Provincial Subsidies Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. P-26)

Marginal note:Subsidy to Manitoba

4 The following amounts shall be allowed as the annual subsidy to the Province of Manitoba and shall be paid yearly to the Province:

• (a) for the support of the Government and Legislature, fifty thousand dollars;

• (b) on an estimated population of one hundred and fifty thousand, at eighty cents per capita, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars, subject to be increased as hereinafter mentioned, that is to say, a census of the Province shall be taken in every fifth year, reckoning from the general census of 1881; and an approximate estimate of the population shall be made at equal intervals of time between each quinquennial and decennial census; and whenever the population, by any such census or estimate, exceeds one hundred and fifty thousand, which shall be the minimum on which the allowance shall be calculated, the amount of the allowance shall be increased accordingly, and so on, until the population has reached four hundred thousand; and

• (c) as an indemnity for the want of public lands, one hundred thousand dollars.