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

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CHAP. vi] TRADE RELATIONS AND CURRENCY 1181 argued all over again the question as regards the question of right to have treaties with differential duties in the case of foreign countries as well, but in 1872 a conference at Sydney representing all the Colonies and New Zealand asked for powers as to Australasian inter-colonial duties only, and these were conceded by the Imperial Act of 1873! which, however, contained still the prohibition of differential duties in case of other British territories and foreign states and duties contrary to treaties. The clauses of the Imperial Acts as to differential duties were not finally removed until the passing of the Act of 1895.2 The passing of that Act was the outcome of the Ottawa Conference of 1894, to which allusion will be made elsewhere. The conference asserted the principle of pre- ference among the different parts of the Empire, and de- manded the abrogation of the treaties of 1862 with Belgium and of 1865 with the Zollverein, which hampered the granting by the Colonies of a preference to the Mother Country. It was not deemed expedient at that time by the Government of the day to accede to that request, but they yielded to the further request that all legal fetters on inter-colonial prefer- ance should be removed, and they accordingly repealed by the Act of 1895 the proviso to the Act of 18733 which lays down that “no new duty shall be imposed upon and no existing duty shall be remitted as to the importation into any of the Austra- lian Colonies of any article, the produce or manufacture of any particular country, which shall not be equally imposed upon or remitted as to the importation into such Colony of the like article the produce or manufacture of any other country ’. It is somewhat curious that the Imperial Government should have treated Canada so differently in this regard in the early days before federation : it is clear from the cases which were cited by the New Zealand Government ¢ in the L336 & 37 Vict., ¢. 22; Hansard, cexv. 1998-2011; cexvi. 153-8; cf. Holland, Imperium eo Libertas, pp. 288 seq. * 58 & 59 Vict. c. 3; Hansard, xxxi. 646, 647, 899, 852, 1533, 1534. * Also 13 & 14 Vict. ¢. 59, a. 27. * Parl. Pap., C."703, pp. 8 seq. Cf. House of Commons Papers, 1846, xxvii. 27-55; 1856, xliv. 169-71; cf. 1864, x1. 697; Adderley, Colonial Policy, p. 58. 12793

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