Documents Illustrative of the Canadian ConstitutionCarswell, 1891 - 338 pages |
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Page 323 - and of all persons voted for as Vice President, and of the number of votes for each ; which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of government of the United States, directed to the President nf the Senate. The President of the Senate
Page 323 - President and Vice President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same State with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice President, and they shall make distinct lists of
Page 262 - of Newfoundland : also in the gulph of St. Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea, where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish. And also that the inhabitants of the United States shall have liberty to take fish of every kind on such part of the coast of Newfoundland,
Page 199 - peace, order, and good government of Canada. Canada, in relation to all matters not coming within the classes of subjects by this Act assigned exclusively to the Legislatures of the Provinces; and for greater certainty, but not so as to restrict the generality of the foregoing terms of this section, it is hereby declared that (notwithstanding anything in this Act) the
Page 319 - of the person attainted. ARTICLE IV. Section 1. Full faith and credit shall be given in each State to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other State. And the Congress may by general laws prescribe the manner in which such acts, records and proceedings shall be proved, and the effect thereof. Section 2. The citizens of each State
Page 105 - I, AB, do utterly testify and declare in my conscience, that the Queen's Highness is the only Supreme Governor of this realm, and of all other her Highness'' " dominions and countries, as well in all spiritual or ecclesiastical things or causes, '• as temporal; and that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state or potentate, hath " or ought to have any jurisdiction, power, superiority,
Page 261 - viz., that angle which is formed by a line drawn due north, from the source of Saint Croix river to the Highlands. along the said Highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to
Page 201 - or municipal purposes.** 10. Local works and undertakings other than such as are of the following classes,— a. Lines of steam or other ships, railways, canals, telegraphs, and other works and undertakings connecting the Province with any other or others of the Provinces, or eitending beyond the limits of the Province
Page 317 - votes of the Electors shall be the Vice-President. But if there should remain two or more who have equal votes, the Senate shall chuse from them by ballot the Vice-President. 5 The Congress may determine the time of
Page 9 - An Act for the further security of his Majesty's Person and Government and the succession of the Crown in the Heirs of the late Princess Sophia being Protestants, and for extinguishing the hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales and his open and secret abettors,