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-

Collection:: Economics Books

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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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1114 ADMINISTRATION AND LEGISLATION [PaRT Vv Government should accept a similar stipulation with regard to the case of a Dominion, whereas it would hardly be reasonable to ask for a similar concession from other powers. At the same time it must be recognized that there is a definite limit to such concessions. In the long run the Imperial Government must decide, inasmuch as it is upon the Empire that the results of any decision will fall, and sherefore the central power must accept the responsibility and have the final authority, and this has been recently laid down in the correspondence of 1907! with the Govern- ment of Newfoundland regarding the American fishery rights. It may be added that the practice has of recent years been introduced of consulting the Dominions with regard to the case of general commercial treaties, in order to ascertain if there are any representations which it is desirable to make in the special interests of those Dominions. Thus in the Anglo-Greek agreement a special insertion was made of codfish in view of the interests of the Government of New- foundland, and steps have been taken to secure the presence on the Advisory Committee of the Board of Trade of repre- sentatives of the self-governing Dominions. § 3. COMMERCIAL NEGOTIATIONS WITH REGARD TO THE DoMINIONS His Majesty’s Government has from an early date been anxious to assist the self-governing Colonies to secure by treaty commercial arrangements which may appear to them 50 be advantageous in their interests, and in respect of such negotiations have always desired to have the assistance of Colonial ministers familiar with the matters dealt with. Reference may be made to the negotiation by Lord Elgin, then Governor-General, of the Reciprocity Treaty of 1854 with the United States in the interests of Canada, in which the Canadian Government were consulted in the fullest manner possible. In 1865 Her Majesty's Government expressed their readi- + Cf, Parl, Pap., Cd. 3765, p. 179.

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