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:: Chapter VIII. The constitutional relations of the houses

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cHAP. vii] RELATIONS OF THE HOUSES 603 again on October 16 rejected by the Council. Ministers this time advised a dissolution, and the House was prorogued on November 8 and dissolved on December 30. The general election followed in February 1868. During the period of the deadlock the system of confessing judgement for salaries and paying them without further authority continued, but in December this plan was upset by the decision of the Supreme Court in the case of Alcock v. Fergie! It was arranged in that case by the barristers, who wished to em- barrass the Government, that indirectly the matter should be brought before the Court, which decided that the recover- ing of a judgement against the Crown did not authorize the payment of the amounts of such a judgement unless Parlia- ment had previously voted the necessary funds. The general election increased the majority of the ministers by making their numbers up to sixty, but Mr. Fellows re- signed his seat in the Council and was elected to the Assembly. Meanwhile, however, Lord Carnarvon had succeeded the Duke of Buckingham as Colonial Secretary. On January 1 he sent a dispatch? in which he told the Governor that he ought not again to recommend the vote for the expenditure to the Legislature unless on a clear understanding that it would be brought before the Legislative Council in a manner which would enable them to exercise their discretion respecting it without the necessity of throwing the Colony into confusion. In a later dispatch? of February 1, on the other hand, he said that the proposed grant was not so clear and unmistakable a violation of the existing rule as to call for the extreme measure of forbidding the Governor to be party, under the advice of his responsible ministers, to those formal acts which were necessary to bring the grant under the consideration of the Parliament, and he then went on to suggest that the Council should no longer continue to oppose itself to the ascertained wishes of the community. On the receipt of the first of these ' See Purl. Pap., H. C. 157, 1868, pp. 41 seq. * Ibid., p. 49. * 1bid., p. 50. The inconsistency is really rather marked, and it is curious that the later dispatch ignores the carlier.

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