Geschichte der volkswirtschaftlichen Lehrmeinungen

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 2)

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Identifikator:: 1765274494

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-144018

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: The sources of public utility capital

Place of publication:: Urbana

Publisher:: University of Illinois

Year of publication:: 1928

Scope:: 52 Seiten; graph. Darst.

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: V. The ratio of preferred stock to total equities

Collection:: Economics Books

cHAP. 111] THE UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA 977 the election of his successor, who was elected as soon as possible after the dissolution or expiration of the Council. The Governor had the power to disallow any election, where- upon a new election had to take place, and at any time during the office of any Superintendent the Crown had the right to remove him from office on receiving an address signed by the majority of the members of the Provincial Council praying for his removal. The Superintendent was not assigned by the Act itself ! any special executive authority, but that was merely in keeping with the general nature of the Act, which practically does not deal with the Executive Government at all. As a matter of fact, he had a sphere of activity some- what similar to that of the Administrators of the South African Provinces, and clearly he would have been entitled to act on his own responsibility, subject always to the possibility of his removal if the majority of the members of the Council desired him to be removed. The power, however, of removing him was simply facultative, although in fact it could be exercised according to the rules of responsible government, and the Superintendent would thus become a sort of elective Lieutenant-Governor.2 As a matter of fact the principle of Provincial Councils did not work well, and was eventually abolished in virtue of an Act passed by the Imperial Parliament in 1868 and carried into effect by an Act in 1875 of the Parliament of New Zealand, under which ordinary municipal institutions were substituted for the council system.® In addition to its paramount power of legislation, the General Assembly had power to constitute new provinces, to direct the number of members of which a Provincial Council should consist, to alter the boundaries of the pro- vinces, and to alter the provisions respecting the election of * The Councils used to proceed strictly on party lines, like Parliaments, and the Superintendents exercised the functions then exercised by Governors, and dismissed Ministers. * It must be remembered that the Act of 1852 throughout never refers to responsible government even for the main government of New Zealand. * See Parl. Pap., 1876, A 2 a; the Abolition of Provinces Act, 1875; Imperial Act 31 & 32 Vict. c. 92. 12792 oo

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