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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], Incomplete Version, 1867 (MG 26 A, Vol. 47/1, p. 18314).
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18314
Resolved
As the opinion of this conference that the 8th section should be so amended as [that the event of a conflict between the Senate + House of Commons] to permit the General Government to add [appoint] not exceeding 9 additional members to the Legislative Council, [illegible] taken that the proportionate number of members for Upper and Lower Canada and the Lower Provinces shall not be disturbed, or that the Local Legislatures of the separate shall [illegible] from by a joint Ballot of the two branches of each Legislature to elect