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

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1186 ADMINISTRATION AND LEGISLATION [PART V in the profits, and accordingly an arrangement was made by which they were to have a coinage system of their own, which should be special to Australia, and on which they should receive the profits, though the coinage is manufactured by the Imperial mint in London. This coinage has no validity outside the Commonwealth unless validity is given to it by local Act in any Colony, or by proclamation under the Coinage Act, 1870, as amended in 1891. Under the latter Act not only has the Crown a paramount power as to coinage throughout the Empire which has never yet been abridged by any Act, but the power is one which has been and still is regularly used in respect of the self-governing Dominions when required. Under the system in force there are subordinate mints at Melbourne since 1872, Sydney since 1855, Perth since 1898, and at Ottawa since 1907, the staffs of which are under the control of the Imperial Government, and work in accordance with the rules laid down by that Government, though the cost of the mints is provided by the Colonial Governments concerned, who receive the profits of the coinages. The gold coins struck at those mints are valid tender wherever a British gold coin is valid tender? On the other hand, there is local legislation in Canada regarding local coinages, the acceptance of British gold current in the United Kingdom (s. 9), the rates and values of dollars and cents, and the acceptance of foreign coins such as the American coins. Again, the new silver coinage of the Commonwealth was provided for by a Commonwealth Act, No. 6 of 1909, and the same Act also deals with gold ! See for the Orders in Council, Stat. R. and O. Rev., viii. 627-41 ; Stat. R. and O., 1894, p. 33; 1896, p. 13; 1900, p. 21; Quick and Garran, Constitution of Commonwealth, p. 574; Canada, Rev. Stat., 1908, c. 26; Order in Council, November 2, 1907. The distinctive silver coinage of. Canada is now normally struck at the Ottawa branch (9 & 10 Edw. VII. c. 14, 8. 5), but the Australian coinage is still struck in England (Cd. 5273, p. 161). The Treasury has undertaken to accept current British silver at the Australian mints to an amount not exceeding £100,000 a year, while it continues to redeem worn coins, and also under an Order in Council of March 18, 1908, to redeem worn gold coins on the principles of the Coinage Act, 1891.

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