Die Lagerstätten von Wolfram, Zinn und Molybdän in Russland

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 1)

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Identifikator:: 1831750147

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Title:: Almanach d'adresses de la Chambre de Commerce, d'Industrie et de Métier `a Zagreb

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Year of publication:: 1930

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Title:: Pomočna trgovačka. Entreprises intermédiaires - Verschiedene Handelsunternehmungen - Auxiliary commercial undertakings

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CHAP. 1V] THE GOVERNOR AS HEAD 239 all the Lieutenant-Governors now holding office prove that the correctness of this view has been hitherto recognized in practice ; and I cannot doubt that your advisers, from the opinions they have expressed, would be equally ready with the late Government to appreciate the objections to any action which might tend to weaken its influence in the future. I have directed your attention particularly to this point, because it appears to me to be important that, in.considering a case which may be referred to hereafter as a precedent, the true constitutional position of a Lieutenant-Governor should be defined. The whole subject may, I am satisfied, now be once more reviewed with advantage, and I cannot but think that the interval which has elapsed (and which has from various causes been unavoidable) may have been useful in affording means for a thorough comprehension of a very complicated question, and in allowing time for the strong feelings, on both sides, which I regret to observe have been often too bitterly expressed. to subside. Another striking instance of the straining of the power of dissolution and dismissal entrusted to the Governor was shown by the action of the Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia—Mr. T. R. McInnes—in the years 1898-1900.1 In 1898 Mr. McInnes decided to dismiss the Ministry of Mr. Turner, which he considered to have no longer the con- fidence of the people of the province. The Ministry which took the place of Mr. Turner’s Government was also very weak ; it failed to meet Parliament in 1900 until January 4 ; it was defeated immediately after the meeting of Parliament, and only retained office throughout January and February by a majority of either one vote or of the casting vote of the Speaker. Moreover, the Ministry requested the Lieutenant- Governor to approve warrants for certain expenditures which were not authorized by the Legislature, and when the Lieutenant-Governor asked that he should receive a legal opinion from the Attorney-General as to the constitutionality of such warrants, no answer was supplied. Further, the Government advised him to take action with a view to making an important change in the Minerals Act empowering the Governor to cancel certain certificates of improvement 1 (Canada Sess. Pap., 1900, No. 174.

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