102. [Creation of Consolidated Revenue Fund.] All Duties and Revenues
over which the respective Legislatures of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New
Brunswick before and at the Union had and have Power of Appropriation,
except such Portions thereof as are by this Act reserved to the
respective Legislatures of the Provinces, or are raised by them in
accordance with the special Powers conferred on them by this Act, shall
form One Consolidated Revenue Fund, to be appropriated for the Public
Service of Canada in the Manner and subject to the Charges in this Act
provided.
103. [Expenses of Collection, &c.] The Consolidated Revenue Fund of
Canada shall be permanently charged with the Costs, Charges, and
Expenses incident to the Collection, Management, and Receipt thereof,
and the same shall form the First Charge thereon, subject to be reviewed
and audited in such Manner as shall be ordered by the Governor General
in Council until the Parliament otherwise provides.
104. [Interest of Provincial Public Debts.] The annual Interest of the
Public Debts of the several Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New
Brunswick at the Union shall form the Second Charge on the Consolidated
Revenue Fund of Canada.
105. [Salary of Governor General.] Unless altered by the Parliament of
Canada, the salary of the Governor General shall be Ten thousand Pounds
Sterling Money of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
payable out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of Canada, and the same
shall form the Third Charge thereon.
106. [Appropriation from time to time.] Subject to the several Payments
by this Act charged on the Consolidated Revenue Fund of Canada, the same
shall be appropriated by the Parliament of Canada for the Public
Service.
107. [Transfer of Stocks, &c.] All Stocks, Cash, Banker's Balances,
and Securities for Money belonging to each Province at the time of the
Union, except as in this Act mentioned, shall be the Property of Canada,
and shall be taken in Reduction of the Amount of the respective Debts
of the Provinces at the Union.
108. [Transfer of Property in Schedule.] The Public Works and Property
of each Province, enumerated in the Third Schedule to this Act, shall
be the Property of Canada.
109. [Property in Lands, Mines, &c.] All Lands, Mines, Minerals, and
Royalties belonging to the several Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia,
and New Brunswick at the Union, and all Sums then due or payable for
such Lands, Mines, Minerals, or Royalties, shall belong to the several
Provinces of Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick in which
the same are situate or arise, subject to any Trusts existing in respect
thereof, and to any Interest other than that of the Province in the
same.
110. [Assets connected with Provincial Debts.] All Assets connected with
such Portions of the Public Debt of each Province as are assumed by that
Province shall belong to that Province.
111. [Canada to be liable for Provincial Debts.] Canada shall be liable
for the Debts and Liabilities of each Province existing at the Union.
112. [Debts of Ontario and Quebec.] Ontario and Quebec conjointly shall
be liable to Canada for the Amount (if any) by which the Debt of the
Province of Canada exceeds at the Union Sixty-two million five hundred
thousand Dollars, and shall be charged with Interest at the Rate of Five
per Centum per Annum thereon.
113. [Assets of Ontario and Quebec.] The Assets enumerated in the Fourth
Schedule to this Act belonging at the Union to the Province of Canada
shall be the Property of Ontario and Quebec conjointly.
114. [Debt of Nova Scotia.] Nova Scotia shall be liable to Canada for
the Amount (if any) by which its Public Debt exceeds at the Union Eight
million Dollars, and shall be charged with Interest at the Rate of Five
per Centum per Annum thereon.
115. [Debt of New Brunswick.] New Brunswick shall be liable to Canada
for the Amount (if any) by which its Public Debt exceeds at the Union
Seven million Dollars, and shall be charged with Interest at the Rate
of Five per Centum per Annum thereon.
116. [Payment of Interest to Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.] In case
the Public Debts of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick do not at the Union
amount to Eight million and Seven million Dollars respectively, they
shall respectively receive by half-yearly Payments in advance from
the Government of Canada Interest at Five per Centum per Annum on the
Difference between the actual Amounts of their respective Debts and
such stipulated Amounts.
