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 II. The executive Government

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CHAP. I] THE GOVERNOR 101 The official rules as to correspondence are laid down in detail in the Colonial Office rules. They contain a classifica- tion of dispatches into public (which are numbered), confi- dential, and secret. Of the two latter categories there are two kinds in a responsible-government Colony, those which are intended for ministers but deal with matters of military or naval policy, or foreign relations, or similar questions, personal and constitutional matters and so forth, which must not be published without prior communication with the Imperial Government. The degree of secrecy is illustrated by the use of ‘ secret ’ or © confidential > respectively. Others of the secret dispatches are personal to the Governor ; and such dispatches he can only disclose to ministers so far as is expressly or impliedly contained therein. The Governor’s dispatches are likewise public, confidential, or secret, but the Secretary of State has the full right to publish all or any of these dispatches. In the new edition of the Colonial Regula- tions this practice is qualified by the express statement that he will usually consult the Governor ere he does so, and this but embodies the practice of years, and is obviously due in courtesy to the Governor and his Government. The power of publication at pleasure has never been applied, of course, to the confidential or secret communications of ministers to the Governor, but only to his dispatches. Sir G. Grey distinguished himself by declining indignantly to receive a communication for the Secretary of State as confidential, one of the misdemeanours resulting in his recall, and indeed a gross violation of public decency? ! Colonial Regulations, No. 178. There also are ‘accounts’ dispatches, which deal with matters emanating from the Accounts Department of the Colonial Office, Library’ dispatches, and ¢ miscellaneous’ dispatches, which emanate from the Chief Clerk’s Department, and deal with honours, precedence, &c. * Petitions to the King must (and very possibly the Governor might be liable to suit for disobeying the rule) be sent on with a report, and all such petitions are submitted to the King ; Colonial Regulations, No. 214, The rules as to military correspondence in cases where there are Imperial troops in the Colony are given in Nos. 192-8. 3 Rusdon. New Zealand, ii. 355 seq. ; Parl. Pap., May 5, 1868.

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