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 V. Imperial control over dominion administration and legislation // Chapter I. The principles of imperial control

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V WwW ~. SF 8 ir 8 oO 4 oe. gq Mn <3 c < xHAP. 1] PRINCIPLES OF IMPERIAL CONTROL 1021 ‘ncluded in matters affecting the prerogative, will deserve separate treatment, and the question of pardon will be treated of later on. The rules forbidding a Governor to allow himself to receive grants of land or money are a relic from Crown Colony days, when such grants were at the disposal of a Governor, and when he could make himself a legal title by assenting to an Act which he secured the passing of, and then sell the lands, giving a good title to others, so that the mere disallowance was unavailing to prevent him profiting very substantially by his disobedience to orders. But in the self-governing Colonies the matter is also not without importance, for obviously if the Governor could receive gratuities from the Colonial Legislature he might be induced to be faithless to his trust. At any rate, in 1866-8, as has been seen above, the question of the grant of £20,000 to Lady Darling, the wife of Sir Charles Darling, was a clear example of an attempt to reward a Governor for past political services to the Lower House of Victoria, which he had supported against the Upper House. In that case the Governor had retired, and there was no question of his receiving the sum through an Act assented to by himself, but the Secretary of State decided that the principle of the independence of Governors must be vindicated at all costs, and the Upper House on its part determined that they would do nothing for a Governor who had thwarted them as far as he could! Eventually the Secretary of State actually took the serious step of declining, in a dispatch of January 1, 1868, to permit the new Governor to take the formal step of asking the Parliament to vote the amount, all money votes requiring the assent of the Governor to their introduction, though he recalled the instruction a month later. There has been no serious case in a self-governing colony of such action since. Morris, Memoir of George Higinbotham, p. 138; above, Part III, hap. viii.

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