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 33. The General Government shall appoint and pay the Judges of the Superior Courts in each Province, and of the County Courts in Upper Canada, and Parliament shall fix their salaries.

34. Until the Consolidation of the Laws of Upper Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island, the Judges of these Provinces appointed by the General Government shall be selected from their respective Bars.

35. The Judges of the Courts of Lower Canada shall be selected from the Bar of Lower Canada.

36. The Judges of the Court of Admiralty now receiving salaries shall be paid by the General Government.

37. The Judges of the Superior Courts shall hold their offices during good behaviour, and shall be removable only on the Address of both Houses of Parliament.

38. For each of the Provinces there shall be an Executive Officer, styled the Lieutenant Governor, who shall be appointed by the Governor General in Council, under the Great Seal of the Federated Provinces, during pleasure: such pleasure not to be exercised before the expiration of the first five years except for cause: such cause to be communicated in writing to the Lieutenant Governor immediately after the exercise of the pleasure as aforesaid, and also by Message to both Houses of Parliament, within the first week of the first Session afterwards.

39. The Lieutenant Governor of each Province shall be paid by the General Government.

40. In undertaking to pay the salaries of the Lieutenant Governors, the Conference does not desire to prejudice the claim of Prince Edward Island upon the Imperial Government for the amount now paid for the salary of the Lieutenant Governor thereof.

41. The Local Government and Legislature of each Province shall be constructed in such manner as the existing Legislature of each Province shall provide.

42. The Local Legislature shall have power to alter or amend their constitution from time to time.

43. The Local Legislature shall have power to make laws respecting the following subjects:


 * 1) Direct taxation, and in New Brunswick the imposition of duties on the Export of Timber, Logs, Masts, Spars, Deals and Sawn Lumber; and in Nova Scotia, of Coal and other minerals.
 * 2) Borrowing money on the credit of the Province.
 * 3) The establishment and tenure of local offices, and the appointment and payment of local officers.
 * 4) Agriculture.
 * 5) Immigration.
 * 6) Education; saving the rights and privileges which the Protestant or Catholic minority in both Canadas may possess as to their Denominational Schools, at the time when the Union goes into operation.
 * 7) The sale and management of Public Lands excepting Lands belonging to the General Government.
 * 8) Sea Coast and Inland Fisheries.
 * 9) The establishment, maintenance and management of Penitentiaries, and of Public and Reformatory Prisons.
 * 10) The establishment, maintenance and management of Hospitals, Asylums, Charities, and Eleemosynary Institutions.
 * 11) Municipal Institutions.
 * 12) Shop, Saloon, Tavern, Auctioner and other Licences.
 * 13) Local Works.
 * 14) The Incorporation of Private or Local Companies, except such as relate to matters assigned to the General Parliament.
 * 15) Property and civil rights, excepting those portions thereof assigned to the General Parliament.
 * 16) Inflicting punishment by fine, penalties, imprisonment or otherwise, for the breach of laws passed in relation to any subject within their jurisdiction.
 * 17) The Administration of Justice, including the Constitution, maintenance and organization of the Courts, -- both of Civil and Criminal Jurisdiction, and including also the Procedure in Civil matters.
 * 18) And generally all matters of a private or local nature, not assigned to the General Parliament.

44. The power or respiting, reprieving, and pardoning Prisoners convicted of crimes, and of commuting and remitting of sentences in whole or in part, which belongs of right