632 INDEX 
10, 1910), 754, 1364 ; prerogative of 
mercy, 1400 n.1; education, 695 
n. 1, 1425, 
Aliens, Dominion and provincial 
authority as to, 697, 698; power 
to exclude, 1621; honours conferred 
on, 1554 n.4; and see Naturalization. 
Al-Red’ Mail Route, 1467, 1499. 
1500, 1532, 1533. 
Alteration of Constitution, in Canada, 
770-5; in the Commonwealth, 
922-30; in the Union, 998-1002 ; 
in Colonies generally, Part 1V, 
chap. iv, and see Table of Contents, 
Alverstone, Lord, decision in Alaska 
Boundary case, 1142; views on 
Privy Council and High Court of 
Australia, 1367. 
Amotion, of Colonial judges, 1241-7. 
Angers, Hon. A. R., Lieutenant- 
Governor of Quebec, dismisses 
Mercier Ministry in 1891, 2424, 
Anglin, Hon. F., J. of the Supreme 
Court of Ontario, King’s Bench 
Division, and later of Supreme Court 
of Canada, views on territorial 
limitation of Dominion legislation, 
389; onadvisory judgements, 755. 
Annand, Mr., opposes federation of 
Canada, 647. 
Annexation of territory, in case of 
Cape (Colonial Office List, 1911. 
pp. 299, 300), 948. 
Antigua, alteration of constitution of 
bicameral legislature by Acts No. 
258 of 1866 (half elective Council) 
and No. 1 of 1898 (nominee), 10, 
367 ; no power of Crown to legislate 
for, 1444 n. 1, 
Appeals, to Privy Council, Part VI, 
chap. iii; from State Courts in 
Australia, 878 n.1, 879 n.1; 
attempts to limit, in Canada, 750, 
981 ; in Ontario, 752 ; in Australia, 
787, 788; in the Union, 979-82; 
from State Courts to the High 
Court of Australia, 877-84; from 
Provincial Courts to the Supreme 
Court of Canada, 753-6; from 
Provincial Divisions to the Appel. 
late Division in the Union, 979-82, 
Appointment of a Governor (cf. Maori 
petition for Mr. Seddon’s appoint- 
ment, refused in 1903, New Zealand 
Parl. Pap., 1904, A. 2, p. 7), 83-17. 
Appointment to benefices, Governor's 
power of, 158, 1613 n, 2. 
Appointment and dismissal of 
officers, 170 n. 1; in Canada, 1562 ; 
in Commonwealth, 1570; in the 
Union, 1579 n. 1; in New Zealand. 
1588; in Australian States, 1597 ; 
in Newfoundland, 1606. 
Appointment of judicial officers in 
Canada, Dominion and provincial 
authority as to, 701-3, 1338 n. 1. 
Appropriation Bill, rejection of, in 
Victoria, 600-24; in South Aus- 
tralia’ (Council Debates, 1911, pp. 
848-73), 1620 ; modification of, in 
Tasmania, 630 n.; in United 
Province of Canada, 559 n.1; in 
Quebec, 566. 
ppropriation of moneys, method fol. 
lowed in Imperial Parliament see 
Todd, Parliamentary Government in 
England, vol. i, chap. xvii; vol. ii, 
chap. i), 613-5. 
Arbitration law, in Commonwealth, 
846-64, 
Arbitration Treaties (Cd. 4870), 1113, 
1114, 
4reana imperii, admission of Dominion 
Prime Ministers to share in, 1552. 
Archibald, Hon. Sir A. G., K.C.M.G., 
Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia 
1873-83), asks Mr. Macdonald to 
resign, 594; refuses to assent to 
certain Provincial Bills, 1008. 
Arctic Islands, Canadian claim to, 
764,765 n. 1. 
Argentina, Treaty of February 2, 
1825, with, binds all Dominions, 
1108, 1153. 
frmy Act, 1881, Governor's duties 
under, 298 ; legislative authority of 
Dominions under, 1320. 
Artistic Copyright, 1234. 
\siatics, political disabilities of, in the 
Commonwealth, 480, 521, 1622 3 in 
Jueensland, 485, 792; in Western 
Australia, 487, 538, 792; in the 
Union, 961, 962, 1624 ; employ- 
ment on merchant shipping in New 
Zealand, 1213-5; immigration of, 
Part IV, chap. iv, and see Table 
of Contents; discussion of, at 
Conference of 1897, 1470; at 
Conference of 1911, 1519-23. 
Asquith, Rt. Hon. H. H., M.P., views 
on Imperial Defence Conference, 
1288-91 ; on royal veto, 1008; on 
Sir J. Ward’s proposals for an Im- 
perial Council, 1505, 1506 ; on the 
results of the Conference, 1552. 
Assent to Bills, 1007-20 ; form of, 459. 
Assets, legal situs of, 381 n. 1,395 n. 1. 
Atkinson, Hon. Sir H., K.C.M.G., 
Prime Minister of New Zealand 
(1887-91), 186, 329; recommends 
addition of members to Legislative 
Council on eve of retirement. 1301.