Colonial Constitutions: an Outline of the Constitutional History and Existing Government of the British Dependencies: With Schedules of the Orders in Council, Statutes, and Parliamentary Documents Relating to Each DependencyJ. Murray, 1856 - 399 sider |
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Side iv
... Relating to Each Dependency Arthur Mills. THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR , LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS LONDON : PRINTED BY WOODFALL AND KINDER , ANGEL COURT , SKINNER STREET . ΤΟ HERMAN MERIVALE , ESQ . , UNDER SECRETARY OF.
... Relating to Each Dependency Arthur Mills. THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR , LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS LONDON : PRINTED BY WOODFALL AND KINDER , ANGEL COURT , SKINNER STREET . ΤΟ HERMAN MERIVALE , ESQ . , UNDER SECRETARY OF.
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... Court . " When the House of Commons attempted to pass laws for establishing a free right of fishery on the coasts of Virginia , New England , and Newfoundland , they were told by the Ministers " that it was not fit to make laws here for ...
... Court . " When the House of Commons attempted to pass laws for establishing a free right of fishery on the coasts of Virginia , New England , and Newfoundland , they were told by the Ministers " that it was not fit to make laws here for ...
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... Court of Chancery , and also of Courts of Error at common law . They also exercised certain branches of eccle- siastical jurisdiction , such as the grant of probates , administrations , and licences for marriage . The chief remains of ...
... Court of Chancery , and also of Courts of Error at common law . They also exercised certain branches of eccle- siastical jurisdiction , such as the grant of probates , administrations , and licences for marriage . The chief remains of ...
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... Court of Chancery , a Superior Common Law Court , uniting the jurisdiction of the Queen's Bench and Common Pleas in England ; a Court of Ordinary ; a Court of Admiralty ; a Court for the administration of criminal justice , frequently ...
... Court of Chancery , a Superior Common Law Court , uniting the jurisdiction of the Queen's Bench and Common Pleas in England ; a Court of Ordinary ; a Court of Admiralty ; a Court for the administration of criminal justice , frequently ...
Side 48
... Courts . This Com- mittee , of which four form a quorum , is empowered to hear and report to her Majesty on all appeals brought from the Colonies , and from the Courts at the East- Indian presidencies in the form prescribed . The ...
... Courts . This Com- mittee , of which four form a quorum , is empowered to hear and report to her Majesty on all appeals brought from the Colonies , and from the Courts at the East- Indian presidencies in the form prescribed . The ...
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Act passed Acts of Parliament administration amend annum appointed Approving commission Approving instructions Approving report April August August 11 Australian Colonies Authorising Britain British Colonies British Guiana Canada Cape Ceylon Charter civil clergy reserves coast colo Commissioners Confirming an Act constitution convicts Correspondence COUNCIL RELATING Court Crown lands dated December Despatches Dieman's Land duties Earl East India Company elected emigration empowered England established Executive Council February free warehousing port Government granted Guernsey House of Assembly Imperial Parliament Indies instructions to Governor island Jamaica January July July 11 June June 25 justice laws Legislative Council Legislature Lieutenant-Governor Lord Majesty Majesty's March Mauritius ment November October officers Orders in Council Papers relating Parliamentary Reports possessions Province provisions regulating respecting Return revenues Royal Assent salary Secretary September Settlement Sierra Leone South Australia South Wales statute territories tion Trinidad Van Dieman's Land Vict Vide Western Australia Zealand
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Side xlix - Who are you, that should fret and rage and bite the chains of nature? Nothing worse happens to you than does to all nations who have extensive empire; and it happens in all the forms into which empire can be thrown. In large bodies, the circulation of power must be less vigorous at the extremities.
Side xlix - ... is derived from a prudent relaxation in all his borders. Spain, in her provinces, is, perhaps, not so well obeyed as you are in yours. She complies, too; she submits; she watches times. This is the immutable condition, the eternal law of extensive and detached empire.
Side 125 - An Act for continuing in the East India Company, for a further Term, the possession of the British Territories
Side xxxix - On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they raised their flag against a power, to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Side xlix - Three thousand miles of ocean lie between you and them. No contrivance can prevent the effect of this distance in weakening government. . Seas roll, and months pass, between the order and the execution ; and the want of a speedy explanation of a single point is enough to defeat a whole system. You have, indeed, winged ministers of vengeance, who carry your bolts in their pounces to the remotest verge of the sea.
Side 29 - ... be called upon to retire from the public service as often as any sufficient motives of public policy may suggest the expediency of that measure, but that a change in the person of the governor will be considered as a sufficient reason for any alterations which his successor may deem it expedient to make in the list of public functionaries, subject, of course, to the future confirmation of the sovereign.
Side 129 - An Act for effecting an arrangement with the East India " Company, and for the better government of his Majesty's Indian territories, " till the thirtieth day of April one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four...
Side 360 - Provisions of an Act to provide for the Administration of Justice in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, and for the more effectual Government thereof, and for other purposes relating thereto...
Side lv - That, in order to preserve, between the different branches of the Provincial Parliament, that harmony which is essential to the peace, welfare and good government of the Province, the chief advisers of the Representative of the Sovereign, constituting a Provincial Administration under him, ought to be men possessed of the confidence of the representatives of the people...
Side 28 - England, is not his own power, but the power of the Crown, of which he is for the time the organ. It is obvious that the executive councillor {_/ of a colony is in a situation totally different.