660 INDEX 
members, 492, 493 ; payment, 504 3 
aslectoral matters, 505, 1620; Upper 
House, 597; referendum on liquor 
traffic, 932; Imperial control of 
legislation before Union, 1032-5 i 
entry intofederation, 846 ; represen- 
tation in Senate, 652; in House of 
Commons, 653; executive authority, 
681; disallowance of Acts, 735 
n. 3; education, 690, 691; Do- 
minion subsidy, 757, 758; public 
ands, 1047 ; judiciary, 752, 1337, 
1338 ; appeals to Supreme Court, 
750; to Privy Council (Order in 
Council, October 13, 1910), 752, 
1362, 1364 ; prerogative of mercy, 
1400 n.1; established church, 1429 
n. 1. 
Principles of Imperial control over 
Dominion administration and legis- 
lation, Part V, chap. i, and see Table 
of Contents. 
Prior, Col., Premier of British Colum- 
bia, dismissed by Lieutenant-Gover- 
nor in 1903, 244, 245, 
Private entrée, refused to Consuls 
{special courtesy was shown by 
Duke of Connaught; Standard of 
Empire, November 17, 1911; but 
entrée was not conceded), 1132 
n 1. 
Privileges of Parliament, Part VII, 
chap. v, and see Table of Contents; 
restricted powers taken in Australia, 
1618 n.4; of Canadian Legislatures, 
696, 697. 
Privy Council, views of Lord President 
as to disallowance of Canadian Bills. 
728, - 
Privy Council, Judicial Committee, 
appeals to, Part VI, chap. iii, and 
see Table of Contents; interpreta- 
tion of Commonwealth Constitu- 
tion, 832-5. 
Privy Council, in Canada, 302 ; in the 
South African draft constitution of 
18717, 946. . 
Prize, jurisdiction in, may be conferred 
on Colonial Courts (it is normally so 
conferred on the Supreme Court in 
the Admiralty jurisdiction under 
the Colonial Courts of Admiraliy Act, 
1890), 1349. 
Probate of Wills, grant of, by Governor, 
157, 1613. 
Probates, recognition of colonial, 1466. 
Procedure of Parliament, Part III, 
chap. v, and see Table of Contents. 
Prohibited degrees of marriage, relaxa- 
tion of, in Dominions, 1245-7. 
Property as basis of franchise. 475. 
Proportional representation, proposed 
for the Union, 960, 963, 1002; 
adopted in Tasmania, 508. 
Propsting, Hon. W. B., Premier of 
Tasmania (1903-4), 200-4. 
Prorogation of Parliament, power of 
Governor, 156,170 n. 1 ; in Canada, 
1562; in Commonwealth, 1570, 
1571; in the Union, 1579 ; in New 
Zealand, 1588, 1589; in Australian 
states, 1597; in Newfoundland, 
1605; and those in Canadian pro- 
rinces for indefinite period (Ontario 
Act, 1908, c. 5, 5. 6; British Columbia 
Bev. Stat., 1897, c. 47,5. 23 ; Alberta 
Act, 1909, c. 2,5. 6; Prince Edward 
{sland Act, 1911, c. 1), 471; in 
Victoria (Act No. 1075, s. 27) and 
Tasmania (Act 48 Vict. No. 54, 
ss. 10, 11), 471; refusal of Lieu- 
benant-Governor to grant in New 
South Wales, 16186, 
Protection in Canada, 1159-64, 
Protector, South Australian war vessel, 
1271. 
Protestant clergy, in Act of 1791 (31 
Geo. III c. 31), 1448. 
Provinces, in Canada (not colonies or 
dependencies in the ordinary sense 
of these words as used in ‘a will, 
in re Maryon- Wilson's estate, Times, 
November 9, 1911), Part IV, 
chap. i; in Union, chap. iii. 
Provinces, establishment of, by New 
Zealand Parliament, 367; in New 
Zealand, 975-7. 
Provincial Agents-General (M. Pelle- 
tier appointed for Quebec in 1911), 
343. 
Provincial Bills, assent to, in the 
Union, 971, 972, 974, 975. 
Provincial Councils, in New Zealand, 
976, 977 ; in the Union, 969-72. 
Public health, provincial control of, 
720; lands, see Lands; seal, see 
Seal; service, see Civil Service; 
works, attempt to control expendi- 
bure on, by Public WorksCommittee 
in New South Wales (rejected 
by Western Australia in 1912; see 
Debates, 1911, pp. 705 seq.), 635 
n. 5. 
Publication of correspondence, 101. 
Publication of treaties before ratifica- 
tion, 1129, 1130. 
Pugsley, Hon. W., Minister of Works 
in Canada, abolishes patronage 
system as regards contracts, 348; 
interferes in provincial politics, 655. 
Pulp wood, export of from Quebec and 
Ontario. 748 n. 1.