117. [Provincial Public Property.] The several Provinces shall retain
all their respective Public Property not otherwise disposed of in this
Act, subject to the Right of Canada to assume any Lands or Public
Property required for Fortifications or for the Defence of the Country.
118. [Grants to Provinces.] The following Sums shall be paid yearly by
Canada to the several Provinces for the Support of their Governments
and Legislatures:
Dollars.
Ontario . . . . . . . . . . Eighty thousand.
Quebec . . . . . . . . . . .Seventy thousand.
Nova Scotia . . . . . . . . Sixty thousand.
New Brunswick . . . . . . . Fifty thousand.
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Two hundred and sixty thousand;
and an annual Grant in aid of each Province shall be made, equal to
Eighty Cents per Head of the Population as ascertained by the Census
of One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, and in the Case of Nova
Scotia and New Brunswick, by each subsequent Decennial Census until
the Population of each of those Two Provinces amounts to Four hundred
thousand Souls, at which Rate such Grant shall thereafter remain. Such
Grants shall be in full Settlement of all future Demands on Canada,
and shall be paid half-yearly in advance to each Province; but the
Government of Canada shall deduct from such Grants, as against any
Province, all Sums chargeable as Interest on the Public Debt of that
Province in excess of the several Amounts stipulated in this Act.
119. [Further Grant to New Brunswick.] New Brunswick shall receive by
half-yearly Payments in advance from Canada for the Period of Ten Years
from the Union an additional Allowance of Sixty-three thousand Dollars
per Annum; but as long as the Public Debt of that Province remains under
Seven million Dollars, a Deduction equal to the Interest at Five per
Centum per Annum on such Deficiency shall be made from that Allowance
of Sixty-three thousand Dollars.
120. [Form of Payments.] All Payments to be made under this Act, or
in discharge of Liabilities created under any Act of the Provinces of
Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick respectively, and assumed by
Canada, shall, until the Parliament of Canada otherwise directs, be
made in such Form and Manner as may from Time to Time be ordered by
the Governor General in Council.
121. [Canadian Manufactures, &c.] All Articles of the Growth, Produce,
or Manufacture of any one of the Provinces shall, from and after the
Union, be admitted free into each of the other Provinces.
122. [Continuance of customs and excise Laws.] The Customs and Excise
Laws of each Province shall, subject to the Provisions of this Act,
continue in force until altered by the Parliament of Canada.
123. [Exportation and Importation as between Two Provinces.] Where
Customs Duties are, at the Union, leviable on any Goods, Wares, or
Merchandises in any Two Provinces, those Goods, Wares, and Merchandises
may, from and after the Union, be imported from one of those Provinces
into the other of them on Proof of Payment of the Customs Duty leviable
thereon in the Province of Exportation, and on Payment of such further
Amount (if any) of Customs Duty as is leviable thereon in the Province
of Importation.
124. [Lumber Dues in New Brunswick.] Nothing in this Act shall affect
the Right of New Brunswick to levy the Lumber Dues provided in Chapter
Fifteen of Title Three of the Revised Statutes of New Brunswick, or in
any Act amending that Act before or after the Union, and not increasing
the Amount of such Dues; but the Lumber of any of the Provinces other
than New Brunswick shall not be subject to such Dues.
125. [Exemption of Public Lands, &c.] No Lands or Property belonging to
Canada or any Province shall be liable to Taxation.
126. [Provincial Consolidated Revenue Fund.] Such Portions of the Duties
and Revenues over which the respective Legislatures of Canada, Nova
Scotia, and New Brunswick had before the Union Power of Appropriation as
are by this Act reserved to the respective Governments or Legislatures
of the Provinces, and all Duties and Revenues raised by them in
accordance with the special Powers conferred upon them by this Act,
shall in each Province form One Consolidated Revenue Fund to be
appropriated for the Public Service of the Province.