PRINTED AT THE PORRIGN OFFICE
FEBRUARY 1849.
Colonial Office,
February 8, 1849.
COLONIAL POLICY.
Memorandum.
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CONFIDENTIAL.
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BRITISH GUIANA.
Appendix No. 1 to Memorandum on Colonial Policy.
Explanations and
Precis of the
British Guiana Civil List Cor-
respondence.
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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
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Powers of the Court of Policy and
Combined Court.
Power of the Combined Court held by usurpation and sufferance.
Power of the Combined Court
1. THE Court of Policy in which the Gover- nor has a casting vote is the legislature of the Colony for general purposes, including a prepa- ratory adjustment of the estimates. The Cour- bined Court, in which the elective members are a majority, is the legislature for financial purposes, including the final passing of the estimates and the imposition of taxes.
Originally, and by the Constitution, the Com- bined Court was bound to find supplies for any amount of expenditure voted by the Court of Policy, but by making difficulties they gradually usurped a controul over the estimates, and in 1835 the Government assented to a compromise by which, on a Civil List being provided for, they were authorized, for the term of the Civil List, to vote on all items of the estimates beyond those of the Civil List. The compromise has been twice renewed, and the existing Civil List ordinance is in force till December 31, 1854.
The Combined Court, though a representative oligarchical. Protection of the body, is by no means a popular body; it represents
people vests in the Crown.
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• See despatch from Lord Grey to Lieutenant-Governor
Walker, No. 60, of the 1st September, 1848, p. 61, Printed Papers.
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