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

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Collection:: Economics Books

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

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1168 ADMINISTRATION AND LEGISLATION [PART YV well upon them, because as dealing with a limited list of raw materials and produce not imported to those Colonies from Europe, they are hardly, if at all, applicable to the present case, and I shall refer only to the Act passed by the Dominion of Canada in 1867 (31 Vict. ¢. 7), which is the enactment principally relied upon as a precedent. Schedule D of this Act exempts from duty certain specified raw materials and produce of the British North American Provinces, and the third section enacts that ‘any other articles than those mentioned in Schedule D, being of the growth and produce of the British North American Provinces, may be specially exempted from Customs duties by order of the Governor in Council". This, which was one of the first Acts of the Legislature of the newly-constituted Dominion in its opening session, was passed in the expectation that, at no distant date, the other Possessions of Her Majesty in North America would become part of the Dominion, and the assent of Her Majesty’s Government to a measure passed in circumstances so peculiar and exceptional cannot form a precedent of universal and necessary application ; although I am not prepared to deny that the Australasian Governments are justified in citing it as an example of the admission of the principle of differen- tial duties. With reference to the second question, as to the existence of any Treaty, the obligations of which might be inconsistent with compliance by Her Majesty with the present proposal, the Board of Trade have informed me that this point could only be raised in connexion with the terms of the Treaty between this country and the Zollverein of 1865, extended through the operation of the ‘ most-favoured-nation’ Article to all other countries possessing rights conferred by that stipulation. The Seventh Article of that Treaty, which extends the provisions of previous Articles to the Colonies and Foreign Possessions of Her Majesty, contains the following pro- vision :— “In the Colonies and Possessions the produce of the states of the Zollverein shall not be subject to any higher or other import duties than the produce of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or of anv other country, of the like kind.’ I am advised that this Seventh Article may be held not to preclude Her Majesty from ‘ permitting the Legislature of a British Possession to impose on articles being the produce

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