IV.  Amerika.  1390  246.  Canada.

not  included  in  any  province  thereof,  and  may  at  the  time  of  such  establishment,
make  provision  for  the  constitution  and  administration  of  any  such  province,  and
for  the  passing  of  laws  for  the  peace,  order  and  good  government  of  such  province,
and  for  its  representation  in  the  said  parliament.

3.  The  parliament  of  Canada  may  from  time  to  time,  with  the  consent  of  the
legislature  of  any  province  of  the  said  Dominion,  increase,  diminish  or  otherwise
alter  the  limits  of  such  province,  upon  such  terms  and  conditions  as  may  be  agreed
to  by  the  said  legislature,  and  may,  with  the  like  consent,  make  provision  respecting
the  effect  and  operation  of  any  such  increase  or  diminution  or  alteration  of  territory
in  relation  to  any  province  effected  thereby.

4.  The  parliament  of  Canada  may  from  time  to  time  make  provision  for  the
administration,  peace,  order  and  good  government  of  any  territory  not  for  the  time
being  included  in  any  province.

5.  The  following  acts  passed  by  the  said  parliament  of  Canada,  and  intituled
respectively:  “An  act  for  the  temporary  government  of  Rupert’s  Land  and  the
Northwestern  Territory  when  united  with  Canada”,  and  “An  act  to  amend  and
continue  the  act  thirty-two  and  thirty-three  Victoria,  chapter  three,  and  to  establish
and  provide  for  the  government  of  the  province  of  Manitoba”,  shall  be  and  be  deemed
to  have  been  valid  and  effectual  for  all  purposes  whatsoever  from  the  date  at  which
they  respectively  received  the  assent,  in  the  queen’s  name,  of  the  governor-general
of  the  said  Dominion  of  Canada.

6.  Except  as  provided  by  the  third  section  of  this  act,  it  shall  not  be  competent
for  the  parliament  of  Canada  to  alter  the  provisions  of  the  last  mentioned  act  of  the
said  parliament,in  so  far  as  it  relates  to  the  province  of  Manitoba,  or  ofany  otheract
hereafter  establishing  new  provinces  in  the  said  Dominion,  subject  always  to  the
right  of  the  legislature  of  the  province  of  Manitoba  to  alter  from  time  to  time  the
provisions  of  any  law  respecting  the  qualification  of  electors  and  members  of  the
legislative  assembly,  and  to  make  laws  respecting  elections  in  the  said  province.

The  Parliament  of  Canada  Act,  1875.
(July  19,  1875.)
An  Act  to  remove  doubts  with  respect  to  the  powers  of  the  Parliament  of  Canada
under  section  eighteen  of  the  British  North  America  Act,  1867.

Whereas  by  section  eighteen  of  the  British  North  America  Act,  1867,  it  is
provided  as  follows:

“The  privileges,  immunities  and  powers  to  be  held,  enjoyed  and  exercised  by
the  senate  and  by  the  house  of  commons,  and  by  the  members  thereof  respectively,
shall  be  such  as  are  from  time  to  time  defined  by  act  of  parliament  of  Canada,  but
so  that  the  same  shall  never  exceed  those  at  the  passing  of  this  act,  held,  enjoyed
and  exercised  by  the  common  house  of  parliament  of  the  united  kingdom  of  Great
Britain  and  Ireland  and  by  the  members  thereof.”

And  whereas  doubts  have  arisen  with  regards  to  the  power  of  defining  by  an
act  of  the  parliament  of  Canada,  in  pursuance  of  the  said  section,  the  said  privileges,
powers,  or  immunities;  and  it  is  expedient  to  remove  such  doubts: