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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CHAP. 1] ORIGIN AND HISTORY 29 sible government on the same terms of the grant of a suitable Civil List and the undertaking to make proper provision for both civil and military expenditure. This dispatch crossed a dispatch from Sir W. Denison of February 14, 1854.1 in which he reviewed the reasons in favour of the grant of responsible government to Tasmania, and pressed for its adoption. He expressed the hope that there would be no objection to the adoption, instead of the principle of nomina- tion, of the principle of election for the Upper House. In his reply of August 3, 1854.2 the Secretary of State confirmed the dispatch of January 30, and expressed the view that the principle of election might be conceded. He referred to the delay in dealing with the Bills of the other three Colonies, and suggested that a Bill might be passed in Tasmania forthwith, and urged that it would be convenient if, unlike the other Bills, that from Tasmania kept within the legal powers of the Legislative Council. The reply to this was the passing of the Tasmanian Act, 18 Vict. No. 17, which constituted a Parliament and granted a Civil List, and which was reserved for the roval assent by the Lieutenant- Governor? In the three Bills of New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia, an ingenious attempt was made to distinguish between Bills which were of Imperial concern and those which were not of such concern. The latter the Governor was to assent to at his discretion, or to reject, but the Crown had no further power with regard to them. But in the case of the former, besides the power of assent or rejection, in which the discretion of the Governor could be fettered by royal instructions, there was also the power of reservation subject to such instructions, and even after assent there was a power of disallowance. In the case of South Australia there was no attempt made to decide in the Act what were matters of Imperial interest and what not. Any doubt on the question was left to be decided by the Privy Council, but it was otherwise both in the case of New South Wales and of Victoria. The provisions in the case of Victoria * Parl. Pap., March 1855, p. 1. ® Ibid, p. 20. * Ibid, pp. 11 seq.

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