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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 Draft of Section 26, version 4, n.d. (MG 26 A, Vol. 47/1, pp. 18312-18313).
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In case legislation is [illegible] obstructed by the antagonism of the Senate to the House of Commons [illegible] for three [illegible] successive sessions, it shall be lawful for the [illegible] by Order in Council [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] to appoint [illegible] on a [illegible] additional [illegible] in the portion allotted to each section, but as vacancies [illegible] occur [illegible] in the Senate no new appt shall be made [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] which the vacancy occur shall

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be made [illegible] until the number for such section is reduced to the [illegible] [illegible] by this Act.