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

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sap. vir] RELATIONS OF THE HOUSES 615 the Appropriation Act, which is passed at the end of the session, specifically appropriates to the various services the sums granted in Committee of Supply, and by a covering grant of ways and means provides the money required to meet the whole of the supplies granted for the year. In a further dispatch of August 25, 1878! the Secretary of State expressed regret that it had not been found possible to arrange for a general reinstatement of the members of the Civil Service of the Colony. He could not agree that there was anything unconstitutional in the Governor’s questioning the course taken with regard to these public officers ; the removal of so many officers involved a consti- tutional question of great importance as a precedent in all self-governing Colonies, namely, the position of the permanent civil servants. There was no intention to carry out a scheme of reduction of the service, and the officers had been dismissed solely to economize the funds at the dis- posal of the Government. The Governor was obliged, in so grave a matter, to satisfy himself that the action proposed by his ministers was justifiable, and after making every allowance for the difficulties of his position the Secretary of State did not think that the emergency was of such a character as to justify the course which had been adopted. In a dispatch of July 13, 1878, the Governor communicated the message with which he had opened the second session of the ninth Parliament on the 9th of that month. In his speech, which was of course an expression of ministerial views, he said that it was proposed to lay before the Houses a measure of constitutional reform intended to put an end for all time to the recurrence of those periodical deadlocks which were so injurious to trade and commerce, and a stand- ing disgrace to the constitutional institutions of Victoria. He remarked that unfortunately the attempt to embody in comparatively rigid law the elasticity. inherent in the principles and practice of the British Constitution had not been completely successful, and differences in the inter- pretation of the Constitution Act had resulted in bringing : Parl. Pap., C2217, p. 1. Pu rl . P a 0) ,, OU Lull 3 , Pn . 99

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