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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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 1183 The Canadian preference first accorded in 1897, when its appearance was celebrated by one of Mr. Rudyard Kipling’s best poems, was increased at the next revision of the tariff, and stands still very high in favour of Great Britain! It is conceded entirely as a free gift in recompense for the part played by the Imperial power in the Empire, and it is given without conditions, though alike in 1902 and 1907 at the Colonial Conferences Canada offered further preference in return for a preference in British markets. It has recently been recognized by the Royal Commission, which has sug- gested the basis for a reciprocity arrangement between Canada and the West Indies, that any advantage extended to these Colonies by Canada shall be accorded gratis to the Mother Country. This, it will be seen, is in accordance with the principles laid down in regard to these negotiations as regards foreign Powers by Lord Ripon in 1894, but it was not the principle adopted in the Act of 1873, which allowed the Colonies of Australia to shut out the Mother Country from any inter-colonial preference. § 2. CURRENCY The intervention of the Crown in currency matters can be disposed of briefly. Coinage is a royal prerogative, and currency figures prominently among the earlier cases of disallowance. In 1843 a New Brunswick Act was disallowed because the rates of value of the coins were not specified correctly? In 1845 a refusal was sent to a proposal by the Legislature of Prince Edward Island that it should be allowed to issue £10,000 in Treasury notes, redeemable in fifteen years, and a contemporaneous request to be allowed to suspend the repayment of Treasury notes was also refused.? In 1851 a Canadian Act of 1850 (c. 8) in respect of currency, which the Governor-General had assented to, was disallowed on the ground that it ought to have been reserved under the royal instructions, that it purported to confer upon the ' Cf. Ewart, op. cit. pp. 255-73 ; Willison, op. cit. ii. 279-312; Sir W. Laurier in Canadian House of Commons, March 7, 1911, * Parl. Pap., H. C. 529, 1864, p. 34. * Ibid., p. 40. a2

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