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Responsible Government in the Dominions (Classic Reprint) Arthur Berriedale Keith No preview available - 2015 |
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Page 138 - Property. 2. The Regulation of Trade and Commerce. 3. The Raising of Money by any Mode or System of Taxation 4.
Page 7 - Every purpose of popular control might be combined with every advantage of vesting the immediate choice of advisers in the Crown, were the Colonial Governor to be instructed to secure the co-operation of the Assembly in his policy, by intrusting its administration to such men as could command a majority...
Page 138 - British or Foreign country or between Two Provinces. 14. Currency and Coinage. 15. Banking, Incorporation of Banks, and the Issue of Paper Money. 16. Savings Banks. 17. Weights and Measures. 18. Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes. 19. Interest. 20. Legal Tender. 21. Bankruptcy and Insolvency. 22. Patents of Invention and Discovery. 23.
Page 87 - Every colonial legislature shall have, and be deemed at all times to have had, full power within its jurisdiction to establish courts of judicature, and to abolish and reconstitute the same, and to alter the constitution thereof, and to make provision for the administration of justice therein...
Page 136 - Act of the constitution of the province except as regards the office of lieutenant governor; 2. Direct taxation within the province in order to the raising of a revenue for provincial purposes; 3. The borrowing of money on the sole credit of the province; 4. The establishment and tenure of provincial offices and the appointment and payment of provincial officers; 5. The management and sale of the public lands belonging to the province and of the timber and wood thereon; 6. The establishment, maintenance...
Page 136 - Province. 9. Shop, Saloon, Tavern, Auctioneer, and other Licences in order to the raising of a Revenue for Provincial, Local, or Municipal Purposes. 10. Local Works and Undertakings other than such as are of the following Classes : (a) Lines of Steam or other Ships, Railways, Canals, Telegraphs, and other Works and...
Page 138 - Quarantine and the Establishment and Maintenance of Marine Hospitals. 12 Sea Coast and Inland Fisheries. 13 Ferries between a Province and any British or Foreign Country or between Two Provinces. 14 Currency and Coinage 15 Banking, Incorporation of Banks, and the Issue of Paper Money. 16 Savings Banks.
Page 87 - every representative legislature shall in respect to the Colony under its jurisdiction have, and be deemed at all times to have had, full power to make laws respecting the constitution, powers and procedure of such legislature, provided that such laws shall have been passed in such manner and form as may from time to time be required by any Act of Parliament, Letters Patent, Orders in Council or Colonial Law for the time being in force in the said Colony.
Page 179 - Any Ordinance whereby persons not of European birth or descent may be subjected or made liable to any disabilities or restrictions to which persons of European birth or descent are not also subjected or made liable.
Page 130 - Durban, Victoria, Alexandra, and Alfred; three from within the counties of Pietermaritzburg and Umvoti ; three from within the counties of Weenen and Klip River...