to adjust the accounts between the Dominion of Canada and the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec respectively and between the said provinces.
The arbitrators were appointed under authority of statutes passed by the Dominion Parliament and legislatures of the said provinces in 1891, namely, 54 & 55 Vict. ch. 6 (D) ; 54 Vict. ch. 2 (Ont.); and 54 Vict. ch. 4 (Que.)
These statutes were identical in terms that passed by the Dominion Parliament containing the following provisions:- "An Act respecting the settlement of accounts between the Dominion of Canada and the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec, and between the said provinces." " Whereas certain accounts have arisen or may hereafter arise in the settlement of the accounts between the Dominion of Canada and the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec, both jointly and severally, and between the two provinces, concerning which no agreement has hitherto been arrived at; and whereas it is advisable that all such questions of account should be referred to arbitration; Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows :"
" 1. For the final and conclusive determination of such accounts, the Governor General in Council may