Colonial Chronology: A Chronology of the Principal Events Connected with the English Colonies and India from the Close of the Fifteenth Century to the Present Time

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Lawrence & Bullen, 1892 - 304 pages
 

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Page 158 - s - division, " that this house (while fully recognizing the claims of all portions of the British empire to imperial aid in their protection against perils arising from the consequences of imperial policy) is of opinion that colonies exercising the rights of self-government ought to undertake the main responsibility of providing for their own internal order and security, and ought to assist in their own external defence.
Page 110 - I must declare and avow, that, in the master. states of the world, I know not the people'* nor the senate, who in such a complication of difficult circumstances, can stand in preference to the Delegates of America, assembled in General Congress at Philadelphia.
Page 162 - Whereas the Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick have expressed their Desire to be federally united into One Dominion under the Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, with a Constitution similar in Principle to that of the United Kingdom...
Page 217 - He was to act generally upon the advice of his Executive Council, and to receive as Members of that body those persons who might be pointed out to him as entitled to be so by their possessing the confidence of the Assembly.
Page 110 - An Act to establish a fund towards further defraying the Charges of the Administration of Justice and support of the Civil Government within the Province of Quebec in America...
Page 217 - The importance of maintaining the utmost possible harmony between the policy of the legislature and of the executive government admits of no question, and it will of course be your anxious...
Page 16 - The Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading into the East Indies.
Page 217 - An Act to Re-unite the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, and for the Government of Canada...
Page 104 - Provinces on the Continent of North America, to grant without Fee or Reward, to such reduced Officers as have served in North America during the late War, and to such Private Soldiers as have been or shall be disbanded in America...

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