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

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Year of publication:: 1912-

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Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

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Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

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JHAP. I] ORIGIN AND HISTORY 23 loss of office. The Lieutenant-Governor endeavoured to induce them to reconsider the decision, but in vain, and he then acquiesced in the result without making any attempt to dissolve Parliament and appeal to the country against his ministers. His action was attacked in the Imperial House of Commons on March 26, 1849, but was successfully defended by the Secretary of State. In New Brunswick also there was delay in adopting the principles of responsible government, to which, as usual, the Lieutenant-Governor was not partial. But events in Nova Scotia precipitated action, and on February 4, 1847, there was presented to the Lieutenant-Governor, Sir E. Head, an address praying that there might be laid before the House any dispatch from the Secretary of State regarding the tenure of office in the province or responsible govern- ment. Accordingly an extract from Earl Grey’s dispatch to Sir John Harvey was laid before the House, and on February 24 the House resolved, by a majority of twenty-three to eleven, that it should approve of the principles laid down in that dispatch, and of their application to the case of New Brunswick. In the case of Prince Edward Island there was some delay in the granting of full self-government, partly due to the fact that there was a feud between the proprietors of the island and their tenants, which proved wholly incapable of solution until, on entry into the Dominion, the proprietors were bought out at the cost of the Dominion. Efforts were, how- ever, made to secure some degree of harmony between the Assembly and the Executive Government, and in a petition of 1847 3 the House of Assembly asked for the appointment of four members of the Executive Council from their numbers. ' Parl. Pap., H. C. 621, 1848, pp. 33-40. Cf. Letters and Speeches of J. Howe, i. 553, 562-4. * Parl. Pap., H. C. 621, 1848, p. 40. In 1832 the Executive and Legislative Councils had been separated ; see Lord Glenelg’s dispatch of April 30, 1837, in Canada Sess. Pap. 1883, No. 70, p. 18. The separation in Canada was introduced by the Act 31 Geo. IIL c. 31. * Parl. Pap., H. C. 566. 1847. See also the Address to the Crown of March 23. 1850.

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