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The British North America Act, 1867 by Anonymous
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Assemblies of Ontario and Quebec.

Provided that until the Legislature of Ontario otherwise provides, at
any Election for a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for the
District of Algoma, in addition to Persons qualified by the Law of the
Province of Canada to vote, every male British Subject, aged Twenty-one
Years or upwards, being a Householder, shall have a Vote.

85. [Duration of Legislative Assemblies.] Every Legislative Assembly of
Ontario and every Legislative Assembly of Quebec shall continue for Four
Years from the Day of the Return of the Writs for choosing the same
(subject nevertheless to either the Legislative Assembly of Ontario
or the Legislative Assembly of Quebec being sooner dissolved by the
Lieutenant Governor of the Province), and no longer.

86. [Yearly Session of Legislature.] There shall be a session of the
Legislature of Ontario and of that of Quebec once at least in every
Year, so that Twelve Months shall not intervene between the last Sitting
of the Legislature in each Province in one Session and its first Sitting
in the next Session.

87. [Speaker, Quorum, &c.] The following Provisions of this Act
respecting the House of Commons of Canada shall extend and apply to
the Legislative Assemblies of Ontario and Quebec, that is to say,--the
Provisions relating to the Election of a Speaker originally and on
Vacancies, the Duties of the Speaker, the Absence of the Speaker, the
Quorum, and the Mode of voting, as if those Provisions were here
re-enacted and made applicable in Terms to each such Legislative
Assembly.

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