Canada to

1. (1) The following grants shall be made yearly by Canada to every Payments to province, which at the commencement of this Act is a province of the be made by Dominion, for its local purposes and the support of its Government and provinces. Legislature:

(a) A fixed grant

Where the population of the province is under one hundred and fifty
thousand, of one hundred thousand dollars;

Where the population of the province is one hundred and fifty
thousand, but does not exceed two hundred thousand, of one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars;

Where the population of the province is two hundred thousand, but
does not exceed four hundred thousand, of one hundred and
eighty thousand dollars;

Where the population of the province is four hundred thousand, but
does not exceed eight hundred thousand, of one hundred and
ninety thousand dollars;

Where the population of the province is eight hundred thousand,
but does not exceed one million five hundred thousand, of two
hundred and twenty thousand dollars;

Where the population of the province exceeds one million five
hundred thousand, of two hundred and forty thousand dollars;
and
(b) Subject to the special provisions of this Act as to the provinces
of British Columbia and Prince Edward Island, a grant at the
rate of eighty cents per head of the population of the province
up to the number of two million five hundred thousand, and at
the rate of sixty cents per head of so much of the population as
exceeds that number.

(2) An additional grant of one hundred thousand dollars shall be made yearly to the province of British Columbia for a period of ten years from the commencement of this Act.

(3) The population of a province shall be ascertained from time to time in the case of the provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta respectively by the last quinquennial census of statutory estimate,of population made under the Acts establishing those provinces or any other Act of the Parliament of Canada making provision for the purpose, and in the case of any other province by the last decennial census for the time being. (4) The grants payable under this Act shall be paid half-yearly in advance to each province.

(5) The grants payable under this Act shall be substituted for the grants or subsidies (in this Act referred to as existing grants) payable for the like purposes at the commencement of this Act to the several provinces of the Dominion under the provisions of section one hundred and eighteen of the British North America Act, 1867, or of any Order in Council establishing a province, or of any Act of the Parliament of Canada containing directions for the payment of any such grant or subsidy, and those provisions shall cease to have effect.

(6) The Government of Canada shall have the same power of deducting sums charged against a province on account of the interest on public debt in the case of the grant payable under this Act to the province as they have in the case of the existing grant.

(7) Nothing in this Act shall affect the obligation of the Government of Canada to pay to any province any grant which is payable to that province, other than the existing grant for which the grant under this Act is substituted.

(8) In the case of the provinces of British Columbia and Prince Edward Island, the amount paid on account of the grant payable per head of the population to the provinces under this Act shall not at any time be less than the amount of the corresponding grant payable at the commencement of this Act; and if it is found on any decennial census that the population of the province has decreased since the last decennial census, the

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amount paid on account of the grant shall not be decreased below the amount then payable, notwithstanding the decrease of the population.

2. This Act may be cited as the British North America Act, 1907, and shall take effect as from the first day of July nineteen hundred and seven.

CLXXXVIII

THE BRITISH NORTH AMERICA ACT, 1915.

(5 & 6 George V, c. 45.)

(19th May, 1915.)

Be it enacted by the King'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:

1.-(1) Notwithstanding anything in the British North America Act, 1867, or in any Act amending the same, or in any Order in Council or terms or conditions of union made or approved under the said Acts or in any Act of the Canadian Parliament

(i) The number of senators provided for under section twenty-one of
the British North America Act, 1867, is increased from seventy-
two to ninety-six :

(ii) The Divisions of Canada in relation to the constitution of the
Senate provided for by section twenty-two of the said Act are
increased from three to four, the fourth division to comprise the
Western Provinces of Manitoba, British Columbia, Saskatchewar,
and Alberta, which four Divisions shall (subject to the provisions
of the said Act and of this Act) be equally represented in the
Senate, as follows:-Ontario by twenty-four senators; Quebec
by twenty-four senators; the Maritime Provinces and Prince Ed-
ward Island by twenty-four senators, ten thereof representing
Nova Scotia, ten thereof representing New Brunswick, and four
thereof representing Prince Edward Island; the Western Pro-
vinces by twenty-four senators, six thereof representing Mani-
toba, six thereof representing British Columbia, six thereof rep-
resenting Saskatchewan, and six thereof representing Alberta :
(iii) The number of persons whom by section twenty-six of the said
Act the Governor-General of Canada may, upon the direction of
His Majesty the King, add to the Senate is increased from three
or six to four or eight, representing equally the four divisions of
Canada:
(iv) In case of such addition being at any time made the Governor-
General of Canada shall not summon any person to the Senate
except upon a further like direction by His Majesty the King or
the like recommendation to represent one of the four Divisions
until such Division is represented by twenty-four senators and

no more:

(v) The number of senators shall not at any time exceed one hundred and four:

(vi) The representation in the Senate to which by section one hundred and forty-seven of the British North America Act, 1867, Newfoundland would be entitled, in case of its admission to the Union is increased from four to six members, and in case of the admission of Newfoundland into the Union, notwithstanding anything in the said Act or in this Act, the normal number of senators shall be one hundred and two, and their maximum number one hundred and ten:

(vii) Nothing herein contained shall affect the powers of the Canadian Parliament under the British North America Act, 1886.

(2) Paragraphs (i) to (vi) inclusive of subsection (1) of this section shall not take effect before the termination of the now existing Canadian

Parliament.

of House of

2. The British North America Act, 1867, is amended by adding thereto Constitution the following section immediately after section fifty-one of the said Act:-Commons. 51A. Notwithstanding anything in this Act, a province shall always be

entitled to a number of members in the House of Commons not
less than the number of senators representing such province.

3. This Act may be cited as the British North America Act, 1915; and Short title. the British North America Acts, 1867 to 1886, and this Act may be cited together as the British North America Acts, 1867 to 1915.