174 THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL, 
Debates ensued in both Houses. A motion declaring the 
dismissal of the ministry to be at variance with Constitutional 
government was carried in the Senate but lost in the House 
of Commons. In the following year a new Parliament 
assembled and both Houses agreed in censuring the dismissal 
of the Quebec Ministry. The Cabinet thereupon advised the 
Governor-General to remove the Lieutenant-Governor from 
his office. The Governor-General stated reasons for not 
adopting such a course, and the ministers then advised a 
reference to the Home Government. 
Sir M. Hicks-Beach, the Colonial Secretary, in a despatch 
dated the 3rd of July, 1879, informed the Governor-General 
that, in the removal of a Lieutenant-Governor from office, 
he ought to act by and with the advice of his ministers, who 
were responsible for the peace and good government of the 
Dominion to Parliament, to which the cause of removal had to 
be communicated. At the same time the Governor-General 
was requested to ask his ministry to review the case, as the 
spirit and intention of the B. N. A. Act 1867 required that 
tenure of office should as a rule endure for five years, and that 
she power of removal should only be exercised for grave cause, 
The despatch was communicated to the ministry, who 
adhered to their previous decision, and by an order in Council, 
dated July 25, the Lieutenant-Governor was removed from 
office. 
Disallow. By the British North America Act 1867" any Act passed 
Provincial by a provincial Legislature may be disallowed by the Governor- 
Sis: General within one year after its enactment. This power of 
disallowance is only exercised by the Governor on the advice 
of his ministers”. 
The course pursued in regard to all provincial Acts is 
governed by the principles laid down in a memorandum 
1 gs. 56, 90. 
? Can. Sess. Pap. 1877, No. 89. See also Ib. 1876, No. 116 and Ib. 1877, 
No. 89