83.- Until the Legislature of Ontario or of Quebec otherwise
provides, a Person accepting or holding in Ontario or in Quebec any Office,
Commission, or Employment, permanent or temporary, at the Nomination of the
Lieutenant Governor, to which an annual Salary, or any Fee, Allowance,
Emolument, or Profit of any Kind or Amount whatever from the Province is
attached, shall not be eligible as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of the
respective Province, not shall he sit or vote as such; but nothing in this
Section shall make ineligible any Person being a Member of the Executive
Council of the respective Province, or holding any of the following Offices,
that is to say, the Offices of Attorney General, Secretary and Registrar of the
Province, Treasurer of the Province, Commissioner of Crown Lands, and
Commissioner of Agriculture and Public Works, and in Quebec Solicitor General,
or shall disqualify him to sit or vote in the House for which he is elected,
provided he is elected while holding such Office.
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