Die Zollgesetze der österreichisch-ungarischen Monarchie nach dem gegenwärtigen Stande der Gesetzgebung nebst allen auf die Einhebung und Verwaltung der Zölle Bezug habenden Vorschriften und Erlässen

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 2)

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Identifikator:: 834699508

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-88487

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Zauschner, E.

Title:: Die Zollgesetze der österreichisch-ungarischen Monarchie nach dem gegenwärtigen Stande der Gesetzgebung nebst allen auf die Einhebung und Verwaltung der Zölle Bezug habenden Vorschriften und Erlässen

Place of publication:: Wien

Publisher:: Beck

Year of publication:: 1871

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (LVII, 525 S.)

Collection:: Economics Books

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CHAP. vir] RELATIONS OF THE HOUSES 621 on the plea that a Protectionist Colony had nothing to exhibit. Land Acts had been amended so as to favour the capitalist class. The last Land Act of 1878 had reduced to six from twenty years the period within which the original selectors of Crown land could alienate the land so selected. The Assembly energetically supported the Governor, and claimed that he had acted in full accordance with the principles of popular government. On December 27, 18781 the Governor reported that the deputation was starting, but that the Legislative Council had declined to send a deputation. He added with pleasure that it showed a great change in the spirit of the Assembly that they should be willing to refer to the Imperial Govern- ment in contrast to the resolutions adopted in 1869 by Mr. Higinbotham, one of which had laid down — That the official communication of advice, suggestions, or instructions by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to Her Majesty’s Representative in Victoria on any subject whatsoever connected with the administration of the local Government, except the giving or withholding the royal assent to or the reservation of Bills passed by the two Houses of the Victorian Parliament, is a practice not sanc- tioned by law, derogatory to the independence of the Queen’s Representative, and a violation both of the principles of the System of responsible government and of the constitutional rights of the people of this Colony. He expressed his opinion that the Second Chamber in the Australian Colonies should be created by nomination rather than election. A nominated Upper House, he thought, followed the Practice of the House of Lords and adopted its precedents. Moreover, Lord Canterbury, the Governor’s predecessor in the Government of Victoria, who was experienced in the Imperial Legislature and the Colonial administration alike, thought that the position and mutual relations of the Council and Assembly should be, for all practical purposes and so far as the circumstances of the case permitted, analogous to those of the House of Lords and of the House of Commons. t Parl. Pap., C. 2217, p. 73.

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