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1868.
Internal Economy of House of Commons.
Cap. 27, 28.

person shall be so suspended or removed, as the case may he, accordingly.

Clerk and other Officers, to take Oath of Allegiance.10. Immediately after the passing of this Act, the Clerk of the House of Commons shall take and subscribe before the Speaker, the oath of allegiance and all other Officers, Clerks and Messengers of the House of Commons shall take and subscribe before the Clerk of the House of Commons, the oath of Allegiance ; and every Officer, Clerk or Messenger who shall hereafter be appointed, shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, take and subscribe the same oath ; and the Clerk of the House of Commons shall keep a register of all such oaths.

Provisions respecting the fiscal years 1867-8 and 1868-9.11. For the purposes of this Act, all sums payable to Members of the House of Commons under the Members' Indemnity Act, and all sums voted and appropriated in the present Session of Parliament, for payment of salaries, allowances, contingent expenses, and stationery of the House of Commons for the fiscal year ending on the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, and for the fiscal year ended on the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, shall be deemed and taken as having been estimated under the second section of this Act, and shall be subject to the several provisions of this Act in respect of the mode of payment thereof respectively, and of the disposal of any surplus thereof.

Members' Indemnity Act amended, so as to agree with this Act.12. All sums of money which under the eighth section of the Members' Indemnity Act, might heretofore have been advanced to the Clerk of the House of Commons, shall after the passing of this Act, be paid over to the Minister of Finance for the purposes of this Act and shall be subject to the provisions thereof : so much of the seventh or of the ninth section of the said Act, as relates to the Clerk of the House of Commons shall be repealed after the passing of this Act, and the Accountant shall thereafter perform the duties assigned to the Clerk by the said seventh section.


Cap. XXVIII.

An Act to amend an Act, intituled : An Act respecting the Statutes of Canada.

[Assented to 22nd May, 1868.]

Preamble.Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows :

Sect. 3, of Cap. 1, 31 Vict., corrected.1. The word “ thirtieth ” in the third line of section three, of an Act passed in the thirty-first year of Her Majesty's reign,

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