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:: Chapter VIII. The constitutional relations of the houses

Collection:: Economics Books

810 PARLIAMENTS OF THE DOMINIONS [PART III action, and petitions were sent home and presented by deputation to the Secretary of State. On April 9, however, the Governor telegraphed that Parliament had been prorogued, that the Appropriation and other Bills had been passed, that the political excitement was subsiding and that the Colony was tranquil; the deputation to Sir Michael Hicks-Beach was therefore dis- missed with vague assurances. The petitions also received no definite answer, on the ground that the difficulties had been disposed of by agreement.? On March 17, 187832 the Governor reported that he had consented to sign a warrant prepared in accordance with the resolution of the Legislative Assembly, and authorized by the forty-fifth section of the Constitution Statute, whereby the costs and expenses of the collection of revenue were constituted a special appropriation. The Governor had consented to sign it on the written opinion of the law officers of the Crown and a certificate from the Commissioners of Audit. Moreover, the sum was necessary to keep the Government going, and it was only to be used if the Upper House declined to pass the appropriation. His ministers, however, were not prepared to refer the question of its legality to any tribunal whatever, and they were dissatisfied with the action of the Governor in sending home the question with a request for the advice of the law officers of the Crown in England? The questions at issue were being adjusted by a compromise, and the Appropriation Bill was passed and Parliament prorogued. The Governor sent home long dispatches on the 11th and 12th of April 18785 in which he defended his action and explained the steps he had taken to secure the settlement of the deadlock. It was of vital importance, in his opinion, to avoid the removal of a Ministry by a Governor’s own individual act on account of proceedings of purely Colonial concern. He justified his action by the precedents of Lord Elgin in Canada from 1848 to 1851, and of Lord Dufferin in the same ' Parl. Pap., C. 2173, p. 22. * Ibid., p. 30. s Ibid., p. 32 + Ibid. pp. 50, 51. § Ibid., pp. 54 seq., 63 seq.

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