113. [Assets of Ontario and Quebec.] The Assets enumerated in the Fourth
Schedule to this Act belonging at the Union to the Province of Canada
shall be the Property of Ontario and Quebec conjointly.
114. [Debt of Nova Scotia.] Nova Scotia shall be liable to Canada for
the Amount (if any) by which its Public Debt exceeds at the Union Eight
million Dollars, and shall be charged with Interest at the Rate of Five
per Centum per Annum thereon.
115. [Debt of New Brunswick.] New Brunswick shall be liable to Canada
for the Amount (if any) by which its Public Debt exceeds at the Union
Seven million Dollars, and shall be charged with Interest at the Rate
of Five per Centum per Annum thereon.
116. [Payment of Interest to Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.] In case
the Public Debts of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick do not at the Union
amount to Eight million and Seven million Dollars respectively, they
shall respectively receive by half-yearly Payments in advance from
the Government of Canada Interest at Five per Centum per Annum on the
Difference between the actual Amounts of their respective Debts and
such stipulated Amounts.
117. [Provincial Public Property.] The several Provinces shall retain
all their respective Public Property not otherwise disposed of in this
Act, subject to the Right of Canada to assume any Lands or Public
Property required for Fortifications or for the Defence of the Country.
118. [Grants to Provinces.] The following Sums shall be paid yearly by
Canada to the several Provinces for the Support of their Governments
and Legislatures:
Dollars.
Ontario . . . . . . . . . . Eighty thousand.
Quebec . . . . . . . . . . .Seventy thousand.
Nova Scotia . . . . . . . . Sixty thousand.
New Brunswick . . . . . . . Fifty thousand.
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Two hundred and sixty thousand;
and an annual Grant in aid of each Province shall be made, equal to
Eighty Cents per Head of the Population as ascertained by the Census
of One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, and in the Case of Nova
Scotia and New Brunswick, by each subsequent Decennial Census until
the Population of each of those Two Provinces amounts to Four hundred
thousand Souls, at which Rate such Grant shall thereafter remain. Such
Grants shall be in full Settlement of all future Demands on Canada,
and shall be paid half-yearly in advance to each Province; but the
Government of Canada shall deduct from such Grants, as against any
Province, all Sums chargeable as Interest on the Public Debt of that
Province in excess of the several Amounts stipulated in this Act.
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