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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Identifikator:: 1896934455

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-236504

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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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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part II. The executive Government

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154 THE EXECUTIVE GOVERNMENT [PARTI antiquated in form. They are, however, the same as the terms of the former Cape instructions. In the case of the instruc- tions of 1892 and 1900 to the Australian States, which agree in substance with those of New Zealand, a much milder form is adopted, which removes the suggestion that the Governor is to act without the advice of his Council in urgent or trivial cases, or in cases when consultation would be prejudicial to the Colony, provisions borrowed from the system of Crown Colony administration, which are now antiquated and absurd. It was the presence of this clause, among other things, in the instructions of the Governor of New Zealand which induced his legal adviser in 1854 to doubt whether it was possible or intended to introduce full responsible government within the Colony ; yet the new form was only introduced in New Zealand and the States in 1892. In the case of the Transvaal in 1906, and the Orange River Colony in 1907, the same terms were adopted as in the case of the Australian States, and the same terms appeared also in the Natal instructions of 1893. But in the Natal instructions it was provided that this rule should not apply to the powers of the Governor as Supreme Chief, but that in the exercise of such powers, other, of course, than those vested in the Governor in Council by law, he should acquaint his ministers with his proposed action, and as far as possible arrange with them the course of action he intended to adopt, but the ultimate decision in every case must rest with the Governor. There was no similar provision in the instructions for the Transvaal, and the Orange River Colony, no doubt because the result of these instructions had been practically of no effect, but it was pro- vided by law in the letters patent creating the Legislature that the Governor should exercise over the natives all power and authority vested in him as paramount chief, and the use of the term ‘ Governor ’ in that clause as contrasted with the use of the term ‘ Governor in Council’ in the next clause, relative to the holding, if thought fit, of meetings of the natives, was evidently intended to insist upon the personal action of the Governor, if he thought it necessary so to act. The following extract from the instructions to the Governor

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