Page 154 - Annuaire Statistique Québec - 1918

FORM OF GOVERNMENT 127

LEGISLATIVE POWER.

Legislative power is exercised concurrently: 1. by the Lieutenant-
Govemor; 2. by an upper House called the Legislative Council; 3. bya
Rouse of members called the Legislative Assembly.

The Lieutenant-Governor in the King)s name, convenes) prorogues
or dissolves the Legislature and sanctions the acts adopted by both
Houses.
The Legislative Council consists of 24 members appointed for life
by the Lieutenant-Governor. Each one of them represents a specified
territorial division. The Legislative Council is presided over by the
one of its members vl'-hom the Lieutenant-Governor has chosen.

The Legislative Assembly consists of 85 members elected in 86
electoral districts of the Province (Charlevoix and Saguenay form only
one electoral division). The Legislative Assembly is presided over by
one of its members who has been elected to it and is called the Speaker,
he remains in office until the election of his successor at the opeIÙng of
another Legislature. The indemnity pajd to the members of both H6use~
is $2)000 pel' session. Both speakers receive in addition an annual salary
of $4)000.

TERRITORIAL DIVISIONS

The Province is divided:

1. For the purpose of representation in the Legislative Assembly
into 86 electoral districts. (These must not be confounded with diF:-
tricts for the election of members to the Rouse of Commons);

2. For the purpose of representation in the Legislative Council, into
24 divisions;

3. For the administration of justice, into 25 judicial districts;
4. For registration purposes, into 77 registration districts;

5. For municipal purposes,into 74 county municipalities (whose limits
do not always correspond to the limits of the elootoral districts) and
into local municipalities, both rural and urban;
6. For sohool purposes, into school municipalities-I,800 in 1925-26
(which have not always the same limits as those of the local municipa-
lities) .