Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 2)

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Identifikator:: 1896933912

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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 III. The treatment of native races

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Bi CHAPTER III THE TREATMENT OF NATIVE RACES § 1. RESERVATION OF BILLS WHILE the Imperial Government has always been marked for the great attention which it has paid to considerations affecting the treatment of natives in the Crown Colonies, it is at first sight curious that there should be so little provision in the royal instructions for the reservation of measures affecting natives. There is nothing at all in the royal instructions for Canada or Newfoundland ; nothing in the case of the Commonwealth of Australia or the Australian states, or the Dominion of New Zealand, and the only pro- visions were those inserted, first in the Natal royal instruc- tions of 1893, and then in the Transvaal and Orange River Colony letters patent of December 6, 1906, and June 5, 1907, respectively, which required the reservation of Bills differen- tially affecting persons not of European origin or descent. In the case of these three Colonies there were further pro- visions, for it was expressly laid down in the case of Natal in the royal instructions that in matters in which the Governor acted as Supreme Chief of the natives he should communicate what he intended to do to his Ministers before acting, but that the. final decision must rest with him and not with ministers. In the latter two cases it was provided, in the letters patent granting responsible government, as follows :— LI. (1) The Governor shall continue to exercise over all chiefs and natives in the Colony all power and authority aow vested in him as Paramount Chief. (2) The Governor in Council may at any time summon an assembly of native chiefs, and also, if it shall seem expedient, of other persons having special knowledge and experience in native affairs, to discuss with the Governor, or such representative as the Governor in Council may

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