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pleased to refer the said case for the opinion and report of
Your Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council.
A. H. PALMER,
President of the Legislative Council.
Wirriam H. Groom,
Speaker of the Legislative Assembly.
Legislative Chambers,
17th November 1885.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council reported on
the 27th March 1886 as follows —
‘Your Majesty having been pleased, by Your Order in
Council of the 8th March instant, to refer unto this Com-
mittee a humble Petition from the Legislative Council and
the Legislative Assembly of the Colony of Queensland,
concerning questions which have arisen between those two
bodies with regard to their relative rights and powers,
bogether with certain documents on the subject, and to direct
that this Committee should consider the same and report
their opinion thereupon to Your Majesty at the Board :
The Lords of the Committee, in obedience to Your Majesty's
said Order of Reference, have taken the said Petition into
consideration, and, in answer to the two questions submitted
to their Lordships by the said Petitioners, namely :—
"1. Whether the Constitution Act of 1867 confers on
the Legislative Council powers co-ordinate with those of the
Legislative Assembly in the amendment of all Bills, including
Money Bills ?
' 2. Whether the claims of the Legislative Assembly, as set
forth in their Message of 12th November 1885, are well
founded ?
‘ Their Lordships agree humbly to report to Your Majesty
as their opinion that the first of these questions should be
answered in the negative, and the second in the affirmative.’
Names of the Lords of the Committee making the said
Report : The Lord President (Lord Cranbrook), the Lord
Chancellor (Lord Herschell), the Duke of Richmond and
Gordon, Lord Aberdare, Lord Blackburn, Lord Hobhouse,
Sir Richard Couch.
No witnesses were examined, and Counsel were not heard
before the Committee.
It would of course be premature to say that the difficulties
between nominee and elective Houses have disappeared for
