Lexikon der Handelsgeographie

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 2)

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Identifikator:: 834011689

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-85682

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Jung, Karl Emil http://d-nb.info/gnd/117659711

Title:: Lexikon der Handelsgeographie

Place of publication:: Leipzig

Publisher:: Verl. des Bibliogr. Inst.

Year of publication:: 1882

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (IV, 563 S)

Collection:: Economics Books

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CHAP. viii] RELATIONS OF THE HOUSES 593 insolvency, the conviction for an infamous crime, or on & member absenting himself after a prescribed period. On condition that these principles were adopted the Crown would be prepared toaccede to the suggestion for a permanent tenure. He did not think such a tenure should be laid down by the authority of Parliament, as it was clearly a matter within the royal prerogative, and he conveyed Her Majesty’s approval of the proposed alteration in the tenure of office. It is clear from the resolution passed by the Legislative Council on January 13, 1846, that they understood the concession to be life tenure and also, as in New Brunswick, 2 normal number of twenty-one members, of whom seven only could be officers holding their posts at pleasure and conditionally on the vacating of seats in the instances alluded +0 in Lord Stanley’s dispatch. Accordingly, in the new commission to Earl Cathcart ag Governor of Nova Scotia, provision was made for increasing the number of members from fifteen to twenty-one; the royal instructions were not altered to restrict the number of councillors holding office, but the Lieutenant-Governor was required to observe the limitation to Seven, and in addition the Lieutenant- Governor was to consider it his duty to suspend members of that Council on the occurrence of any of the disqualifica.- tions mentioned in the dispatch. The conditions laid down appear more clearly in the case of New Brunswick, in which the matter was carried out primarily by dispatches only and without any alteration in the royal commission and instructions, In that case the number of members was increased to twenty-one merely by the issue of fresh warrants, and the restriction of the dumber of members holding office to seven was laid down by the dispatch, while the Lieutenant-Governor was told that if he suspended persons in accordance with the prin- ciples enunciated the Suspensions would be confirmed by the Crown. Indeed, in a further dispatch of August 23, 1844, the Secretary of State for the Colonies declined to make a formal rule that members should hold during life. In none of the royal commissions or instructions issued 1270.2

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