oHAP. I] CONTROL OVER INTERNAL AFFAIRS 1035 
Colony in which they exist. Holding these views regarding 
the measure, I have felt it impossible to advise Her Majesty 
the Queen to signify her royal approbation of it, without 
which I am glad to observe that it will not take effect. 
In 1861 an Act to incorporate the Roman Catholic Bishop 
of Charlottetown was refused assent, but it was allowed in 
the following year (25 Vict. c. 16). 
Newfoundland has not been very happy in her domestic 
legislation. In 18582 an Act to provide for the liquidation 
of the debt incurred in connexion with streets in St. John’s 
was disallowed, and in 1859 an Act to provide for the 
payment of the owner’s assessment, to be levied under the 
provisions of an Act to incorporate the General Water Com- 
pany, was disallowed ; in 1865 an Act to continue the power 
of banishment was disallowed, this being in contravention of 
the principle that criminals should not be turned loose on 
foreign communities, as asserted later in the case of the 
Australian bushranger Gardiner.? In 1890 an Act respecting 
the municipality of St. John’s was disallowed, all these being 
cases of disallowance on grounds of the unsound policy of 
the proposals made by the Legislature. To three Acts of 
1895, cc. 7, 11, and 12, dealing with loan transactions, ware- 
house receipts, and elections, the royal assent was not signified 
as a mark of disapproval of their provisions, but no dis- 
allowance took place. But in regard to an Act (c. 28) of 1897 
which was reserved, the royal assent was withheld, as the Act 
was little more than a means of misusing the public finances 
in the interests of a political party. 
In Victoria an Act of 1860 was reserved ; it purported to 
abolish the pensions awarded to officers removed on political 
grounds, and for that reason the royal assent was withheld, 
but it was given to an amended measure passed in 1864.4 In 
1862 another reserved Bill to grant a preferential lien on 
growing crops without delivery was not assented to, as being 
too far advanced for the Imperial ideas at the time: it 
t Parl. Pap., H. C. 196, 1894, p. 7. * Ibid., p. 8. 
* Parl. Pap., C. 1202. ¢ Parl. Pap., H. C. 196, 1894, pp. 8 9 
L PP