IV.  Amerika.  1378  246.  Canada.

82.  The  lieutenant-governor  of  Ontario  and  of  Quebec  shall,  from  time  to
time,  in  the  queen’s  name,  by  instrument  under  the  great  seal  of  the  province,
summon  and  call  together  the  legislative  assembly  of  the  province.

83.  Until  the  legislature  of  Ontario  or  of  Quebec  otherwise  provides,  a  person
accepting  or  holding  in  Ontario,  or  in  Quebec,  any  office,  commission  or  employment,
permanent  or  temporary,  at  the  nomination  of  the  lieutenant-governor,  to  which
an  annual  salary,  or  any  fee,  allowance,  emolument  or  profit  of  any  kind  or  amount
whatever  from  the  province  is  attached,  shall  not  be  eligible  as  a  member  of  the
legislative  assembly  of  the  respective  province,  nor  shall  be  sit  or  vote  as  such;  but
nothing  in  this  section  shall  make  ineligible  any  person  being  a  member  of  the  executive
  council  of  the  respective  province,  or  holding  any  of  the  following  offices,
that  is  to  say:  the  offices  of  attorney-general,  secretary  and  registrar  of  the  province,
treasurer  of  the  province,  commissioner  of  crown  lands,  and  commissioner  of  agriculture
  and  public  works,  and  in  Quebec,  solicitor-general,  or  shall  disqualify  him
to  sit  or  vote  in  the  house  for  which  he  is  elected,  provided  he  is  elected  while
holding  such  office.

84.  Until  the  legislatures  of  Ontario  and  Quebec  respectively  otherwise  provide,
all  laws  which  at  the  union  are  in  force  in  those  provinces  respectively,  relative  to
the  following  matters  or  any  of  them,  namely,  —  the  qualifications  or  disqualifications
of  persons  to  be  elected  or  to  sit  or  vote  as  members  of  the  assembly  of  Canada,  the
qualifications  or  disqualifications’  of  voters,  the  oaths  to  be  taken  by  voters,  the
returning  officers,  their  powers  and  duties,  the  proceedings  at  elections,  the  periods
during  which  such  elections  may  be  continued,  and  the  trial  of  controverted  elections
and  the  proceedings  incident  thereto,  the  vacating  of  the  seats  of  members,  and  the
issuing  and  execution  of  new  writs  in  case  of  seats  vacated  otherwise  than  by
dissolution,  —  shall  respectively  apply  to  elections  of  members  to  serve  in  the
respective  legislative  assemblies  of  Ontario  and  Quebec.

Provided  that  until  the  legislature  of  Ontario  otherwise  provides,  at  any  election
for  a  member  of  the  legislative  assembly  of  Ontario  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  years  or  upwards,  being  a  householder,  shall
have  a  vote.

85.  Every  legislative  assembly  of  Ontario  and  every  legislative  assembly  of
Quebec  shall  continue  for  four  years  from  the  day  of  the  return  of  the  writs  for
choosing  the  same  (subject,  nevertheless,  to  either  the  legislative  assembly  of  Ontario,
or  the  legislative  assembly  of  Quebec  being  sooner  dissolved  by  the  lieutenant-governor
of  the  province),  and  no  longer.

86.  There  shall  be  a  session  of  the  legislature  of  Ontario  and  of  that  of  Quebec
once  at  least  in  every  year  so  that  twelve  months  shall  not  intervene  between  the
last  sitting  of  the  legislature  in  each  province  in  one  session  and  its  first  sitting  in
the  next  session.

87.  The  following  provisions  of  this  act  respecting  the  house  of  commons  of
Canada,  shall  extend  and  apply  to  the  legislative  assemblies  of  Ontario  and  Quebec,