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INDEX

doubts as to economy under Union,
991.
Metcalfe, Sir C. T. (later Lord),
Governor-General of Canada, 17,
21.
Metriesystem of weights and measures,
1474, 1539, 1540.
Mexico, treaty of November 27,
1888, with (adhered to by all
Australian states save New South
Wales, Natal, and Newfoundland,
and binding on Transvaal and
Orange Free State provinces), 1109,
1558 n.2; power to retire from, con.
ceded in 1911, 1623.
Military defence, Part V, chap. x, § 1,
and see Table of Contents.
Mills, Hon. D., Minister of Justice
in Canada, views as to disallowance
of Provincial Acts, 741, 742.
Milner, Lord, proposed censure on,
by House of Commons (Hansard,
ser. 4, cxxiv, 464 seq., 1410 seq.),
178 n. 1.
Mineral rights in British Columbia
railway lands not vested in Dominion
 Government, 683.
Minister, called upon to resign office,
Part IT, chap. vii, and see Table of
Contents, 1042; without seat in
Parliament, 241, 305, 306 : can
speak in either House, 964 n. 3.
Ministers of Justice, Canada, reports
of, 734 n. 1.
Ministerial responsibility, not directly
secured by law, 304, 305.
Ministry, in the Union, 955.
Minto, Earl of, Governor-General of
Canada (1898-1904), 149.
Wodus wvivendi, of Transvaal with
Mozambique, 1901, 945. 1101 : of
1909, 1101.
Molteno, Hon. Sir J., K.C.M.G., advocates
 responsible government at
the Cape, 46, 47; Prime Minister
(1872-8), 290; opposes Lord Carnarvon’s
 federation scheme, 941-3 ;
dispute with Sir B. Frere, 1258-61.
Molteno, P. A., M.P., criticism of Sir B.
Frere, 1260 ; on honours, 1300 n.1.
Monastic institutions, in Canada,
1445 n.3.
Money Bills, powers of nominee
Houses as to, 555-68.
Monk, Viscount, efforts in favour
of federation, 1004 ; first Governor-General
 of Canada (1867-8), 647.
Monk, Hon. F. D., in 1911 Minister
of Public Works in Canadian Government,
 1619; views on Canadian
aaval policy, 1297. 1629 n. 1.

Monroe doctrine, application of, to
Canada, 1267.
Montenegro, treaty of 1882 with, 1109.
Montserrat, alteration of constitution
of bicameral legislature of, in 1862
(Act No. 286, one chamber with
elective majority) and 1866 (No. 350,
nominee ; see also Act No. 18 of
1868; 3 of 1901; 2 of 1902; 4 of
1909), 10, 367; no power of Crown
to legislate for, 1444 n. 1.
Moor, Rt. Hon. Sir F., K.C.M.G.,
Premier of Natal, 321; becomes
a senator in the Union, 958 n. 2.
Moore, Hon. Sir N. J, K.C.M.G.,
Premier of Western Australia (1906
-10), Agent-General (1910— }, 308
325,
Moray Firth, Act against trawling in
(cf. 4 Adam, 608; 5Adam,121),378.
Morgan case, action of Mr. Justice
Higinbotham in regard to (Morris,
Memoir, pp. 199, 200), 1405.
organ, Hon. Sir A., Premier of
Queensland (1903-6), now President
of Legislative Council and Lieutenant-Governor),
 325,
Yorocco, treaty of December 9, 1856,
with, applies to all Dominions,
1558 n. 2 ; effect in Canada of crisis
of 1811 regarding, 1629.
Morris, Rt. Hon. Sir E., Premier of
Newfoundland (1909- ), 209-11,
309, 323; P.C. 1302 n. 3; obtains
increase in Legislative Council,
598 ; represents Newfoundland at
the Imperial Conference of 1911,
1501 1n.2; views on Imperial
Parliament of Defence, 1505; on
Standing Committee of Imperial
Conference, 1510; on Declaration
of London, 1516 ; on Imperial Court
of Appeal, 1529.
dost favoured nation treaties, 1153,
1154,1558 n. 2 ; as regards Customs
Union in South Africa, 1622, 1623.
Mount Rennie murder case, 1404 n. 4.
dountstephen, Lord, peerage of. 1304
n. 1.
Mowat, Sir 0., G.C.M.G., Premier of
Ontario, 323; views on executive
power, 663; his services in the
maintenance of the federal constitution,
 776 ; honour for, 1301 n. 1.
Mozambique, arrangements of Transvaal
 with, 945, 1101, 1623.
Municipal institutions, provincial control
 of, 720.
Murder, extraterritorial operation of
law as to, 137, 282, 398.
Murray, Sir H.. K.C.B.. Governor