The establishment, maintenance and management of prisons, hospitals, asylums, charities, in and for the province;
Municipal institutions in the province;
Shop, saloon, tavern, auctioneer, and other licences, for provincial, local or municipal purposes.
Local works and undertakings, excepting:—
“(a) Lines of steam or other ships, railways, canals, telegraphs, and other works and undertakings connecting the province with any other or others of the provinces, or extending beyond the limits of the province.
“(b) Lines of steam ships between the province and any British or foreign country.
“(c) Such works as, although wholly situate within the province, are before or after their execution declared by the [pg 417] Parliament of Canada to be for the general advantage of Canada or for the advantage of two or more of the provinces.”
The incorporation of companies with provincial objects; marriage and property and civil rights in the province;
The administration of justice in the province, civil and criminal jurisdiction, together with the imposition of punishment by fine, penalty, or imprisonment, and generally all matters of a merely local or private nature.
Subsequent paragraphs provide that the provincial legislatures may exclusively make laws in relation to education, provide for uniformity of laws in certain provinces, and also deal with agriculture and immigration, with the proviso, however, that such laws shall have effect only so long and as far as they are not repugnant to any Act of the Canadian Parliament.