  Source.—Documents Illustrative of the Canadian Constitution, edited by William Houston. Toronto, 1891. Whereas it is necessary that provision be made for the good government of the provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, in such manner as may secure the rights and liberties and promote the interests of all classes of her Majesty's subjects within the same: And whereas to this end it is expedient that the said provinces be reunited to form one province for the purposes of executive government and legislation.... III. ... from and after the reunion of the said two provinces there shall be within the Province of Canada one Legislative Council and one Assembly.... IV. ... for the purpose of composing the Legislative Council ... it shall be lawful for her Majesty ... to authorise the Governor in her Majesty's name, by an instru V. ... every member of the Legislative Council ... shall hold his seat therein for the term of his life.... XII. ... in the Legislative Assembly ... the parts of the said Province which now constitute the provinces of Upper and Lower Canada respectively, shall ... be represented by an equal number of representatives to be elected for the places and in the manner hereinafter mentioned.... XXXI. ... there shall be a session of the Legislative Council and Assembly ... once at least in every year ... every Legislative Assembly ... shall continue for four years from the day of the return of the writs for choosing the same, and no longer, subject nevertheless to be sooner prorogued or dissolved by the Governor of the said Province. (Compare with IV. the Amendment Act of 1854.) It shall be lawful for the Legislature of Canada ... to alter the manner of composing the Legislative Council ... and to make it consist of such number of members appointed or to be appointed or elected by such persons and in such manner as to the said Legislature may seem fit.... (In accordance with this enabling Act of Parliament, a Canadian Act for making the Council elective was passed in 1856.) |
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