John A. Macdonald Fonds, Drafts of the British North America Act, 1867 [Scrap Resolution: Draft of Section 26 amending Quebec Resolution Clause 8] (January 1867)
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Date: 1867
By: Hewitt Bernard, John A. Macdonald, British North American Delegates
Citation: John A. Macdonald Fonds, Drafts of the British North America Act, 1867 [Scrap Resolution: Draft of Section 26 amending Quebec Resolution Clause 8], 1867 (MG 26 A, Vol. 47/1, p. 18295).
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18295
Resolved,
As to the opinion of the Conference that to [illegible] be adopted [illegible] serious conflict that may rise between the two Branches of the Legislatures. The 8th Section of the Quebec Resolutions that power of shall be should be so amended as to give power either to the General Government on [illegible] by a joint ballot of the two branches of the Local Legislatures, to appoint or select not exceeding [Blank] [illegible] add members of the Legislative Council an equal number being appointed or selected from each division. The original number to be returned to, as vacancies occur, [illegible] in each of the [illegible] local divisions.