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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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

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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Title:: Part I. Introductory

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24 RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT [PART I Even then the grant of self-government which the Assembly claimed to have been foreshadowed in 1839 was delayed until 1851, when it came into full effect. In the case of British Columbia self-government was granted on its entry into the Dominion of Canada, by the creation of a representative Legislature by an Order in Council of August 9, 1870, under the Act 33 & 34 Vict. c. 66 and by the local Act No. 147, 1871, and was continued by the instructions to the Lieutenant-Governor given by the Dominion Government ; it already had an Executive distinct from a Legislative Council : the same remark applies also to Manitoba, which was created entirely by Dominion Acts and instructions, and to Alberta and Saskatchewan in 1905, though much earlier a certain limited self-government had been conferred upon the North-west Provinces, in 1897.1 In the case of Newfoundland representative government had rather a stormy inception: the Legislature was dis- tracted by a quarrel between the two Houses as to appropria- tion, which prevented the usual Acts being passed in 1837 and 1839; then questions of privilege led to much excite- ment and ill-feeling, and the interference of the Catholic clergy in elections produced strong party disturbances. Already, in 18422 an Imperial Act was passed to allow the Crown to establish a property qualification for members not to exceed a hundred pounds income or £500 capital value, to lengthen up to two years the periods of residence laid down in the Commission of 1832 authorizing the summoning of a legislature, to amalgamate the two Houses provided that there should never be more than two-fifths of the members nominee members, to forbid money votes being brought forward save on the advice of the Government, and so forth. The Act was a temporary one, and was extended for one vear in 1846, and in 1847 3 the provisions ! See Mr. Sifton in Canada House of Commons Debates, 1897, ii, 4115, pxplaining the Act 60 & 61 Viet. c. 28. * 5 & 6 Viet. ¢. 120. ® 10 & 11 Vict. c. 44. The provisions are still law under instructions of 1842 and May 4, 1855, which carry out the powers given by the Acts.

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