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Legislative Assembly","type":"literal","lang":"en"}],"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/terms\/issued":[{"value":"2016-06-24","type":"literal","lang":"en"},{"value":"[1884]","type":"literal","lang":"en"}],"http:\/\/www.europeana.eu\/schemas\/edm\/aggregatedCHO":[{"value":"https:\/\/open.library.ubc.ca\/collections\/bcsessional\/items\/1.0060553\/source.json","type":"literal","lang":"en"}],"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/elements\/1.1\/format":[{"value":"application\/pdf","type":"literal","lang":"en"}],"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2009\/08\/skos-reference\/skos.html#note":[{"value":" REPORT\nOf a Committee of the Honourable the Privy Council, approved by His Excellency\nthe Governor-General, covering a Report of the Honourable the Minister of\nJustice, disallowing \"An Act to prevent the immigration of Chinese.\"\nBy Command.\nJNO. ROBSON,\nProvincial Secretary's Office, Provincial Secretary.\n21st April, 1884.\nTho Secretary of State to His Honour the Lieutenant-Governor.\nOttawa, 9th April, 1884.\nSir,\u2014I have the honour to transmit to you, herewith, for the information of your Government, a copy of a Report of a Committee of the Honourable the Privy Council, duly approved\nby His Excellency the Governor-General, covering a Report of the Honourable the Minister\nof Justice, recommending, for the reasons therein given, that the Act passed by the Legislature\nof the Province of British Columbia,, 47 Vic. (1884), Chapter 3, and intituled \"An Act to\nprevent the immigration of Chinese,\" be disallowed.\nI also enclose an order of His Excellency the Governor-General declaring His Excellency's\ndisallowance of the said Act, to which is appended the certificate of His Excellency as to the\ndate of the receipt of the Act in question.    I have, etc.,\n(Signed)        J. A. Chapleau,\nSecretary of State.   .\nI, Henry Charles Keith Petty Fitzinaurice, Marquis of Lansclowne, Governor-General of\nCanada, do hereby certify that the undermentioned Act, passed by the Legislature of the\nProvince of British Columbia, on the 18th clay of February, 1884, intituled \"An Act to prevent the immigration of Chinese,\" was received by me on the 7th clay of March, 1884.\nGiven under my hand and seal this 8th clay of April, 1884.\n[Seal.] (Signed)        Lansdowne.\nCopy of a Report of a Committee of the Honourable the Privy Council, approved by His\nExcellency the Governor-General in Council on the 8th April, 1884-\nThe Committee of the Privy Council have had under consideration a Report, hereunto\nannexed, dated 7th April, 188 4, from the Minister of Justice, in which it is recommended, for\nthe reasons therein set forth, that the following Act passed by the Legislature of British\nColumbia, 47th Vic. (1884), viz.: Chapter 3, \"An Act to .prevent the immigration of Chinese,\"\nshould be disallowed.\nThe Committee advise that the said Act be disallowed accordingly, and that a copy of\nthis Report be forwarded to the Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia, for the information\nof his Government.\nCertified,\n(Signed)        John J. McGee.\nGovernment House, Ottawa,\nTuesday, 8th day of April, 1884.\nPresent: His Excellency The Governor-General in Council.\nWhereas the Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of British Columbia, with the Legislative Assembly of that Province, did, on the 18th day of February, 1884, pass the Act, No. 3,\nintituled \" An Act to prevent the \"immigration of Chinese;\" 47 Vic. Disallowance of Chinese Immigration Act. 433\nAnd whereas the said Act has-been laid before the Governor-General in Council, together\nwith a Report from the Minister of Justice, recommending that the said Act should be disallowed.\nHis Excellency the Governor-General has thereupon this day been pleased, by and with\nthe advice of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada, to declare his disallowance of the said\nAct, and the same is disallowed accordingly.\nWhereof the Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of British Columbia, and all other persons whom it may concern, are to take notice and govern themselves accordingly.\n(Signed)        John J. McGee,\n  Clerk Privy Council.\nDepartment op Justice,\nOttawa, 7th April, 1884.\nTo His Excellency the Governor-General in Council:\nThe undersigned has had under consideration an Act passed during the last Session of the\nLegislature of British Columbia, No. 3, intituled \" An Act to prevent the immigration of\nChinese.\"\nThe 2nd section makes it unlawful for any Chinese to come into the Province of British\nColumbia, or any part thereof, and imposes a penalty upon those Chinamen who clo so, and\nprovides that they may be arrested without warrant.\nBy the 3rd section it is provided that any one who brings, or assists in bringing, into\nBritish Columbia any Chinese, or who in any way assists any Chinese in coming into British\nColumbia, is liable to a penalty of $200, and in default of payment to imprisonment for six\nmonths for each Chinaman so brought in or assisted.\nBy the 4th section it is provided that offenders against the 3rd section may be arrested\nwithout warrant by any Constable and brought before any Justice of the Peace, to be dealt\nwith according to law\nThe preamble to the Act is as follows:\u2014\n\" Whereas by the 'British North America Act, 1867,' sec. 95, it is enacted as follows :\u2014\n\"'In each Province the Legislature may make laws in relation to agriculture in the\n\" ' Province and to immigration into the Province, and it is hereby declared that the Parlia-\n\" ' ment of Canada may from time to time make laws in relation to agriculture in all or any of\n\" ' the Provinces, and to immigration into any or all of the Provinces; and any law of the\n\" ' Legislature of a Province relative to agriculture or to immigration shall have effect in and\n\" ' for the Province as long and as far only as it is not repugnant to any Act of the Parliament\n\" 'of Canada;'\n\" And whereas it is expedient to prevent the immigration of Chinese into British\n\" Columbia.\"\nHaving reference to the condition of Canada at the time of the union of the Provinces,\nthe undersigned is of opinion that the authority given by the 95th section of the British North\nAmerica Act is an authority to regulate and promote immigration into the Province, and not\nan authority to prohibit immigration. A law which prevents the people of any-country from\ncoming into a Province cannot be said to be of a local or private nature. On the contrary, it\nis one involving Dominion, and possibly Imperial, interests. But, without coming at present\nto a definite conclusion as to whether the Act in question is one within the legislative authority\nof Parliament, or of the Legislature, the undersigned is clearly of opinion that it is an Act\nthat ought not to be put into operation without due consideration, and without correspondence\nwith the Imperial authorities.\nIf the Legislature had followed the same course with respect to this Act that it followed\nwith respect to an Act, No. 4, intituled \"An Act to regulate the Chinese population of British\nColumbia,\" and provided that it should not come into force until one year after its passage,\ntime would have been given for necessary consideration and correspondence, but by the 8th\nsection of the Act under consideration it came into operation on the 31st March last.\nAs the Act clearly discriminates against the Chinese, and as it impioses great penalties\nupon Chinamen coming into British Columbia, and upon those who assist Chinamen to come\ninto British Columbia, and as at least great doubts must be entertained as to the authority of\nthe Legislature to pass the Act, the undersigned respectfully recommends that it be disallowed.\n(Signed)       A. 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