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     a residence of twelve months in the electoral district before 
     
     the teste of writ. 
     
    

    
     The number of voters is 21,129. 
     
    

    
     The duration of the Assembly is four years, unless sooner 
     
     dissolved. The sessions are held annually in March or April, 
     
     and there must be a session every year. 
     
    

    
     The legislature expends money for provincial legislation, 
     
     administration of justice (except judges’ salaries), education, 
     
     public works, such as \vharves (being of provincial as distin- 
     
     guished from Dominion or federal importance), ferries, roads, 
     
     bridges, etc. It maintains offices for the registration of 
     
     deeds, mortgages, wills, judgments, etc., and pays for poor- 
     
     house maintenance, inspectors of licences, hospital for the 
     
     insane, coroners’ inquests, boards of health, dairy associ- 
     
     ations, etc. 
     
    

    
     For educational purposes, the province is divided into 
     
     school districts, each of which has authority to spend moneys 
     
     for school buildings, running expenses, and supplements for 
     
     teachers’ salaries. 
     
    

    
     The City of Charlottetown expends money for general civic 
     
     purposes, such as streets, sewers, water—works, fire-prevention, 
     
     city buildings, lighting streets, etc.; and the towns of Sum- 
     
     merside and Georgetown (the latter to a very limited extent) 
     
     have somewhat similar powers. 
     
    

    
     Prince Edward Island has not yet adopted the municipal 
     
     system, and the expenditure of the provincial revenue is 
     
     authorized directly by the legislature. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Revenue and Expenditure—The principal sources of 
     
     revenue are the Dominion subsidy, direct taxation of land, 
     
     road tax, income tax, succession duties, commercial travellers”, 
     
     peddlers‘, vendors’ and marriage licences, incorporated com- 
     
     panies tax, public lands, prothonotary, registry, Provincial 
     
     Secretary office fees, and county court fees. 
     
    

    
     The following table shows the receipts and expenditures 
     
     of the province for the year 1905: