81. [First Session of Legislatures.] The Legislatures of Ontario and
Quebec respectively shall be called together not later than Six Months
after the Union.
82. [Summoning of Legislative Assemblies.] The Lieutenant Governor of
Ontario and of Quebec shall from Time to Time, in the Queen's Name,
by Instrument under the Great Seal of the Province, summon and call
together the Legislative Assembly of the Province.
83. [Restriction on election of holders of offices.] Until the
Legislature of Ontario or of Quebec otherwise provides, a Person
accepting or holding in Ontario or in Quebec any Office, Commission, or
Employment, permanent or temporary, at the Nomination of the Lieutenant
Governor, to which an annual Salary, or any Fee, Allowance, Emolument,
or profit of any Kind or Amount whatever from the Province is attached,
shall not be eligible as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of the
respective Province, nor shall he sit or vote as such; but nothing in
this Section shall make ineligible any Person being a Member of the
Executive Council of the respective Province, or holding any of the
following Offices, that is to say, the Offices of Attorney General,
Secretary and Registrar of the Province, Treasurer of the Province,
Commissioner of Crown Lands, and Commissioner of Agriculture and Public
Works, and in Quebec Solicitor General, or shall disqualify him to sit
or vote in the House for which he is elected, provided he is elected
while holding such Office.
84. [Continuance of existing Election Laws.] Until the Legislatures of
Ontario and Quebec respectively otherwise provide, all Laws which at
the Union are in force in those Provinces respectively, relative to
the following Matters, or any of them, namely,--the Qualifications and
Disqualifications of Persons to be elected or to sit or vote as Members
of the Assembly of Canada, the Qualifications or Disqualifications of
Voters, the Oaths to be taken by Voters, the Returning Officers, their
Powers and Duties, the Proceedings at Elections, the Periods during
which such Elections may be continued, and the Trial of controverted
Elections and the Proceedings incident thereto, the vacating of the
Seats of Members and the issuing and execution of new Writs in case of
Seats vacated otherwise than by Dissolution,--shall respectively apply
to Elections of Members to serve in the respective Legislative
Assemblies of Ontario and Quebec.
Provided that until the Legislature of Ontario otherwise provides, at
any Election for a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for the
District of Algoma, in addition to Persons qualified by the Law of the
Province of Canada to vote, every male British Subject, aged Twenty-one
Years or upwards, being a Householder, shall have a Vote.
85. [Duration of Legislative Assemblies.] Every Legislative Assembly of
Ontario and every Legislative Assembly of Quebec shall continue for Four
Years from the Day of the Return of the Writs for choosing the same
(subject nevertheless to either the Legislative Assembly of Ontario
or the Legislative Assembly of Quebec being sooner dissolved by the
Lieutenant Governor of the Province), and no longer.
86. [Yearly Session of Legislature.] There shall be a session of the
Legislature of Ontario and of that of Quebec once at least in every
Year, so that Twelve Months shall not intervene between the last Sitting
of the Legislature in each Province in one Session and its first Sitting
in the next Session.
87. [Speaker, Quorum, &c.] The following Provisions of this Act
respecting the House of Commons of Canada shall extend and apply to
the Legislative Assemblies of Ontario and Quebec, that is to say,--the
Provisions relating to the Election of a Speaker originally and on
Vacancies, the Duties of the Speaker, the Absence of the Speaker, the
Quorum, and the Mode of voting, as if those Provisions were here
re-enacted and made applicable in Terms to each such Legislative
Assembly.