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. viiT] RELATIONS OF THE HOUSES 607 for the time being with the services of a number of civil servants and minor judicial officers. The Governor reported * on the question on January 23, 1878, supporting the views of the House of Assembly, and alluded to the difficulty of dealing with the Council in view of its powers over finance and the absence of power to appoint further members, as was possible in the case of nominee Councils. On December 31, 1877, the Governor transmitted a memorandum by Mr. Graham Berry on the subject of the difficulties which had arisen? He pointed out the great inconvenience of the rejection of the Appropriation Bill and of the Defence Bill; supply would be exhausted early in March, when the local forces, the police, the jails, and the public service could no longer be paid or maintained, unless the Governor would sign warrants for the expenditure although Parliament had not voted the money. Moreover, there was the possibility of foreign aggression, and the Colony would be rendered defenceless by the failure of supply. It was therefore urged upon the Governor that it had been the practice prior to 1862 to apply public money to the services of the year on the report of the Committee of Supply to the Assembly, without waiting for any other authority. Former Governors habitually signed warrants for the issue of public money, although the Council had not sanctioned the expenditure. By reverting to the former practice (which had been changed by adopting in 1862 the sending to the Council of Supply Bills though they still contained a clause appropriating the amount so voted to purposes to be determined by the Legislative Assembly in the then session of Parliament), the difficulty of supply could be constitutionally avoided. The Solicitor-General of Victoria in 1858 was of opinion that the moneys could be legally issued from the Treasury, on the ground of custom and precedent, on the resolution of the Assembly, and thought that this was also the practice of the House of Commons, and this opinion was concurred in by the then Attorney- General and the law officers of the Colony in 1865 and 1877. * Parl. Pap., C. 1982, pp. 31, 43 seq. 2 Thid., pp. 38 seq.

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