Excerpt from Anno Tetrio Et Quatro Victorię Reginę, Magnę Britannię Et Hibernię At the Parliament Begun and Holden at Westminster, on the Fifteenth Day of November, Anno Domini 1837, in the First Year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lady Victoria, by the Grace of God, of the U. K. Of G. B. And Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, &C
IV. And be it enacted, That for the Purpose of composing the Legislative Council of the Province of Canada it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, before the Time to be appointed for the First Meeting of the said Legislative Council and Assembly, by an Instrument under the Sign Manual, to authorize the Governor, in Her Majesty's Name, by an Instrument under the Great Seal of the said Pro vince, to summon to the said Legislative Council of the said Province such Per sons, being not fewer than Twenty, as Her Majesty shall think fit; and that it shall also be lawful for Her Majesty from Time to Time to authorize the Gover nor ia like Manner to summon to the said Legislative Council such other Person or Persons as Her Majesty shall think fit, and that every Person who shall he so summoned shall thereby become a Member of the Legislative Council of the Pro vince of Canada: Provided always, that no Person shall be summoned to the said Legislative Council of the Province of Canada who shall not be of the full Age of Twenty-one Years, and a natural-born Subject of Her Majesty, or a Subject of Her Majesty naturalized by Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, or by Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or by an Act of the Legislature of either of the Provinces of Upper or Lower Canada, or by an Act of the Legislature of the Province of Canada.
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