gradual enfranchisement of Indians, the H ER Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the 1. In Townships or other tracts of land set apart or reserved deemed lawful for Indians in Canada, and subdivided by survey into lots, no possession of lands by In- Indian or person claiming to be of Indian blood, or intermarried with an Indian family, shall be deemed to be lawfully in possession of any land in such Townships or tracts, unless he or she has been or shall be located for the same by the order of the Superintendent General of Indian affairs; and any such person or persons, assuming possession of any lands of that description, shall be dealt with as illegally in possession, and be liable to be summarily ejected therefrom, unless that within six months from the passing of this Act, a location title be granted to such person or persons by the said Superintendent General of Indian affairs or such officer or person as he may thereunto depute and authorize; but the conferring of any such location title shall not have the effect of rendering the land covered thereby transferable or subject to seizure under legal process. Proceedings to eject parties not lawfully in possession. Penalty on liquors to Indians. 2. Any person liable to be summarily ejected, under the next preceding section, may be removed from the land of which he may have assumed possession, in the manner provided by the eighteenth section of the Act passed in the thirty-first year of Her Majesty's reign, chapter forty-two, with respect to persons other than Indians or those intermarried with Indians settling on the lands therein referred to without license of the Secretary of State; and the said section and the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first sections of the said Act, are hereby extended to and shall apply to persons liable to be summarily ejected under this Act, as fully in all respects as to persons liable to be removed from lands under the said Act. 3. Any person who shall sell, barter, exchange or give to any persons selling Indian man, woman, or child, any kind of spirituous or other intoxicating liquors, or cause or procure the same to be done, or open and keep or cause to be opened and kept, on any land set apart or reserved for Indians a tavern, house or building where spirituous or intoxicating liquors are sold or disposed of, shall, upon conviction in the manner provided by section twelve of the said Act thirty-first Victoria, chapter forty-two, be subject to Imprisonment the fine therein mentioned; and in default of payment such in default of fine, or of any fine imposed by the above mentioned twelfth section of the said Act, any person so offending may be committed to payment. |