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

Scope:: LI, 568 Seiten

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Title:: Part I. Introductory

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22 RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT [PART 1 having a majority in the Assembly, and on the other hand he urged that, as a rule, public officers should hold as in the United Kingdom by a permanent tenure, while a limited number of officers should be political officers, viz. the Attorney-General, the Solicitor-General, the Provincial Secretary, and possibly two more officers, and he advised that salaries be attached to two or three places in the Executive Council to secure the services of qualified men. Moreover, any political changes which required the surrender of offices hitherto deemed to be permanent should be accom- panied by the grant of pensions. In January 1848 the dispatch from the Secretary of State was laid before the Legislature, and at the same time the attention of the Houses was called to the proposals of the Imperial Government for the surrender of the Crwn revenues in return for the grant by Act of a Civil List. The Assembly asserted its approval of the principles enumerated in the dispatch, and promised to consider the question of a Civil List, and then proceeded to defeat the Government by twenty- nine to twenty-two votes. The members of the Executive Council tendered their resignations, with the exception of the Provincial Secretary, and; as the opposition declined to take office without being accorded as a political post that of Secretary, it was necessary to remove the Secretary from office by the exercise of the prerogative. In the case of the other two political officers, the Attorney-General and the Solicitor-General, trouble was avoided by their voluntary resignation, and the new Government, on February 8, 1848, asserted formally its concurrence in the views of the Secretary of State as to the permanency of ordinary public posts. The establishment of responsible government was finally perfected by the election of the Attorney-General and the Provincial Secretary for the constituencies to which they had submitted themselves after accepting office. Matters, however, were not yet disposed of, as unhappily the new Government insisted on the dismissal of the Treasurer, whose post it was intended to divide into two, a Receiver-General and a Financial Secretary, without compensation to him for

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