(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 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. Further com. pensation. Property in lands, etc. Division of assets and liabilities between Saskatchewan and Alberta. Arbitration. Rights of Provision as to C.P.R. Co. Commencement of Act. The population of the said province being assumed to be at present two hundred and fifty thousand the sum payable until such population reaches four hundred thousand shall be three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars; Thereafter until such population reaches eight hundred thousand, the sum payable shall be five hundred and sixty-two thousand five hundred dollars; Thereafter until such population reaches one million two hundred thousand the sum payable shall be seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. And thereafter the sum payable shall be one million one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. 2. As an additional allowance in lieu of public lands, there shall be paid by Canada to the province annually by half-yearly payments, in advance, for five years, from the time this Act comes into force, to provide for the construction of necessary public buildings, the sum of ninety-three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. 21. All Crown lands, mines and minerals, and royalties incident thereto, and the interest of the Crown in the waters within the province under the North-west Irrigation Act, 1898, shall continue to be vested in the Crown and administered by the Government of Canada, subject to the provisions of any Act of the Parliament of Canada with respect to road allowances and roads or trails in force immediately before the coming into force of this Act, which shall apply to the said province with the substitution therein of the said province for the North-west Territories. 22. All properties and assets of the North-west Territories shall be divided equally between the said province and the province of Saskatchewan, and the two provinces shall be jointly and equally responsible for all debts and liabilities of the North-west Territories: provided that, if any difference arises as to the division and adjustment of such properties, assets, debts, and liabilities, such difference shall be referred to the arbitrament of three arbitrators one of whom shall be chosen by the Lieutenant Governor in Council of each province, and the third by the Governor in Council. The selection of such arbitrators shall not be made until the Legislatures of the provinces have met, and the arbitrator chosen by Canada shall not be resident of either province. 23. Nothing in this Act shall in any way prejudice or affect the rights or properties of the Hudson's Bay Company as contained in_the_conditions under which that Company surrendered Rupert's Land to the Crown. 24. The powers hereby granted to the said province shall be exercised subject to the provisions of section 16 of the contract set forth in the schedule to chapter 1 of the statutes of 1881, being an Act respecting the Canadian Pacific Railway Company. 25. This Act shall come into force on the first day of September, one thousand nine hundred and five. Schedule (not printed.) CLXXXVII THE BRITISH NORTH AMERICA ACT, 1907 (7 Edward VII., c. 11.) An Act to make further provision with respect to the sums to be paid by [9th August, 1907.] Whereas an address has been presented to His Majesty by the Senate and Commons of Canada in the terms set forth in the schedule to this Act: Be it therefore anacted 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: 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 Ca 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 Where the population of the province is one hundred and fifty Where the population of the province is two hundred thousand, but Where the population of the province is four hundred thousand, but Where the population of the province is eight hundred thousand, Where the population of the province exceeds one million five (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 popu lation 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 |