shall have a Vote.

50. [Duration of House of Commons.] Every House of Commons shall
continue for Five Years from the Day of the Return of the Writs for
choosing the House (subject to be sooner dissolved by the Governor
General), and no longer.

51. [Decennial Re-adjustment of Representation.] On the Completion of
the Census in the Year One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, and
of each subsequent decennial Census, the Representation of the Four
Provinces shall be readjusted by such Authority, in such Manner, and
from such Time, as the Parliament of Canada from Time to Time provides,
subject and according to the following Rules:

(1.) Quebec shall have the fixed Number of Sixty-five Members:
(2.) There shall be assigned to each of the other Provinces such a
Number of Members as will bear the same Proportion to the Number
of its Population (ascertained at such Census) as the Number
Sixty-five bears to the Number of the Population of Quebec
(so ascertained):
(3.) In the Computation of the Number of Members for a Province a
fractional Part not exceeding One Half of the whole Number
requisite for entitling the Province to a Member shall be
disregarded; but a fractional Part exceeding One Half of that
Number shall be equivalent to the whole Number:
(4.) On any such Re-adjustment the Number of Members for a Province
shall not be reduced unless the Proportion which the Number of the
Population of the Province bore to the Number of the aggregate
Population of Canada at the then last preceding Re-adjustment of
the Number of Members for the Province is ascertained at the then