HIS RESPONSIBILITY.

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“an Act to incorporate the Fredericton and St Mary's
Bridge Company.”
And whereas the said Act has been laid before the
Governor-General in Council, together with a report from the
acting Minister of Justice, recommending that the said
Act should be disallowed, His Excellency the Governor
General has thereupon this day been pleased by and with the
advice of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada to declare
his disallowance of the said Act and the same is disallowed
accordingly. Whereof the Lieutenant-Governor of the Province
 of New Brunswick, and all other persons whom it may
concern, are to take notice and govern themselves accordingly.”

RESPONSIBILITY OF THE (GOVERNOR-GENERAL.

The Governor-General is not responsible to the Dominion To the
Parliament for either his conduct or his policy: all such Colony.
responsibility must be assumed by his ministers under whose
advice he is presumed to act. It would therefore be unconstitutional
 for a colonial legislature to pass a vote of censure
upon a governor unless indeed as preliminary to an address
to the Crown to remove him.
The Governor-General is however responsible to the Tot od
Crown, which may remove him, and to the Imperial Parliament, Parliawhich
 may pass judgment on his acts. In 1866 the Governor ™*
of Victoria, Sir Charles Darling, was recalled on the ground
that he had departed from a rigid adherence to the law, in
collecting duties, in contracting a loan and in paying salaries
without the sanction of law. The course pursued by the
Colonial Secretary was fully approved by the Imperial
Government?
Though the Governor of a Colony represents the Sovereign To Law.
for many purposes, and exercises all the prerogative powers
conferred either on the office by letters patent or on himself by

1 Todd, p. 41. 2 Tb. p. 105.

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