Sessional Papers, Volume 55H.M. Stationery Office, 1900 - Great Britain |
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... Colony under your Government , required for Section twenty - six Commonwealth Bill . Repeat this telegram to Governors ... Colonial Secretary , Representative of Western Australia in London to watch passage of Commonwealth Bill through ...
... Colony under your Government , required for Section twenty - six Commonwealth Bill . Repeat this telegram to Governors ... Colonial Secretary , Representative of Western Australia in London to watch passage of Commonwealth Bill through ...
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... COLONIAL OFFICE , DOWNING STREET , LONDON , S.W. Thursday , 5th April , 1900 . Present : The Right Honourable JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN , M.P. , the Secretary of State for the Colonies , presiding . The Right Honourable the EARL OF SELBORNE ...
... COLONIAL OFFICE , DOWNING STREET , LONDON , S.W. Thursday , 5th April , 1900 . Present : The Right Honourable JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN , M.P. , the Secretary of State for the Colonies , presiding . The Right Honourable the EARL OF SELBORNE ...
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... COLONIAL OFFICE to MR . EDMUND BARTON . [ Answered by Nos . 29 and 50. ] Downing Street , April 10 , 1900 . SIR , I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to inform you that he has received a letter from Western Australia , suggesting ...
... COLONIAL OFFICE to MR . EDMUND BARTON . [ Answered by Nos . 29 and 50. ] Downing Street , April 10 , 1900 . SIR , I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to inform you that he has received a letter from Western Australia , suggesting ...
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... COLONIAL OFFICE to AGENT - GENERAL FOR NEW ZEALAND . Downing Street , April 20 , 1900 . SIR , I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 11th instant , on the subject of the amendments ...
... COLONIAL OFFICE to AGENT - GENERAL FOR NEW ZEALAND . Downing Street , April 20 , 1900 . SIR , I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 11th instant , on the subject of the amendments ...
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... Secretary . No. 62 . COLONIAL OFFICE to THE AGENT - GENERAL FOR NEW ZEALAND . SIR , Downing Street , April 28 , 1900 . WITH reference to the letter from this Department of the 18th instant , * en- closing copy of a telegram † which had ...
... Secretary . No. 62 . COLONIAL OFFICE to THE AGENT - GENERAL FOR NEW ZEALAND . SIR , Downing Street , April 28 , 1900 . WITH reference to the letter from this Department of the 18th instant , * en- closing copy of a telegram † which had ...
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Page 7 - Representatives, in the same or the next session, again passes the proposed law with or without any amendments which have been made, suggested, or agreed to by the Senate, and the Senate rejects or fails to pass it, or passes it with amendments to which the House of Representatives will not agree, the GovernorGeneral may dissolve the Senate and the House of Representatives simultaneously.
Page 11 - But notwithstanding anything in this Constitution, goods imported before the imposition of uniform duties of customs into any State, or into any Colony which, whilst the goods remain therein, becomes a State, shall, on thence passing into another State within two years after the imposition of such duties, be liable to any duty chargeable on the importation of such goods into the Commonwealth, less any duty paid in respect of the goods on their importation.
Page 20 - TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY MAY IT PLEASE YOUR MAJESTY...
Page 5 - The people of any race, other than the aboriginal race in any State, for whom it is deemed necessary to make special laws.
Page 13 - British possession" shall mean any part of Her Majesty's dominions exclusive of the United Kingdom, and where parts of such dominions are under both a central and a local legislature, all parts under the central legislature shall, for the purposes of this definition, be deemed to be one British possession...
Page 5 - The powers, privileges, and immunities of the Senate and of the House of Representatives, and of the members and the committees of each House, shall be such as are declared by the Parliament, and until declared shall be those of the Commons House of Parliament of the United Kingdom, and of its members and committees, at the establishment of the Commonwealth.
Page 6 - But a proposed law shall not be taken to appropriate revenue or moneys, or to impose taxation, by reason only of its containing provisions for the imposition or appropriation of fines or other pecuniary penalties, or for the demand or payment or appropriation of fees for licences, or fees for services under the proposed law.
Page 29 - If at any time during the five years the duty on any goods under this section is higher than the duty imposed by the Commonwealth on the importation of the like goods, then such higher duty shall be collected on the goods when imported into Western Australia from beyond the limits of the Commonwealth.
Page 63 - Whereas the people of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, and Tasmania, humbly relying on the blessing of Almighty God, have agreed to unite in one indissoluble Federal Commonwealth under the Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and under the Constitution hereby established...