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is valid throughout, not being affected by the demise 
of the Crown. The rule is, of course, rigidly adhered 
to in the case of military corps in the Dominions ; for them 
to adopt the title ‘ Royal’ without consent would be most 
improper—that it would be legal under an Act is of course 
obvious, and even if made by executive action it cannot be 
said that there is any means of preventing it in law—and in 
addition the title would lose all its value as a mark of dis- 
tinction unless it were derived from the throne and through 
the personal approval of the Crown. So, too, no institution 
should, without the royal sanction, assume any name signi- 
fying the connexion with the reigning monarch, such as 
King George Hospital. 
There also may be mentioned the case of reduction of the 
salary of the Governor; in the Australian States all such 
Acts still require reservation under the Act of 1907? as under 
the Act of 1842.2 but this is not normally the case in law. 
The Canadian Parliament in 18682 in a fit of economy, 
reduced the salary of the Governor-General, which was fixed 
at £10,000, with power to the Parliament to alter, to £6,500 
a year, a remarkable figure at that time, when the great 
Australian colonies gave salaries of £10,000 a year. But the 
Act was reserved and never assented to, the Secretary of 
State pointing out that the reduction would reduce the 
position of the Governor-General to that of a third-class 
governorship. The various Acts which since federation have 
been passed to reduce the salaries of the Governors of the 
states have been reserved and assented to in due course, for 
the Imperial Government will not refuse to accept a decision 
to reduce the salary if it is deliberately desired by a Dominion 
or state. The result of a diminished salary is diminished 
sntertaining on the one hand. and a diminished status of the 
+ 7 Edw. VIL c. 7. 
* 5 & 6 Vict. c. 76, 8. 31; 13 & 14 Vict. c. 59, sg, 18. 
* Canada Sess. Pap., 1869, No, 73. The Canadian Parliament in 1869 
fixed the salary at £10,000 of its own authority, and the Act (32 & 33 Vict. 
c. 74) was assented to after reservation on August 7, 1869. See Rev, Stat, 
1906, c. 3, s. 4. 
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