Constitution Act, 1907 (annotated)

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Constitution Act, 1907
 * 1. Payments to be made by Canada to Provinces.
 * 2. Short title.

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Whereas an address has been presented to His Majesty by the Senate and Commons of Canada in the terms set forth in the schedule of this Act:

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:—

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Most Gracious Sovereign,

We, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Senate and Commons of Canada, in Parliament assembled, humbly approach Your Majesty for the purpose of representing that: is expedient to amend the scale of payments authorized under section 118 of the Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, commonly called the Constitution Act, 1867, or by or under any terms or conditions upon which any other province were admitted to the Union, to be made by Canada to the several provinces of the Dominion for the support of their Governments and Legislatures by providing that--

A. Instead of the amounts now payable, the sums hereafter payable yearly by Canada to the several provinces for the support of their Governments and Legislatures be according to population, and as follows:--


 * (a) Where the population of the province is under 150,000, $100,000;
 * (b) Where the population of the province is 150,000, but does not exceed 200,000, $150,000;
 * (c) Where the population of the province is 200,000, but does not exceed 400,000, $180,000;
 * (d) Where the population of the province is 400,000, but does not exceed 800,000, $190,000;
 * (e) Where the population of the province is 800,000, but does not exceed 1,500,000, $220,000;
 * (f) Where the population of the province exceeds 1,500,000, $240,000;

B. Instead of an annual grant per head of population now allowed, the annual payment hereafter be at the same rate of eighty cents per head, but on the population of each province, as ascertained from time to time by the last decennial census, or in the case of the provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta respectively, by the last quinquennial census or statutory estimate, until such population exceeds 2,500,000, and at the rate of sixty cents per head for so much of said population as may exceed 2,500,000.

C. An additional allowance to the extent of one hundred thousand dollars annually be paid for ten years to the province of British Columbia.

D. Nothing herein contained shall in any way supersede or affect the terms special to any particular province upon which such province became part of the Dominion of Canada, or the right of any province to the payment of any special grant heretofore made by the Parliament of Canada to any province for any special purpose in such grant expressed.

We pray that Your Majesty may be graciously pleased to cause a measure to be laid before the Imperial Parliament at its present Session repealing the provisions of section 118 of the Constitution Act, 1867, aforesaid, and substituting therefor the scale of payments above set forth, which shall be a final and unalterable settlement of the amounts to be paid yearly to the several provinces of the Dominion for their local purposes, and the support of their Governments and Legislatures.

Such grants 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 the said Act.

All of which we humbly pray Your Majesty to take into your favourable and gracious consideration.

(Signed) R. DANDURAND,

Speaker of the Senate.

(Signed) R. F. SUTHERLAND,

Speaker of the House of Commons.

Senate and House of Commons,

Ottawa, Canada,

26th April, 1907.