Om kredit och vexlar

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 3)

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Identifikator:: 82824166X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-66898

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Liljenstrand, Axel

Title:: Om kredit och vexlar

Place of publication:: Helsingfors

Publisher:: Edlund

Year of publication:: 1880

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (226 S.)

Collection:: Economics Books

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cHAP. 1v] THE PREROGATIVE OF MERCY 1419 be tried within the Union, to grant a pardon to any accom- plice in such crime or offence who shall give such information as shall lead to the conviction of the principal offender, or of any one of such offenders if more than one; and further, to grant to any offender convicted of any such crime or offence in any Court, or before any judge, justice, or magis- trate, within the Union, a pardon, either free or subject to lawful conditions, or any remission of the sentence passed on such offender, or any respite of the execution of such sentence, for such period as to the Governor-General may seem fit, and to remit any fines, penalties, or forfeitures which may become due and payable to Us. Provided always, that if the offender be a natural-born British subject or a British subject by naturalization in any: part of our Dominions, the Governor-General shall in no case, except where the offence has been of a political nature, make it a condition of any pardon or remission of sentence that the offender shall be banished from or shall absent himself from the Union. And we do hereby direct and enjoin that the Governor- General shall not pardon, grant remission to, or reprieve any such offender without first receiving in cases other than capital cases the advice of one, at least, of his ministers. Whenever any offender shall have been condemned to suffer death by the sentence of any Court, the Governor- General shall consult the Executive Council upon the case of such offender, submitting to the Council any report that may have been made by the judge who tried the case, and, whenever it appears advisable to do so, taking measures to invite the attendance of such judge at the Council. The Governor-General shall not pardon or reprieve any such offender unless it shall appear to him expedient so to do, upon receiving the advice of the Executive Council thereon; but in all such cases he is to decide either to extend or to withhold a pardon or reprieve, according to his own deliberate judgement, whether the members of the Executive Council concur therein or other- wise ; entering nevertheless, on the Minutes of the Executive Council, a minute of his reasons at length in case he should decide any such question in opposition to the judgement of the majority of the members thereof. The omission of any reference to Imperial interests in the exercise of the prerogative in ordinary cases is a somewhat

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