OATH OF OFFICE OF A JUSTICE OF THE PEACE FOR THE NORTH-WEST TERRITORIES.

I, A.B., of... in the North-West Territories, do swear that I will well and truly serve our Sovereign Lady Queen Victoria in the office of justice of the peace and will do right to all manner of people, after the laws and usages of these Territories, without fear or favour, affection or ill-will.

NOTE. 6-7 Edw. VII. c. 44, an Act to amend Schedule A to the Revised Statutes 1906, is as follows:

1. Schedule A to the Revised Statutes, 1906, is hereby amended by inserting in the third column thereof, headed "Extent of Repeal," the words "except as regards the Provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta" opposite each of the following items:

(a) Revised Statutes of Canada, 1886, chapter 50, An Act respecting the North-West Territories;

(b) 51 Victoria, chapter 19, An Act to amend the Revised Statutes of Canada, chapter 50, respecting the NorthWest Territories;

(c) 54-55 Victoria, chapter 22, An Act to amend the Acts respecting the North-West Territories;

(d) 57-58 Victoria, chapter 17, An Act further to amend the Act respecting the North-West Territories;

(e) 57-58 Victoria, chapter 31, An Act for the preservation of Game in the unorganized portions of the NorthWest Territories of Canada;

(f) 60-61 Victoria, chapter 28, An Act further to amend the Act respecting the North-West Territories;

(g) 60-61 Victoria, chapter 32, An Act respecting Trials by Jury in certain cases in the North-West Territories; (h) 61 Victoria, chapter 5, An Act further to amend the Acts respecting the North-West Territories;

(i) 1 Edward VII, chapter 21, An Act to amend the Unorganized Territories' Game Preservation Act, 1894; (j) 2 Edward VII, chapter 24, An Act further to amend the Act respecting the North-West Territories;

(k) 3 Edward VII, chapter 40, An Act to amend the North-West Territories Act.

2. This Act shall be deemed to have been in force on and since the thirty-first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and seven, and the said schedule A shall be construed as if the words added by this Act had always been therein contained.

THE BRITISH NORTH AMERICA

ACT, 1867

30-31 VICTORIA, CHAPTER 3.

An Act for the Union of Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, and the Government thereof; and for purposes connected therewith.

(March 29, 1867.)

WHEREAS the Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia and

New Brunswick have expressed their desire to be federally united into one Dominion under the Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, with a constitution similar in principle to that of the United Kingdom;

And whereas such an union would conduce to the welfare of the provinces and promote the interests of the British Empire;

And whereas on the establishment of the Union by authority of parliament it is expedient not only that the constitution of the legislative authority in the Dominion be provided for but also that the nature of the executive government therein be declared;

And whereas it is expedient that provision be made for the eventual admission into the Union of other parts of British North America:

Be it therefore enacted and declared by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows:

I. Preliminary.

1. This Act may be cited as "The British North America Act, 1867."

2. The provisions of this Act referring to Her Majesty the Queen extend also to the heirs and successors of Her Majesty, Kings and Queens of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

II.-Union.

3. It shall be lawful for the Queen by and with the advice of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council to declare by proclamation that on and after a day therein appointed not being more than six months after the passing of this Act the provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick shall form and be one Dominion under the name of Canada; and on and after that day those three provinces shall form and be one Dominion under that name accordingly.

4. The subsequent provisions of this Act shall unless it is otherwise expressed or implied commence and have effect on and after the Union, that is to say: on and after the day appointed for the Union taking effect in the Queen's Proclamation; and in the same provisions unless it is otherwise expressed or implied the name Canada shall be taken to mean Canada as constituted under this Act.

5. Canada shall be divided into four provinces, named Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.

6. The parts of the Province of Canada (as it exists at the passing of this Act) which formerly constituted respectively the Provinces of Upper Canada and Lower Canada shall be deemed to be severed and shall form two separate provinces. The part which formerly constituted the Province of Upper Canada shall constitute the Province of Ontario; and the part which formerly constituted the Province of Lower Canada shall constitute the Province of Quebec.

7. The Provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick shall have the same limits as at the passing of this Act.

8. In the general census of the population of Canada which is hereby required to be taken in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one and in every tenth year thereafter the respective populations of the four provinces shall be distinguished.

III. Executive Power.

9. The executive government and authority of and over Canada is hereby declared to continue and be vested in the Queen.

10. The provisions of this Act referring to the governor general extend and apply to the governor general for the time being of Canada or other the chief executive officer

or administrator for the time being carrying on the government of Canada on behalf and in the name of the Queen by whatever title he is designated.

11. There shall be a council to aid and advise in the government of Canada to be styled the Queen's Privy Council for Canada; and the persons who are to be members of that council shall be from time to time chosen and summoned by the governor general and sworn in as privy councillors and members thereof may be from time to time removed by the governor general.

12. All powers, authorities and functions which under any Act of the Parliament of Great Britain or of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland or of the Legislature of Upper Canada, Lower Canada, Canada, Nova Scotia or New Brunswick are at the Union vested in or exercisable by the respective governors or lieutenant governors of those provinces with the advice or with the advice and consent of the respective Executive Councils thereof or in conjunction with those councils or with any number of members thereof or by those governors or lieutenant governors individually shall as far as the same continue in existence and capable of being exercised after the Union in relation to the government of Canada be vested in and exercisable by the governor general with the advice or with the advice and consent of or in conjunction with the Queen's Privy Council for Canada or any members thereof or by the governor general individually, as the case requires, subject nevertheless (except with respect to such as exist under Acts of the Parliament of Great Britain or of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) to be abolished or altered by the Parliament of Canada.

13. The provisions of this Act referring to the Governor General in Council shall be construed as referring to the governor general acting by and with the advice of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada.

14. It shall be lawful for the Queen if Her Majesty thinks fit to authorize the governor general from time to time to appoint any person or any persons jointly or severally to be his deputy or deputies within any part or parts of Canada and in that capacity to exercise during the pleasure of the governor general such of the powers, authorities and functions of the governor general as the governor general deems it necessary or expedient to assign to him or them subject to any limitations or directions expressed or given by the Queen; but the appointment