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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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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1090 ADMINISTRATION AND LEGISLATION [PART Vv § 4. THE ASIATIC QUESTION IN SOUTH AFRICA In 1902 the Cape at last followed the model of Natal in 1897 and passed an Act (No. 47) imposing a dictation test in a European language, to which Yiddish was added in Act No. 30 of 1906, an addition which was the cause of some sarcasms at the expense of the magnates.! Natal renewed and altered in detail the Immigration Restriction Act of 1897 in 1903 (No. 30) and 1906 (No. 3), but of late her chief achievement has been a series of disputes regarding the legislation affecting British Indians. An Act, No. 18 of 1897, regarding licences, required that the licences should be possessed only by merchants who could keep accounts in English, and latterly this was extended by interpretation to mean that they must be able to keep their accounts personally in that language. In 1909, however, this Act was amended (No. 22) to allow of an appeal to the Supreme Court from the refusal of a town body to renew a licence, as it was justly urged that the town authorities were hardly impartial judges of their rivals in business. A Municipal Corporations Bill of 1905 excluded from the municipal franchise all persons who were excluded by an Act No. 8 of 1896 from the Parlia- mentary franchise, and this included Indians ; moreover, its language as regards Indians was deemed discourteous as classing them with barbarous races, and it was refused assent unless amended. In 1908 proposals were also mooted for the cessation of the grant of dealers’ licences to Indians, and the prevention of the holding of existing licences after a given date by Indians, and it was also proposed to prohibit further coloured immigration; but none of these Bills became law, the two regarding dealers’ licences being refused the royal assent after reservation, and a commission of 1909 reported against the second project.? In the Transvaal the irony of fate has produced a strange result; in 1885 the old republic passed a harsh law (No. 3) which refused Indians the citizenship, refused them landed property, ' There has been some contravention of the Act by corrupt practices ; see the report of a Select Committee on the Immigration Department C. 1, 1909. ! Bee Assembly Debates, xliv. 326-72, 455-62, 498-500; xlv. 1-5, 61-76, 131-43, 317; Council Debates. 1908, pp. 70-6, 84-96, 101-3.

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