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:: Part V. Imperial control over dominion administration and legislation // Chapter IV. The immigration of coloured races

Collection:: Economics Books

1094 ADMINISTRATION AND LEGISLATION [parTV fear to influence their views in the past. On the contrary, for many years they repeatedly protested before the Empire and the civilized world against the policy and laws of the late South African Republic in relation to this subject. Those laws were indeed only partially enforced, yet His Majesty’s Government is now asked not merely to sanction their strict enforcement, but to set aside by legislation a judgement of the Supreme Court which has given to the British Indian rights for which His Majesty’s Government have strenuously contended. His Majesty's Government cannot believe that the British community in the Transvaal appreciate the true nature of the proposition which some of its members are pressing upon you. They, as Britons, are as jealous of the honour of the British name as ourselves, and even if a material sacrifice were necessary to vindicate that honour, I feel assured they would cheerfully make it. His Majesty’s Government hold that it is derogatory to national honour to impose on resident British subjects disabilities against which we had remon- strated, and to which even the law of the late South African Republic, rightly interpreted, did not subject them, and they do not doubt that when this is perceived the public opinion of the Colony will not any longer support the demand which has been put forward. The second Ordinance proposed, which will take the place of Law No. 3 of 1885, should, therefore, not interfere with the right of those now in the country to obtain licences to trade outside locations, but should be limited to creating the necessary machinery by means, I assume, of municipal Regulations for placing Asiatics in locations in accordance with the law, and should provide, in the case both of present residents and of new-comers, that those required to live in locations or bazaars should be so required for sanitary reasons in each case, whilst those of a superior class should be exempted and allowed to reside anywhere. With regard to the question of the holding of land, British Indians who are entitled to reside outside locations must at least have the right to acquire property in the premises which they occupy for business purposes. His Majesty’s Government are also anxious that the con- cessions which you favour respecting the exemption of Asiatics of the better class, including all respectable shop- keepers and traders, from humiliating disabilities under municipal and other regulations applying to coloured per- sons, should be secured as far as possible either under the new Ordinance or by means of the machinery already pro-

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