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

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cHAP. Iv] IMMIGRATION OF COLOURED RACES 1095 vided by Ordinance No. 35 of 19011 if it can be adapted to that purpose. There remains the question whether new-comers should be compelled without exception to trade in bazaars or locations. [t seems certain that those who will come in under the pro- posed Immigration Restriction Ordinance, and they should be very few, will not be Asiatics of a low class, and will not, therefore, be such persons as could properly be required for sanitary reasons to reside in a special location. I am of opinion, that until it is proved that the Immigration Restric- tion Ordinance has failed to limit the influx to a minimum as it is expected to do, and in view of the absence of any legislation of the kind in the Cape Colony or Natal, the Ordinance to be passed in the present session should not limit the right of new-comers in respect of trade. The two Ordinances which the Transvaal Government propose to pass during the present session of the Council should contain a suspending clause, or be reserved for the signification of His Majesty’s pleasure. As a matter of fact, all this time Asiatics were kept from re-entering the Colony under the Peace Preservation Ordinance No. 5 of 1903, which was merely a measure aimed at excluding persons likely to disturb the public peace. In 1906, just before responsible government, the Legislature passed an Asiatics Law Amendment Ordinance, requiring the registration of all resident Asiatics. The law was disallowed by the Imperial Government, but a similar law (No. 2) was at once introduced on the assembling of the first responsible-govern- ment Legislature late in that year, and passed unanimously in both Houses, so that the Imperial Government assented to it as ‘ they would not be justified in offering resistance to the general will of the Colony clearly expressed by its first elected representatives ’,2 although Lord Elgin’s dispatch went on to say that His Majesty’s Government did not con- sider the position of natives lawfully resident in the Transvaal as settled by the Act satisfactory. Worse remained from the Indian point of view ; an Act, No. 15 of 1907, was passed to restrict immigration, which was intended to exclude from This Ordinance was passed under Crown Colony Government to enable the Government to free coloured persons of superior status from the degrading restrictions necessarily imposed on ordinary coloured persons. * Parl. Pap., Cd. 3887, p. 9. Cf. Cd. 3251, 3308; H. C. 65, 1907.

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