The Statesman's Year-bookSt. Martin's Press, 1904 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 135 - NATAL. Constitution and Government. THE colony of Natal, formerly an integral part of the Cape of Good Hope settlement, was erected in 1856 into a separate colony under the British crown, represented first by a Lieutenant-Governor, and since 1879 by a Governor. Under the charter...
Pàgina 127 - In the ten financial years from 1874 to 1883, the value of the new coinage was as follows:— On July 16, 1861, an Act was passed by the Government of India, providing for the issue of a paper currency through a Government department of Public Issue, by means of promissory notes. Circles of issue were established from time to time, as found necessary, and the notes were made legal tender within the circle...
Pàgina 17 - Church and Education. The Established Church of England is Protestant Episcopal. Its fundamental doctrines and tenets are embodied in the Thirty-nine Articles, agreed upon in Convocation in 1562, and revised and finally settled in 1571. But though the Episcopal is the State religion, all others are fully tolerated, and civil disabilities do not attach to any class of British subjects. The...
Pàgina 232 - All the 18 provinces contain coal, and China may be regarded as one of the first coal countries of the world.
Pàgina 401 - Government, which the sovereign may consult on extraordinary occasions. Church and Education. According to the terms of the Constitution, entire liberty of conscience and complete social equality is granted to the members of all religious confessions. The royal family, and a majority of the inhabitants, belong to the Reformed Church ; but the Roman Catholics are not far inferior in numbers.
Pàgina 214 - If the successor be under eighteen years of age, which is declared to be the age of majority, the two chambers meet together for the purpose of nominating a regent during the minority. In the case of a vacancy of the throne, the two chambers, deliberating together, nominate provisionally to the regency.
Pàgina 375 - Council shall, in accordance with the provisions for the organization of the Privy Council, deliberate upon important matters of State, when they have been consulted by the Emperor.
Pàgina 4 - The sovereign is not only the head, but also the beginning and the end — caput, principium, et finis — of Parliament; he alone, can summon Parliament; and no Parliament, save on the demise of a sovereign, can assemble of its own accord. Parliament is summoned by the writ of the sovereign issued out of Chancery, by advice of the privy council, at least thirty-five days previous to its assembling.
Pàgina 127 - to provide for the ultimate adoption of an uniform system of weights and measures of capacity throughout British India ' was passed by the Governor-General of India in Council in 1871. The Act orders : Art. 2. ' The primary standard of weight shall be called a...
Pàgina 321 - The Grand-ducal house of Mecklenburg is the only reigning family in Europe of Slavonic origin, and claims to be the oldest sovereign house in the Western world. In their full title, the Granddukes style themselves Princes of the Vandals; and they trace their descent to Genseric, King of the Vandals, who conquered Spain in the fifth century, and, going over to Africa, took Carthage in 439.