Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 3)

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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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Identifikator:: 1896935311

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-237672

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 3

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: XII Seiten, Seiten 1102-1670

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part V. Imperial control over Dominion administration and legislation

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1110 ADMINISTRATION AND LEGISLATION [PART Vv British ships manned by white labour. The Bill was reserved because of representations of the Imperial Govern- ment as to its conflicting with treaties (especially the Russian of 1859 and the Austro-Hungarian of 1868), and it. did not come into operation. As a result of the incident and of the Conference, power was obtained in 1907-8, by negotiation with Paraguay, Egypt, and Liberia, to withdraw in respect of any self-governing Dominion on a year’s notice. It must not, however, be thought that by obtaining power to withdraw or to exempt self-governing Dominions from the obligations of treaties, those Dominions are by that fact shut out from the benefits of the treaties in question. The rights given by the treaties may be divided into two classes. In the first place there are rights which may be roughly described as political, such as privileges and exemptions in favour of consular agencies; the right to carry on internal commerce ; exemption from compulsory military service ; from judicial and administrative and municipal functions (other than those imposed by the laws relating to juries) ; exemption from contributions imposed as an equivalent for personal service; exemption from military exactions or requests, except compulsory billeting and other military exactions to which subjects of the country may be liable as owners or occupiers of real property ; the right to acquire property movable or immovable; the right to dispose of property by inheritance and similar conditions. On the other hand, there are matters which are practically purely commercial, such as scales of import duties, and it is clear that a distinction must be drawn between the two classes. An Australian, for example, as a British subject, must be held to be entitled in Japan to all the privileges given to British subjects by the Treaty of 1911, although the Common- wealth is not bound by that treaty. On the other hand, it is equally clear that goods from Australia are not entitled to the special tariff granted by the Treaty of 1911 to goods from the United Kingdom, and as a matter of fact they are not accorded such treatment, and one of the great obstacles to the development of commercial intercourse between the Common-

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