IV.  Amerika.  1373  246.  Canada.

shall  also  be  a  separate  electoral  district.  Each  of  those  fifteen  electoral  distriets
shall  be  entitled  to  return  one  member.

41.  Until  the  parliament  of  Canada  otherwise  provides,  all  laws  in  force  in
the  several  provinces  at  the  union  relative  to  the  following  matters  or  any  of  them,
namely,  —  the  qualifications  and  disqualifications  of  persons  to  be  elected  or  to  sit
or  vote  as  members  of  the  house  of  assembly  or  legislative  assembly  in  the  several
provinces,  the  voters  at  elections  of  such  members,  the  oaths  to  be  taken  by  voters,
the  returning  officers,  their  powers  and  duties,  the  proceedings  at  elections,  the
periods  during  which  elections  may  be  continued,  the  trial  of  controverted  elections,
and  proceedings  incident  thereto,  the  vacating  of  seats  of  members,  and  the  execution
of  new  writs  in  case  of  seats  vacated  otherwise  than  by  dissolution,  —  shall
respectively  apply  to  elections  of  members  to  serve  in  the  house  of  commons  for  the
same  several  provinces.

Provided  that,  until  the  parliament  of  Canada  otherwise  provides,  at  any
election  for  a  member  of  the  house  of  commons  for  the  district  of  Algoma,  in  addition
  to  persons  qualified  by  the  law  of  the  province  of  Canada  to  vote,  every  male
British  subject,  aged  twenty-one  yearsor  upwards,  being  a  house-holder,  shallhavea  vote.

42.  For  the  first  election  of  members  to  serve  in  the  house  of  commons  the
governor-general  shall  cause  writs  to  be  issued  by  such  person,  in  such  form  and
addressed  to  such  returning  officers  as  he  thinks  fit.

The  persons  issuing  writs  under  this  section  shall  have  the  like  powers  as  are
possessed  at  the  union  by  the  officers  charged  with  the  issuing  of  writs  for  the
election  of  members  to  serve  in  therespective  house  of  assembly  or  legislative  assembly
of  the  province  of  Canada,  Nova  Scotia  or  New  Brunswick,  and  the  returning  officers
to  whom  writs  are  directed  under  this  section  shall  have  the  like  powers  as  are
possessed  at  the  union  by  the  officers  charged  with  the  returning  of  writs  for  the  electino
of  members  to  serve  in  the  same  respective  house  of  assembly  or  legislative  assembly.

43.  In  case  a  vacancy  in  the  representation  in  the  house  of  commons  of  any
electoral  district  happens  before  the  meeting  of  the  parliament  or  after  the  meeting
of  the  parliament  before  provision  is  made  by  the  parliament  in  this  behalf,  the
provisions  of  the  last  foregoing  section  of  this  act  shall  extent  and  apply  to  the
issuing  and  returning  of  a  writ  in  respect  of  such  vacant  district.

44.  The  house  of  commons,  on  its  first  assembling  after  a  general  election,
shall  proceed  with  all  practicable  speed  to  elect  one  of  its  members  to  be  speaker.

45.  In  case  of  a  vacany  happening  in  the  office  of  speaker,  by  death,  resignation
or  otherwise,  the  house  of  commons  shall  with  all  practicable  speed,  proceed  to  eleot
another  of  its  members  to  be  speaker.

46.  The  speaker  shall  preside  at  all  meetings  of  the  house  of  commons.

47.  Until  the  parliament  of  Canada  otherwise  provides,  in  case  of  the  absence
for  any  reason,  of  the  speaker  from  the  chair  of  the  house  of  commons  for  a  period
of  forty-eight  consecutive  hours,  the  house  may  elect  another  of  its  members  to  act
as  speaker,  and  the  member  so  elected  shall,  during  the  continuance  of  such  absence
of  the  speaker,  have  and  execute  all  the  powers,  privileges  and  duties  of  speaker,  .