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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a colonial or a provincial legislature.
Quotations
1774
Indeed the restraints laid by this act upon the local legislature confine its discretionary powers within very narrow bounds, and almost reduce it to a necessity of exercising its authority for the general good only.
1836
The Local Legislature is divided against itself, one of the Houses seeking the destruction of the other for several years past.
1867
The local legislatures are to be known as the Provincial Legislatures of Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, respectively.
1916
In 1888, a local legislature was created, with limited powers, later somewhat enlarged.