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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1078 ADMINISTRATION AND LEGISLATION [PART V legislated and imposed a poll-tax of £100, and allowed only one Chinese to three hundred tons, and, while the Bill was still én posse, there was held a conference of all the states in Sydney in June 1888. It was agreed then to adopt the principle of no poll-tax and one Chinese to every five hundred tons,?2 and to penalize transit across the Colonial borders. The New South Wales Government promised to amend their Act if two other Colonies adopted the legislation approved by the Conference, and on this understanding the Bill was allowed to become law. The result was that Victoria and South Australia legislated in 1888 on the lines of the agree- ment ; Western Australia followed suit in 1889 ; Queensland legislated in 1888, going beyond the lines of the Conference by increasing the penalties and diminishing the exemptions ; this Bill was only allowed in 1889 (No. 22), after having been reserved, on a promise of amendment, and an amending Bill was passed in 1890 (No. 29), reserved, and assented to, but further amendments were vainly asked for by the Secretary of State. New Zealand in 1888 passed an Act (No. 34) which increased the restrictions and the penalties. In 1893 Western Australia, now a self-governing Colony, threw in its lot with the others and prohibited the importation of Chinese under the labour law of 1884, but this was modified in 1897 (No. 27) by permitting such importation of indentured labour north of the 27° south latitude, and restricting the number to one for five hundred tons. New Zealand passed in 1896 another Act (No. 19) against Chinese, which limited the number imported to one for two hundred tons and in- creased the poll-tax to £100. In 1907 an Act (No. 79) was passed requiring any Chinese immigrant to be able to read a printed passage of not less than a hundred words of English, ! Parl. Pap., C. 5448, pp. 35 seq. Cf. also Dilke, Problems of Greater Britain, i. 146, 147 ; Parkes, Fifty Years of Australian History, ii. 204-31. * The Imperial Government was to ask the Chinese Government to arrange for restriction of the entry of Chinese, and a joint representation for this end was agreed on. The Chinese exclusion movement in America had just then come to its height, and influenced the Colonies in their views of action; a treaty of March 1888 had agreed to restriction, but failed to become law.

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