VICTORIA, CHAPTER

An Act for the Union of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Branswick, and the Government

thereof: and for Purposes connected therewith.

[29th March, 1867.]

WHEREAS the Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick have ex-

Pressed their Desire to be federally united into One Dominion under the Crown of the » with a Constitution similar in Principle

to that of the United Kingdom :

And whereas such

ne mon oUld conduee to the Welfare of the Provinces and promote the Interests of the British Empire

arr pue cCommend-n-Chief of the Land and Naval Militia, and of and Queens” "0% 0f and In Canada, js hereby declared 10 continue and Le ane ral 204 Queen

Powers of the Parliament.

91. It shall be lawful for the Queen, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Sonate and House of Commons, to make Laws for the Peace, Order, and good Government of Canada, in relation to all Matters not coming within the Classes of Subjects by this Act assigned exclusively to the Legislatüres of the Provinces ; and for greater Certainty, but not so as to restrict the Generality of the foregoing Terms of this Section, it is hereby declared that (notwithstanding anything in this Act) the exclusive de Clans aiment} 0f the Parliament of Canada extends te al] Moto on ner te

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