660 INDEX

members, 492, 493 ; payment, 504 3
aslectoral matters, 505, 1620; Upper
House, 597; referendum on liquor
traffic, 932; Imperial control of
legislation before Union, 1032-5 i
entry intofederation, 846 ; representation
 in Senate, 652; in House of
Commons, 653; executive authority,
681; disallowance of Acts, 735
n. 3; education, 690, 691; Dominion
 subsidy, 757, 758; public
ands, 1047 ; judiciary, 752, 1337,
1338 ; appeals to Supreme Court,
750; to Privy Council (Order in
Council, October 13, 1910), 752,
1362, 1364 ; prerogative of mercy,
1400 n.1; established church, 1429
n. 1.
Principles of Imperial control over
Dominion administration and legislation,
 Part V, chap. i, and see Table
of Contents.
Prior, Col., Premier of British Columbia,
 dismissed by Lieutenant-Governor
 in 1903, 244, 245,
Private entrée, refused to Consuls
{special courtesy was shown by
Duke of Connaught; Standard of
Empire, November 17, 1911; but
entrée was not conceded), 1132
n 1.
Privileges of Parliament, Part VII,
chap. v, and see Table of Contents;
restricted powers taken in Australia,
1618 n.4; of Canadian Legislatures,
696, 697.
Privy Council, views of Lord President
as to disallowance of Canadian Bills.
728, -
Privy Council, Judicial Committee,
appeals to, Part VI, chap. iii, and
see Table of Contents; interpretation
 of Commonwealth Constitution,
 832-5.
Privy Council, in Canada, 302 ; in the
South African draft constitution of
18717, 946. .
Prize, jurisdiction in, may be conferred
on Colonial Courts (it is normally so
conferred on the Supreme Court in
the Admiralty jurisdiction under
the Colonial Courts of Admiraliy Act,
1890), 1349.
Probate of Wills, grant of, by Governor,
157, 1613.
Probates, recognition of colonial, 1466.
Procedure of Parliament, Part III,
chap. v, and see Table of Contents.
Prohibited degrees of marriage, relaxation
 of, in Dominions, 1245-7.
Property as basis of franchise. 475.

Proportional representation, proposed
for the Union, 960, 963, 1002;
adopted in Tasmania, 508.
Propsting, Hon. W. B., Premier of
Tasmania (1903-4), 200-4.
Prorogation of Parliament, power of
Governor, 156,170 n. 1 ; in Canada,
1562; in Commonwealth, 1570,
1571; in the Union, 1579 ; in New
Zealand, 1588, 1589; in Australian
states, 1597; in Newfoundland,
1605; and those in Canadian prorinces
 for indefinite period (Ontario
Act, 1908, c. 5, 5. 6; British Columbia
Bev. Stat., 1897, c. 47,5. 23 ; Alberta
Act, 1909, c. 2,5. 6; Prince Edward
{sland Act, 1911, c. 1), 471; in
Victoria (Act No. 1075, s. 27) and
Tasmania (Act 48 Vict. No. 54,
ss. 10, 11), 471; refusal of Lieubenant-Governor
 to grant in New
South Wales, 16186,
Protection in Canada, 1159-64,
Protector, South Australian war vessel,
1271.
Protestant clergy, in Act of 1791 (31
Geo. III c. 31), 1448.
Provinces, in Canada (not colonies or
dependencies in the ordinary sense
of these words as used in ‘a will,
in re Maryon- Wilson's estate, Times,
November 9, 1911), Part IV,
chap. i; in Union, chap. iii.
Provinces, establishment of, by New
Zealand Parliament, 367; in New
Zealand, 975-7.
Provincial Agents-General (M. Pelletier
 appointed for Quebec in 1911),
343.
Provincial Bills, assent to, in the
Union, 971, 972, 974, 975.
Provincial Councils, in New Zealand,
976, 977 ; in the Union, 969-72.
Public health, provincial control of,
720; lands, see Lands; seal, see
Seal; service, see Civil Service;
works, attempt to control expendibure
 on, by Public WorksCommittee
in New South Wales (rejected
by Western Australia in 1912; see
Debates, 1911, pp. 705 seq.), 635
n. 5.
Publication of correspondence, 101.
Publication of treaties before ratification,
 1129, 1130.
Pugsley, Hon. W., Minister of Works
in Canada, abolishes patronage
system as regards contracts, 348;
interferes in provincial politics, 655.
Pulp wood, export of from Quebec and
Ontario. 748 n. 1.