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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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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Title:: Part II. The executive Government

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cmap. vii] CABINET SYSTEM IN DOMINIONS 315 Commissioner and Minister of Education. In British Columbia there are besides the Premier, who is Minister of Mines, a Minister of Finance and Agriculture, an Attorney- General, a Provincial Secretary who is Minister also of Education and Immigration, a Chief Commissioner of Lands, a Minister of Works, and a President of the Council, and since 1911 a Minister for Railways. The ministerial salary is five thousand dollars, and there must by law be not more than seven (since 1911 eight) members of the Executive Council, of whom six (seven since 1911) only can be paid salaries.) In Prince Edward Island there is a Premier who is Attorney-General, a Provincial Secretary who is Treasurer and Commissioner of Agriculture, and a Commissioner “of Public Works, while there are five or six members also with- out portfolio. The paid members receive twelve hundred dollars a year. In Saskatchewan the Executive Council consists of a Premier who is President of the Council and Minister of Public Works, a Provincial Treasurer who is Minister of Education and Minister of Railways, Telegraphs and Telephones, an Attorney-General, a Minister of Agricul- ture and Provincial Secretary, and a Minister of Municipal Affairs, the salary being five thousand dollars with an extra thousand for the Premier. In Alberta again the Premier combines the portfolios of Premier, President of Council, Minister of Public Works and Provincial Treasurer, and there are also an Attorney-General and Minister of Education, a Minister of Agriculture and a Provincial Secretary, the salaries being as in Saskatchewan. It will be seen how curiously the division of duties varies, and how great in the cases of Prince Edward Island and in Nova Scotia is the contingent of unpaid members without portfolio, a survival in both cases from the large and amorphous councils period preceding responsible government. In Newfoundland the same phenomenon is to be seen : the ministers include the Premier, who from 1900 to 1908 was Colonial Secretary, an Attorney-General and Minister of Justice. a Minister of Finance and Customs, and a Minister 1 Act 1908, c. 12.

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