The Government of Victoria (Australia)

Macmillan and Company, 1891 - 403 pages

INTRODUCTORY	1

Fixing of sale price of lands in Port Phillip at 1 an acre	10

Formula for developement of colonial selfgovernment in	11

Members of the Executive	17

CHAPTER III	23

CHAPTER IV	27

The theory applied to colonial lands	33

Sir Richard Bourkes Proclamation	39

CHAPTER XXIV	227

Powers by colonial statute	233

THE PARLIAMENT	236

The poll	242

Official character	243

Special duties of the legislature	249

Right of disallowance by the Crown	252

CHAPTER XXIX	259

CHAPTER VI	48

Appointment of The Colonial Land and Emigration Com	49

The Councillors and the Council	54

Lighting streets and drains	59

The Police Fund	60

Revenue and Expenditure	65

THE NEW CONSTITUTION 1842	77

The elections for Port Phillip and Melbourne	82

Powers	88

Three aspects of the question Sale Squatting Quit Rents	94

Approved by the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners	100

Its demands once more refused by the Home Government	106

The former condemned by the Report of 1844	108

Carried out by Regulations	115

The Resolutions of Grievances of 1850	121

CHAPTER XIII	125

Memorial from Port Phillip	131

Indifference of England to Colonial questions in 1842	136

Buildings	137

Exports	138

Importance of the Constitution of 1842	144

CHAPTER XVI	150

The Victorian Electoral Act	152

Analysis of accompanying Instructions	158

Transfer of Customs to the Colonial authorities	164

LOCAL GOVERNMENT	168

CHAPTER XIX	174

Qualified permission to use the other Land Revenue	179

Answer of the Duke of Newcastle	185

Analysis of Sir John Pakingtons despatch	191

The electoral districts	193

Committee	197

Despatch of Lord John Russell with Constitution statute	199

CHAPTER XXII	206

Tradition of a right to sit in Parliament ex officio	211

Minute of Sir Charles Hotham respecting Responsible Government	212

Loans	218

Squatting	221

Unincorporated legislators	265

His duties	267

Dangers of a purely official council	268

Limitations thereon	270

The power of the Executive Council in disposing of patronage	274

History of a Government financial year	280

Special precautions on Customs Bills	281

Limits of selection	287

The Land Act 1869	289

Other duties of Commissioner of Crown Lands and Survey	296

Committee of Classifiers	299

CHAPTER XXXII	305

Dismissal and reduction	311

Legal responsibility of officials	314

The Council of Judges	320

Registrar or Marshal	323

75	327

The consolidating Act of 1874	329

Method of enacting	334

xix	336

Meetings of the Board Chairman	340

Auditors elected	345

Jurisdiction of County Courts	351

Out of sessions	354

PAGE	356

All magistrates are justices	359

CHAPTER XLII	360

ATTEMPTS TOWARDS A FEDERAL UNION	366

60	367

Imperfection of the Federal Council scheme	372

Are these conditions existent in Victoria?	378

Its probable effect on the Cabinet system	384

281	399

Always Crown appointment	401

63	402

Consideration of the point 123	11

Confirmed by the Home Government 26	26

Division of New South Wales into three Crown Land Districts 40	40

Title	The Government of Victoria (Australia)
Author	Edward Jenks
Publisher	Macmillan and Company, 1891
Original from	Harvard University
Digitized	3 Dec 2007
Length	403 pages

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