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 II. Imperial control over the inernal affairs of the dominions

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[Ee CHAPTER 1I IMPERIAL CONTROL OVER THE INTERNAL AFFAIRS OF THE DOMINIONS IN matters really affecting only internal affairs there has been a complete change in system since the grant of re- sponsible government. As a return presented to the House of Commons in 1864! shows, before the coming into effect of responsible government there were repeated cases of dis- allowance on such grounds as that the legislation suggested did not commend itself to the wisdom of the Imperial Govern- ment. Thus all efforts by Prince Edward Island to dispose of its land question were for years unavailing, and the matter only became arranged by a grant from the Dominion on federation. In the case of the United Province of Canada in 1843 the Governor reserved, despite the protest of ministers who resigned in consequence, a Secret Societies Bill, and in due course the Imperial Government intimated that it would not be allowed? In 1846 the Imperial Government dis- allowed a Bill which allowed the attachment of an officers salary on the ground that no such measure was in force in the United Kingdom and they did not approve the policy of it.3 In 1849 an Act for the incorporation of the town of Bytown, passed in 1847, was disallowed, though another Act passed in 1849 was assented to. In 1858 the Governor of New South Wales assented to a Bill to impose an assessment on runs and to increase the rent of leased lands, one of his law officers, the Solicitor-General, thinking that it was legal, while the other thought that it was not legal. The Secretary * Parl. Pap., H. C. 529, 1864. * Canada Legislative Assembly Journals, 1846, p. 43. * Ibid., 1850, p. 7. ? Ihid., n. 27.

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