3.--ONTARIO AND QUEBEC.
81. [First Session of Legislatures.] The Legislatures of Ontario and
Quebec respectively shall be called together not later than Six Months
after the Union.
82. [Summoning of Legislative Assemblies.] The Lieutenant Governor of
Ontario and of Quebec shall from Time to Time, in the Queen's Name,
by Instrument under the Great Seal of the Province, summon and call
together the Legislative Assembly of the Province.
83. [Restriction on election of holders of offices.] Until the
Legislature of Ontario or of Quebec otherwise provides, a Person
accepting or holding in Ontario or in Quebec any Office, Commission, or
Employment, permanent or temporary, at the Nomination of the Lieutenant
Governor, to which an annual Salary, or any Fee, Allowance, Emolument,
or profit of any Kind or Amount whatever from the Province is attached,
shall not be eligible as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of the
respective Province, nor shall he sit or vote as such; but nothing in
this Section shall make ineligible any Person being a Member of the
Executive Council of the respective Province, or holding any of the
following Offices, that is to say, the Offices of Attorney General,
Secretary and Registrar of the Province, Treasurer of the Province,
Commissioner of Crown Lands, and Commissioner of Agriculture and Public
Works, and in Quebec Solicitor General, or shall disqualify him to sit
or vote in the House for which he is elected, provided he is elected
while holding such Office.
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