The Constitution of Canada

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Identifikator:: 1895543282

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-242408

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Author:: Munro, Joseph Edwin Crawford http://d-nb.info/gnd/1113111038

Title:: The Constitution of Canada

Place of publication:: Cambridge

Publisher:: Univ. Press

Year of publication:: 1889

Scope:: XXXVI, 356 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter XVII. The Dominion Administration

Collection:: Economics Books

198 ‘THE DOMINION ADMINISTRATION. thereto, and of the officers and persons employed in that service®. By the 50 and 51 Vic. c. 11 this department is to be transferred to the Minister of Trade and Commerce or to the Minister of Finance? 6. DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE. This department was constituted by the 32 and 33 Vic. c. 4, and has the supervision, control and direction of all matters relating to such financial affairs, public accounts, revenue and expenditure of the Dominion, as are not or in so far as they are not by law or by order of the Governor in Council assigned to any other department of the Civil Service, as well as such other duties as may be from time to time assigned to it by the Governor in Council. By a subsequent Act® the office of Receiver-General was abolished and the duties of that official were transferred to she Minister of Finance. Two important branches of the department are the Treasury Board and the Audit Office. joe y The Treasury Board, formed of the Minister of Finance, Board. and five Ministers nominated by the Governor in Council? acts as a committee of the Privy Council in all matters of finance which are referred to it by the Council or to which it thinks it necessary to call the attention of the Council. It is empowered to direct that books and accounts be kept by any officer engaged in the revenue department, and to prescribe how accounts are to be kept by the various branches of the public service”. It directs how each department is to prepare its appro- priation account. ad The Audit Office is under the charge of the Auditor- General, who is appointed by the Governor-General under the lL R. 8. C. 1886, c. 82, 5. 5. 2 See ante, p. 193. 3 42 Vie. c. 7. + 50 and 51 Vie. e. 13, SR.S. 0. ec 99

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