The Parliamentary Debates

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Reuter's Telegram Company, 1893 - Great Britain
 

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Page 1135 - Any Colonial Law which is or shall be in any respect repugnant to the Provisions of any Act of Parliament extending to the Colony to which such Law may relate, or repugnant to any Order or Regulation made under Authority of such Act of Parliament, or having in the Colony the Force and Effect of such Act, shall be read subject to such Act, Order or Regulation, and shall, to the Extent of such Repugnancy, but not otherwise, be and remain absolutely void and inoperative.
Page 797 - Britain; and that the King's majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons of Great Britain, in parliament assembled, had, hath, and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the crown of Great Britain, in all cases whatsoever.
Page 85 - House for the purpose of discussing a definite matter of urgent public importance and state the matter.
Page 115 - Title, the vessel on board of which such seaman shall be found shall, for every such seaman, be liable to a penalty of not more than two hundred dollars.
Page 797 - America have been, are, and of right ought to be, subordinate unto, and dependent upon the imperial crown and parliament of Great Britain; and that the King's majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporaL and commons of Great Britain, in parliament assembled, had, hath, and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and...
Page 797 - Ireland to be bound only by laws enacted by his Majesty and the parliament of that kingdom, in all cases whatever...
Page 483 - I understand the supremacy of the Imperial Parliament to be this — that they can interfere in the event of the powers which are conferred by this Bill being abused under certain circumstances. But the Nationalists in accepting this Bill go, as I think, under an...
Page 733 - Acts, 1891 and 1892, and to consider whether it is desirable to adopt any other than the existing means of settling differences arising between the companies and the public with respect to the rates and conditions of charge for the conveyance of goods, and to report what means they recommend.
Page 1205 - If Mr. Speaker, or the Chairman of a committee of the whole House, shall be of opinion that a motion for the adjournment of a debate, or of the House, during any debate, or that the Chairman do report progress, or do leave the chair, is an abuse of the rules of the House, he may forthwith put the question thereupon from the chair, or he may decline to propose the question thereupon to the House.
Page 431 - Act, 1876, as amended and extended by the Poor Law Act, 1879, relating to the parishes of . . . Broadway . . . 1884. 47 and 48 Viet. cap. 48. P. An Act to confirm certain orders of the Local Government Board, under the provisions of the Divided Parishes and Poor Law Amendment Act, 1876...

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