THE BRITISH NORTH AMERICA ACT, 1907
			(7 Edward VII, c. 11)

An Act to make further provision with respect to the sums to be paid
by Canada to the several provinces of the Dominion.


9th August, 1907

   Whereas an address has been presented to His Majesty  by the Senate
and Commons of Canada in the terms set forth in  the  schedule of this
Act:

   Be it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the
advice and consent of  the Lords, Spiritual and Temporal,  and Commons
in this present  Parliament  assembled, and  by  the authority  of the
same, as follows:--

   1.   (1) The  following  grants shall  be  made yearly by Canada to
every province, which at the commencement of this Act is a province of
the Dominion, for its local purposes and the support of its Government
and Legislature:
   (a)  A fixed grant --
   Where the population of the province is under one hundred and
fifty thousand, of one hundred thousand dollars;
   Where the population of the province is one hundred and fifty
thousand, but does not exceed two hundred thousand, of one hundred and
fifty thousand dollars;
   Where the population of the province is  two hundred  thousand, but
does  not  exceed four  hundred  thousand,  of one hundred  and eighty
thousand dollars;
   Where the population of the province is four hundred  thousand, but
does  not exceed  eight  hundred  thousand, of  one hundred and ninety
thousand dollars;
   Where the population of the province is eight hundred thousand, but
does not exceed one million five hundred thousand,  of two hundred and
twenty thousand dollars;
   Where  the  population  of the  province  exceeds  one million five
hundred thousand, of two hundred and forty thousand dollars; and
   (b)  Subject to the   special  provisions of   this  Act as  to the
provinces of British Columbia and Prince Edward Island, a grant at the
rate of eight cents per head of the population of  the province  up to
the number of two  million five hundred thousand,  and  at the rate of
sixty  cents per head of  so much of  the  population  as exceeds that
number.

   (2)  An additional grant of one  hundred thousand dollars  shall be
made yearly  to the province  of British Columbia for  a period of ten
years from the commencement of this Act.

   (3)  The population of a province shall be ascertained from time to
time in  the case of  provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta
respectively by the last quinquennial census of  statutory estimate of
population  made under the  Acts  establishing those provinces  of any
other  Act  of the Parliament of  Canada,   making  provision  for the
purpose, and in the case of any other  province  by the last decennial
census for the time being.

   (4)  The grants payable under this Act shall be paid half-yearly in
advance to each province.

   (5) The grants payable under this Act  shall be substituted for the
grants  and subsidies (in  this  Act  referred to as  existing grants)
payable for the like  purposes at the commencement  of this Act to the
several provinces of the Dominion  under the provisions of section one
hundred and eighteen of the British North America Act, 1867, or of any
Order  in  Council establishing  a  province,  or  of any  Act  of the
Parliament of Canada containing directions for the payment of any such
grant or subsidy and those provisions shall cease to have effect.

   (6) The Government of Canada shall have the same power of deducting
sums charged against a province  on account of  the interest of public
debt in the case of the  grant payable under this  Act to the province
as they have in the case of the existing grant.

   (7)  Nothing in this    Act  shall  affect the obligation    of the
Government of Canada to pay to any province any grant which is payable
to that province  other than  the existing grant for  which  the grant
under this Act is substituted.

   (8) In the case  of the   provinces of British Columbia and  Prince
Edward Island, the  amount  paid on account  of  the grant payable per
head of the population to the provinces under  this  act shall  not at
any time be less than the amount of corresponding grant payable at the
commencement of this Act; and if  it is found on  any decennial census
that  the population  of the   province has decreased  since the  last
decennial census, the amount paid on account of the grant shall not be
decreased below the amount then payable,  notwithstanding the decrease
of the population.

   2.  This Act may be cited as the  British North America  Act, 1907,
and shall take effect as from  the first of  July nineteen hundred and
seven.