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Date: 1866-12-24
By: Hewitt Bernard, John A. Macdonald, British North American Delegates
Citation: John A. Macdonald Fonds, Drafts of the London Resolutions – Penultimate Draft [Scrap Resolution: Amendment to Annual Grants for Provinces] , December 24, 1866 (MG 26 A, Vol. 47/1, p. 18277).
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18277

64

In consideration of the transfer to the General Parliament of the powers of taxation, the following sums shall be paid to each by the General Government to each Province for the support of their Local Govts and Legislatures:—

Upper Canada $80,000
Lower Canada 70,000
Nova Scotia 60,000
New Brunswick 50,000
$260,000

and an annual grant in aid of each Province shall be made, equal to eighty cents per head of the population, as established by the Census of 1861, and in the case of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, by each subsequent decennial census until the population of each of those Provinces shall amount to 400,000 souls, at which [illegible] ^[rate] it shall thereafter be established ^[remain]. Such aid shall be in full settlement of all future demands upon the General Govt. for local purposes, and shall be paid half yearly in advance to each Province

Reverse side:

amended as 63 in [illegible] copy

passed 24 Decr