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. v] THE GOVERNOR AND THE LAW 259 their action and refused their advice, with the result of 8 retirement of the Ministry, when their action in spending money was criticized severely by Sir Wilfrid Laurier, and they retorted by censuring the new Government for spending money before Parliament voted it.! And in 1909, in New Zealand, when the Prime Minister required to go to England on the invitation of the Imperial Government, to attend the naval and military conference of that year, he would not go until he had induced Parliament to meet for a brief period and pass supply (Act No, 1), so as to provide means for carry- ing on the Government in his absence. In 1910 matters were simplified by passing a general Act, No. 43, allowing for expenditure at current rates for the first quarter of each new financial year. Another aspect of the question was shown in the famous Darling case in Victoria :2 Sir C. Darling in that case, where the Lower and the Upper Houses were at variance, sanctioned the levying of duties on a mere resolution of the Lower House, the raising of a loan without legislative sanction, the sum being made a legal debt by an admission of liability under the Crown Remedies Act, 28 Vict. No. 241, and the payment of official salaries without appropriation. The opinion of the Secretary of State on these proceedings was conveyed in two dispatches of November 27, 1865, and February 26, 1866, from which the following are extracts. After reciting the law of 22 Vict. No. 86, under which appropriations required the sanction of the Audit Commis- sioners, who had to be satisfied that the sums were legally available, and the signature of the Governor, and the Crown Remedies Act, which empowered the Governor to satisfy from the consolidated fund the demand of a claimant against the Colonial Government who had obtained a certificate from the Supreme Court of the validity of his claim, he proceeded : In this state of the law the Government, with your sanction, prevailed upon one of the banks in which a ¢ Public ' House of Commons Debates, 1896, Sess. 2, pp. 1634 seq. (Sir C. Tupper’s view of the duty of a Governor). Cf. also Pope, Sir John Macdonald, 217, for Sir J. Macdonald’s view in 1859. ? See below, pp. 605 seq. QQ

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