Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 1)

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Press

Year of publication:: 1912-

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 1

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

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Title:: Part I. Introductory

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52 RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT [PART I on the civil government, and that the salary of the Governor should be put beyond the necessity of an annual vote. In the case of New Brunswick the course of events was precisely the same as in Nova Scotia, which formed the model for the advocates of responsible government in that province.! In Prince Edward Island there was more delay and difficulty. Up to March 1849 the Imperial Government had defrayed part of the Civil List charges of the island, but on that date the payments were stopped, and by a dispatch of December 27, 1849, the Secretary of State offered to surrender the Crown lands, funds, quit-rents and permanent revenues belonging to the Crown in exchange for a Civil List, and later, in a dispatch of February 18, 1850, he expressed the view that the Imperial Government would be prepared to concede responsible government in exchange for a Civil List. The Legislature then passed a Civil List Act, but declined entirely to deal with business for the present until the Executive Government should be brought into harmony with the legislative body. The Civil List Act contained a provision that it was conditional on the surrender of the Crown revenues, and on the grant of a system of responsible government similar to that which was in force in the Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, and it omitted to make any provision for the pensions of retiring officers. The Secretary of State decided to accept the proposal of the Legislature, subject to certain detailed modifications in the Civil List, to the omission of the requirement regarding responsible government, and to the provision of pensions for the officers retiring on political grounds. The reasons for his decision were that the grant of responsible govern- ment had never been embodied as a condition in similar Acts, and there was good reason why it should not be 80, for the term, though very well understood for practical purposes, had no definite meaning in law, and it was therefore impossible to say what would be a fulfilment of the condition, within the technical sense, which might be put by legal * The process was only complete in 1854 ; see Hannay, New Brunswick. ii. 47, 79, 117, 133, 170 seq.

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