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

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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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oHAP. I] CONTROL OVER INTERNAL AFFAIRS 1035 Colony in which they exist. Holding these views regarding the measure, I have felt it impossible to advise Her Majesty the Queen to signify her royal approbation of it, without which I am glad to observe that it will not take effect. In 1861 an Act to incorporate the Roman Catholic Bishop of Charlottetown was refused assent, but it was allowed in the following year (25 Vict. c. 16). Newfoundland has not been very happy in her domestic legislation. In 18582 an Act to provide for the liquidation of the debt incurred in connexion with streets in St. John’s was disallowed, and in 1859 an Act to provide for the payment of the owner’s assessment, to be levied under the provisions of an Act to incorporate the General Water Com- pany, was disallowed ; in 1865 an Act to continue the power of banishment was disallowed, this being in contravention of the principle that criminals should not be turned loose on foreign communities, as asserted later in the case of the Australian bushranger Gardiner.? In 1890 an Act respecting the municipality of St. John’s was disallowed, all these being cases of disallowance on grounds of the unsound policy of the proposals made by the Legislature. To three Acts of 1895, cc. 7, 11, and 12, dealing with loan transactions, ware- house receipts, and elections, the royal assent was not signified as a mark of disapproval of their provisions, but no dis- allowance took place. But in regard to an Act (c. 28) of 1897 which was reserved, the royal assent was withheld, as the Act was little more than a means of misusing the public finances in the interests of a political party. In Victoria an Act of 1860 was reserved ; it purported to abolish the pensions awarded to officers removed on political grounds, and for that reason the royal assent was withheld, but it was given to an amended measure passed in 1864.4 In 1862 another reserved Bill to grant a preferential lien on growing crops without delivery was not assented to, as being too far advanced for the Imperial ideas at the time: it t Parl. Pap., H. C. 196, 1894, p. 7. * Ibid., p. 8. * Parl. Pap., C. 1202. ¢ Parl. Pap., H. C. 196, 1894, pp. 8 9 L PP

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