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CHAPTER III 
THE TREATMENT OF NATIVE RACES 
§ 1. RESERVATION OF BILLS 
WHILE the Imperial Government has always been marked 
for the great attention which it has paid to considerations 
affecting the treatment of natives in the Crown Colonies, it 
is at first sight curious that there should be so little provision 
in the royal instructions for the reservation of measures 
affecting natives. There is nothing at all in the royal 
instructions for Canada or Newfoundland ; nothing in the 
case of the Commonwealth of Australia or the Australian 
states, or the Dominion of New Zealand, and the only pro- 
visions were those inserted, first in the Natal royal instruc- 
tions of 1893, and then in the Transvaal and Orange River 
Colony letters patent of December 6, 1906, and June 5, 1907, 
respectively, which required the reservation of Bills differen- 
tially affecting persons not of European origin or descent. 
In the case of these three Colonies there were further pro- 
visions, for it was expressly laid down in the case of Natal in 
the royal instructions that in matters in which the Governor 
acted as Supreme Chief of the natives he should communicate 
what he intended to do to his Ministers before acting, but 
that the. final decision must rest with him and not with 
ministers. In the latter two cases it was provided, in the 
letters patent granting responsible government, as follows :— 
LI. (1) The Governor shall continue to exercise over all 
chiefs and natives in the Colony all power and authority 
aow vested in him as Paramount Chief. 
(2) The Governor in Council may at any time summon 
an assembly of native chiefs, and also, if it shall seem 
expedient, of other persons having special knowledge and 
experience in native affairs, to discuss with the Governor, 
or such representative as the Governor in Council may