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-

Collection:: Economics Books

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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

Scope:: LI, 568 Seiten

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part II. The executive Government

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260 THE EXECUTIVE GOVERNMENT [PART II Account’ was kept, to lend you or them certain sums of money, and to carry that money to a separate account, which was to be acted upon by you or them without the concurrence of the Audit Commissioners; and it was agreed that the Bank should at once petition the Supreme Court under the Act 28 Vict. for repayment of this loan, that your Govern- ment should at once confess judgment, and that you should thereupon enable them to repay themselves out of the * Public Account’ the amount they had placed to this new account. I do not quite clearly understand whether the concurrence of the Audit Commissioners was necessary, or was obtained to this repayment. But this is of minor importance. The effect, practically, was to transfer the public money out of the “ Public Account ’ from which the Bank could not ordinarily issue it, without the Audit Commissioners’ certificate, to an- sther account entirely under the control of the Government. The money so obtained has, I understand, been applied by the Executive Government to the payment of salaries, and I suppose to other immediate purposes specified in the Appropriation Bill, which the Council refused to pass. [ infer that it is by the extension and continuation of this process that the Government has been since carried on. This, I think, is a correct statement of the material facts, on which I proceed to express my opinion. First. I have no hesitation in saying that independently of the Judgment of the Supreme Court, no consideration, at least none that is discernible in your despatches, should have induced you to give your concurrence to the levying of these duties. The plea that taxes are levied in this country on a vote of the House of Commons before they are imposed by law is manifestly irrelevant. Such taxes are so levied because it is not doubted that the Bill imposing them as from the date of the Resolution of the House of Commons on which the Bill is founded (and after which only they are levied), will become law, by the concurrence of the two other Branches of the Legislature. If such concurrence were withheld, the sums so levied by anticipation would be repaid. and they would of course be no longer levied. But in the present case you and your Government were perfectly aware that the Bill would not receive the sanction of the whole Legislature, and the exaction of these duties was not in anticipation but in defiance of the judgment of the Legislative Council. It was, therefore, not only in its origin anlawful, but there even was every reason to presume that

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