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 IV. The immigration of coloured races

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oar. 1v] IMMIGRATION OF COLOURED RACES 1077 legislation (No. 47), The Acts were on the same lines as those of the sixties, imposing a poll-tax on arrival of £10, and limiting the number by the tonnage, in New Zealand and South Australia the limit being one to ten tons, in New South Wales and Victoria one to every hundred tons, while South Australia alone exempted British Chinese subjects from the operation of the rule. Western Australia, however, in 1884 (No. 25) contemplated indentured immigration of Chinese and other Asiatics, and not until 1886 did it pass its first anti-Chinese Act (No. 13), which adopted the poll-tax of £10 a head, but made the proportion one to fifty tons. On the other hand, an Act of 1886 excluded Asiatic or African aliens from holding miners’ rights on a goldfield for five years after proclamation, a provision aimed at the Chinese. In 1884 (No. 13) Queensland raised the tax to £30 a head, which was no longer repayable on departure within three years without having become a public charge or been convicted of crime, and the proportion to one to fifty tons, while Tasmania passed its first anti-Chinese Act (No. 9) in 1887, the proportion being one to a hundred tons and the tax £10. Victoria also began to discriminate against Chinese by factory legislation in 1887 (No. 961). In 1888, however, the whole matter took on a grave aspect. The Chinese Minister had made representations in 1887. and the Secretary of State had addressed a dispatch to the Governors on this topic. Then the Chinese had commenced to pour into the vacant Northern Territory of South Australia s0 that a panic started in the Colonies: South Australia imposed a tax of £10 a head on Chinese immigrants into the Northern Territory, and Victoria and New South Wales refused Chinese permission to land, an action which ultimately was held to be legal in the case of Musgrove v. Chun Teeong Toy! by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, on the ground that an alien had no power to sue on account of non- admittance into a British Colony. Then New South Wales * Parl. Pap., C. 5448, pp. 1, 2; of. pp. 56-8. P [18911 A. C. 272. Cf. 14 V. L. R. 349, which it overruled, and see Hay- araft, Low Quarterly Review, 1894, pp. 165seq.; 14C.T.R. 24; 20C.T. R. 684,

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