The Red River ExpeditionMacmillan, 1871 - 275 pages |
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Page 248 - 15. The presence of a majority of the Members of the Legislative Assembly shall be necessary to constitute a meeting of the House for the exercise of its powers, and for that purpose the Speaker shall be reckoned as a Member. 16. The
Page 244 - AN Act to amend and continue the Act 32 and 33 Victoria, chapter 3, and to establish and provide for the Government of the Province of Manitoba. Whereas it is probable that Her Majesty the Queen may, pursuant to the " British North America Act, 1867,
Page 251 - authority, affecting any right or privilege of the Protestant or Roman Catholic minority of the Queen's subjects in relation to education. (3.) In case any such
Page 253 - accordingly. 30. All ungranted or waste lands in the Province shall be, from and after the date of the said transfer, vested in the Crown, and administered by the Government of Canada for the purposes of the Dominion, subject to and except and so far as the same may be affected by the conditions and stipulations contained in the agreement for the surrender of
Page 251 - these languages shall be used in the respective Records and Journals of those Houses, and either of those languages may be used by any person, or in
Page 255 - common, and rights of cutting hay, held and enjoyed by the settlers in the Province, and for the commutation of the same by grants of land from the Crown. 33. The Governor-General in Council shall from time to time settle and appoint the mode and form of Grants of Land from the Crown, and any Order
Page 86 - under my command. Our mission is one of peace, and the sole object of the Expedition is to secure her Majesty's sovereign authority. Courts of Law, such as are common to every portion of her Majesty's Empire, will be duly established, and justice will be impartially administered to all races and all classes; the loyal Indians
Page 256 - passed in the now last Session thereof, and entitled " An Act for the temporary government of Rupert's Land, and the North-Western Territory when united
Page 245 - of forty-nine degrees north latitude (which forms a portion of the boundary line between the United States of America and the said North-Western Territory) to the meridian of ninety-nine degrees of west longitude, then due north along the said meridian of ninety-nine degrees
Page 255 - this Act. 34. Nothing in this Act shall in any way prejudice or affect the rights or properties of the Hudson's Bay Company, as contained in the conditions under which that company surrendered Rupert's Land to Her Majesty. 35. And with respect to such portion of Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory, as is not included in the Province of Manitoba, it is hereby enacted, that