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

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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294 THE EXECUTIVE GOVERNMENT [PART II ultimately to be assented to by the Crown. In the light of the information now furnished His Majesty’s Government recognize that the decision of this grave matter rests in the hands of your Ministers and yourself. The manner in which you have placed the various aspects of this question before your Ministers from the 16th March onwards has my approval ; but I regret that you did not keep me informed by telegraph of the steps you were taking, or that the telegram announcing the imminent execution of these twelve men did not contain the detailed information which has now been given in reply to my telegram of the 28th. It was this lack of information which necessitated my telegram.— ELGIN. [n a dispatch of April 191 the Secretary of State corrected the error committed by the Governor in treating the matter as falling under the royal instructions as to pardon. He wrote :— I observe that in your telegram, No. 2, of 10th April, you speak of the Executive Council having advised you to exercise “the prerogative of mercy’. It seems doubtful whether this phrase can properly be applied in cases of sentences by courts martial under martial law, and I am disposed to think that it would be more correct to say that the Executive Council had advised you not to confirm the death sentences. Similarly, in your minute to Ministers of 17th March you speak of death sentences (by courts martial under martial law) being considered in Executive Council ‘in accordance with Royal Instructions’. It is clear, however, from the decision of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on the 2nd of April 2 that such sentences cannot be regarded as being on the same footing as sentences pronounced by lawfully established Courts to which the Royal Instructions refer. In making these remarks, I beg that you will not under- stand me as in the least degree questioning the propriety of your acting in concurrence with your Ministers in matters arising out of the present application of martial law. Meanwhile the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia telegraphed to express the view that interference even as to the prerogative of pardon with a self-governing Colony would establish a dangerous precedent with regard to all the states of the Empire, and appealed for a reconsidera- ' Parl. Pap., Cd. 2905, p. 44. ¢ Ibid., Cd. 2927.

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