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-

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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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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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3 rs > g cHAP. II] CONTROL OVER INTERNAL AFFAIRS 1043 St. John’s criticizing the terms of the contract from a legal point of view. 3. Sir Francis Evans also, as representative in this country of the Citizens’ Committee of St. John’s, and on behalf of the holders in this country of Newfoundland Government Bonds, has addressed to me two letters on the subject of the con- tract, copies of which and of my reply are enclosed. 4. I have not yet, as you are aware, been furnished with an authenticated copy of the Act, and am not, therefore, in a position to advise Her Majesty in regard to it, and as I have not been furnished with the report of your Ministers on the statements and charges contained in the petitions and other documents forwarded to me, it would be more in accordance with the usual practice for me to defer dealing with the Petition until they have had an opportunity of replying to the allegations of the opponents of the Act. 5. As, however, most of the points raised have been fully discussed in the minute of Council of the 30th of April last, and as the main facts are already before me, it does not appear to me desirable, in the present position of affairs in the Colony, to delay my reply to the memorial. 6. The step, which I am urged to take, is one for which there is no precedent in the history of colonial administra- tion. The measure the disallowance of which is sought is not only one of purely local concern, but one the provisions of which are almost exclusively of a financial and administra- tive character. 7. The right to complete and unfettered control over financial policy and arrangements is essential to self-govern- ment, and has been invariably acknowledged and respected by Her Majesty’s Government and jealously guarded by the Colonies. The Colonial Government and Legislature are solely responsible for the management of its finances to the people of the Colony, and unless Imperial interests of grave importance were imperilled, the intervention of Her Majesty’s Government in such matters would be an unwarrantable intrusion and a breach of the Charter of the Colony. 8. It is nowhere alleged that the interests of any other part of the Empire are involved, or that the Act is in any way repugnant to Imperial legislation. It is asserted, indeed, that the Contract disposes of assets of the Colony over which its creditors in this country have an equitable, if not a legal, claim, but, apart from the fact that the assets in question are mainly potential, and that the security for * Parl. Pap., C. 8867, pp. 37 seq. 112

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