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Justice when exercised only in virtue of a deputation given
by the Governor under the letters patent, but it hampered
somewhat the freedom of the Crown to appoint a deputy
An amended Bill was reserved in 1910 and assented to.
Acts suitable for reservation are those which purport to
confer upon public bodies in the Colonies the title ‘ Char-
tered >. This is a privilege of the Crown, and should not be
conferred by a Colonial Legislature unless it is desired
deliberately to render nugatory the royal prerogative. Thus,
an Ontario Act (c. 42) of 1908 was ultimately disallowed by
the Dominion Government, because not only did it create a
chartered society of accountants, but forbade the use by
persons not members of it in the provinces of the name
“Chartered Accountant’. The Act was re-enacted in 1910
(c. 79), disallowed, and re-enacted in 1911 (c. 48) by the
Provincial Legislature. In Newfoundland a similar Act was
amended at the request of the Imperial Government! There
is, of course, no great principle at stake in such cases ; it is
merely a matter of good feeling and courtesy not to legislate
$0 as to usurp a prerogative of the Crown ; there is no objec-
tion to the Legislature doing what it likes in substance, but
the same motive which induces the Imperial Parliament not
to confer by Imperial legislation the title * Chartered’ would
seem to operate. Or again the title ‘ Royal’ should only be
conferred by consent of the Crown in any case where the
term could seem to indicate royal patronage and support,
though the rule has often been, unintentionally no doubt,
violated. Of recent years, however, the Canadian Govern-
ment have strictly refused to consent to pass Acts incor-
porating companies and other bodies under such a title
unless the royal permission has first been obtained ; this
was done in 1910 in the case of the incorporation of the
Royal Guardians of Canada, and this is clearly the only
correct principle.? Similarly, no institution in the Colonies
should call itself ‘ Royal’ without express. permission from
the Crown, and this permission given by one sovereign
- 6 Edw. VIL c. 29. See also Provincial Legislation, 1904-6, p. 159.
See 9& 10 Edw. VIL c. 158; Canadian Annual Review, 1910, pp. 118, 119.
