842 PARLIAMENTS OF THE DOMINIONS [PART III 
The rule also is formally laid down that all appropriations 
must be recommended by the Governor-General; this is 
a commonplace of every Dominion Constitution since 1840, 
and only in the Bahamas and Bermuda is some degree of 
freedom still preserved to the individual member by law 
to propose money votes, a right tending to financial chaos.! 
The rule, however, does not apply to appropriation of fines 
or pecuniary penalties. 
In one respect the Constitution is somewhat more advanced 
than any other Colonial Constitution. The provision in 
the case of deadlocks as originally drafted was as follows : 
if the Assembly passed a Bill and the Senate did not 
agree, or insisted on amendments to which the Assembly 
did not agree, the Governor-General might then convene 
a joint sitting of the Houses at which the Bill, with any 
amendments made by either House and disagreed to by 
the other House, should be deliberated upon and voted for. 
Any amendments which the majority of members sitting 
together approved, and the Bill itself as amended, if so 
approved, should be taken as passed, and the Bill should 
then be presented to the Governor-General for his assent. 
The nearest parallel for this procedure, which required no 
delay, no election, no referendum, and no dissolution, is to 
be found in the deadlock provisions of the Constitutions 
of the Transvaal and the Orange River Colony.? There, 
however, the procedure was much less simple ; in the first 
place, the Bill must be carried twice by the Lower House, 
and that in successive sessions; then the Governor might 
t Cf. The Government of South Africa, i. 408. Until 1856 the individual 
member could propose money votes in New Brunswick, but with respon- 
sible government the House reluctantly curtailed the privileges of the 
individual ; see Hannay, New Brunswick, ii. 78, 178, 179. In Jamaica 
and the West Indies generally, until the surrender of the constitutions, the 
same right existed, and it also existed until responsible government in 
Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. For Canada. see 3 & 4 Viet. c. 35, 
s. 57. 
2 Letters Patent, December 6, 1906, s. 37 ; Letters Patent, June 5, 1907, 
s. 39. The effect of these provisions is incorrectly stated in The Government 
of South Africa. 1, 416.