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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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

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

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1160 ADMINISTRATION AND LEGISLATION [PART V of the Act arrived he would probably feel bound to assent to it, but he considered it his duty no less to the Colony than to the Mother Country to express his regret ‘ that the ex- perience of England, which has fully proved the injurious effect of the protective system and the advantage of low duties upon manufactures both as regards trade and revenue, should be lost sight of, and that such an Act as the present should have passed. I much fear the effect of the law will be that the greater part of the new duty will be paid to the Canadian producer by the Colonial consumer, whose interests, as it seems to me, have not been sufficiently con- sidered on this occasion.’ In a later dispatch of November 5, 1859, the Secretary of State forwarded a letter from the Privy Council for Trade in which it was said :— They think, however, that in leaving the Act to its opera- tion, Her Majesty’s Government should express their regret that the fiscal requirements of Canada should have compelled it to resort to a measure so objectionable in principle, and their apprehension of the injurious effect which it is calculated to produce upon the industrial progress of the province. On November 11, 1859, the Governor sent back a reply from the Canadian Government prepared by Mr. (afterwards Sir) A. Galt, in which the following vindication was given of the principles which should regulate the relations in these matters of the Home and the Colonial Governments :— The Minister of Finance has the honour respectfully to submit certain remarks and statements upon the Dispatch of His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, dated August 13, and upon the Memorial of the Chamber of Commerce of Sheffield. dated August 1, transmitted therewith. Parl. Pap., H. C. 400, 1864, pp. 11, 12. It may be noted that earlier attempts had been made to forbid the granting of bounties; the Lieute- nant-Governor of New Brunswick was instructed in 1849 to veto any such measures, as the result of the grant of a bounty for the cultivation of hemp; Earl Grey, Colonial Policy, i. 279. A circular dispatch of June 24, 1843, forbade differential duties (see Hannay, New Brunswick, ii. 122) ; and differential duties were included asa ground of reservation in the royal instructions to all Governors, and the injunction of reservation is repeated in Lord Ripon’s dispatch of 1895, which is still binding on all Dominions : see Parl, Pap., C. 7824, p. 9; below, vn. 1181. n. 4.

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