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 III. The Parliaments of the Dominions

Collection:: Economics Books

478 PARLIAMENTS OF THE DOMINIONS [PART III received such money within three years before, are not entitled to be registered as voters. In British Columbia no Indian shall have his name placed on the list of voters. In Ontario an enfranchised Indian can vote, and on certain conditions the franchise is given to unenfranchised Indians, but they are normally excluded from the vote. The other disqualifications are practically all on the same lines. The various Provincial Acts disqualify Judges of the Supreme Court and of the County Courts, persons dis- qualified on the ground of corrupt practices, lunatics, idiots, and persons who are confined in asylums or prisons, and paupers or persons in receipt of charitable relief. In addition to these disqualifications there are minor disqualifications in various provinces. In Manitoba any person who is not a British subject by birth, and who has not resided in some portion of Canada for at least seven years preceding the date of registration of electors is only entitled to the franchise if he can read a selected portion or portions of the Manitoba Act in English, French, German, Icelandic, or any Scandinavian language, but there is a saving of rights for persons who had at an earlier date secured their entry on the registration rolls, Chinese are excluded from the franchise by Act 1908, c. 2, of Saskatchewan, and they are excluded along with the Japanese in British Columbia under the Act 1899, ¢. 25 and ability to read is required by the Act 4 Edw. VIL. ¢. 17.2 Plural voting is not allowed save to a limited extent in Prince Edward Island. In Newfoundland the franchise is provided for under chapter 3 of the Revised Statutes, 1892.3 The provisions in question are as follows :— Every male British subject of the full age of twenty-one years, who for two years preceding the day of election has been resident in this Colony, and is of sound understanding, shall be competent to vote for the election of members of Cf. Cunningham v. Tomey Homma, [1903] A. C. 151. ? Cf. Provincial Legislation, 1904-6, p. 29. * The residential qualification is imposed by royal instructions of May 4, 1855; under 5 & 6 Vict. ¢. 120 (made perpetual as to this point by 10 & 11 Vict. c. 44),

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