Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 2)

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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-

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1896935052

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-238139

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

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 2

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: XI Seiten, Seiten 570-1100

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part IV. The federations and the union // Chapter II. The commonwealth of Australia

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CHAPTER III THE UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA § 1. THE ForMatioN oF THE UNION Ar the beginning of February 1909 the National Conven- tion, which had sat at Durban and at Capetown, concluded its labours and laid before the public of South Africa in the form of a Bill the scheme which the members of the Conven- tion had agreed on for the Union of South Africa, to be constituted in the first instance from among the four Colonies of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, the Transvaal, and the Orange River Colony, or from any two or more which would consent to join. The draft Act was then laid formally before the four Colonial Parliaments, and amendments to the draft were discussed in each. Of these none were carried in the Transvaal. In the case of Natal several were adopted, and the Government in accepting the Act declared that it must be submitted to a referendum before the Colony accepted union. In the other two Colonies the draft was accepted subject to certain amendments. The National Convention reassembled at Bloemfontein in May and discussed the draft with the amendments proposed by the Parliaments of the Cape and Natal, and the result was that the draft was re- affirmed with certain alterations and signed by the delegates of all the Colonies as altered on May 11. It was then submitted to the judgements of the several Parliaments and to a referendum under Act No. 2 of 1909 in the case of Natal. Delegates were appointed by the Parliaments after approving the revised draft to proceed to England, and to secure the passing of the Bill into law as an Act of the Imperial Parlia- ment, and the Bill' was introduced accordingly in the House ‘ Printed as Parl. Pap., Cd. 4525, as revised by the Convention as Cd. 4721, and, revised, as H. L. 113, 1909, for introduction into Parliament. The Act is 9 Edw. VIL ¢. 9. See Brand, Union of South Africa (1909); Keith, Journ. Soc. Comp. Ley., x. 40-92; Egerton, Federations and Unions, pp. 231-91, and the Debates of the Colonies for 1909.

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