542:. In a demarcation of provincial from Dominion jurisdiction, Prince Edward Island "persons in the permanent employ of the various departments of the Dominion government service" could not vote for the "Legislative Assembly." The preamble and section 179 stipulated that voting qualifications "should not be altered in one particular, namely, the qualification of the voters for the property candidates or council men, or the proportionate number of councillors in the new house, without a two-third vote of the new house." The Liberal petitioners did not explicitly engage with Conservative concerns that voters without "real property qualification" could only vote for fifteen out of the thirty
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county. This district only containing about 200 voters, and it not being deemed fair to allow so small a constituency to exist, in face of the fact that several other constituencies contained as many as 2000 voters. In order to do this change had to be made in three of the constituencies in King's county." The "Amalgamation Bill" abolished the
Legislative Council, but added two representatives to the total number of
581:. He arrived in the north coast town on May 17, 1911, when it was barely one year old (having been incorporated in March 1910). Peters' legal and political experience were important as he helped the community make the transition from a frontier company town to port city. He remained as City Solicitor until his death in 1919.
574:– encouraged both men to resign their political and legal careers in the Maritimes and begin a joint legal practice in Victoria. Peters and Tupper arrived in Victoria on November 11, 1897. By July 1898 they had opened two partnerships, Tupper, Peters and Potts in Victoria and Tupper, Peters and Gilmour in Vancouver.
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would be "elected by voters eligible to vote for the present legislative council, and the other half by voters eligible to vote for our present house of assembly...The bill leaves the districts as before with the exception that it was necessary to enlarge the bounds of
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