oses of this Act an Electoral District entitled
to return One Member.

3.--NOVA SCOTIA.

Each of the Eighteen Counties of Nova Scotia shall be an Electoral
District. The County of Halifax shall be entitled to return Two Members,
and each of the other Counties One Member.

4.--NEW BRUNSWICK.

Each of the Fourteen Counties into which New Brunswick is divided,
including the City and County of St. John, shall be an Electoral
District; The City of St. John shall also be a separate Electoral
District. Each of those Fifteen Electoral Districts shall be entitled
to return One Member.

41. [Continuance of existing Election Laws until Parliament of Canada
otherwise provides.] Until the Parliament of Canada otherwise provides,
all Laws in force in the several Provinces at the Union relative to
the following Matters or any of them, namely,--the Qualifications and
Disqualifications of Persons to be elected or to sit or vote as Members
of the House of Assembly or Legislative Assembly in the several
Provinces, the Voters at Elections of such Members, the Oaths to be
taken by Voters, the Returning Officers, their Powers and Duties, the
Proceedings at Elections, the Periods during which Elections may be
continued, the Trial of controverted Elections, and Proceedings incident
thereto, the vacating of Seats of Members, and the Execution of new
Writs in case of Seats vacated otherwise than by Dissolution,--shall
respectively apply to Elections of Members to serve in the House of
Commons for the same several Provinces.

Provided that, until the Parliament of Canada otherwise provides, at
any Election for a Member of the House of Commons 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.

42. [Writs for First Election.] For the First Election of Members to
serve in the House of Commons the Governor General shall cause Writs to
be issued by such Person, in such Form, and addressed to such Returning
Officers as he thinks fit.

The Person issuing Writs under this Section shall have the like Powers
as are possessed at the Union by the Officers charged with the issuing
of Writs for the Election of Members to serve in the respective House of
Assembly or Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, Nova Scotia,
or New Brunswick; and the Returning Officers to whom Writs are directe