84. [Continuance of existing Election Laws.] Until the Legislatures of
Ontario and Quebec respectively otherwise provide, all Laws which at
the Union are in force in those Provinces respectively, 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 Assembly of Canada, the Qualifications or Disqualifications of
Voters, the Oaths to be taken by Voters, the Returning Officers, their
Powers and Duties, the Proceedings at Elections, the Periods during
which such Elections may be continued, and the Trial of controverted
Elections and the Proceedings incident thereto, the vacating of the
Seats of Members and the issuing and execution of new Writs in case of
Seats vacated otherwise than by Dissolution,--shall respectively apply
to Elections of Members to serve in the respective Legislative
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.
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