6. The right of asking supplementary questions should not be restricted to the member putting the original question, but should be allowed to be exercised by any other member. 7. (a) Except customs, post, telegraph, mint, salt, opium, railways, army, and navy and tributes from Indian States, all other sources of revenue should be Provincial. (b) There should be no divided heads of revenue. The Government of India should be provided with fixed contributions from the Provincial Governments, such fixed contributions being liable to revision when extraordinary and unforeseen contingencies render such revision necessary. (c) The Provincial Council should have full authority to deal with all matters affecting the internal administration of the province including the power to raise loans, to impose and alter taxation, and to vote on the Budget. All items of expenditure, and all proposals concerning ways and means for raising the necessary revenue, should be embodied in Bills and submitted to the Provincial Council for adoption. (d) Resolutions on all matters within the purview of the (e) A resolution passed by the Provincial Legislative Council shall 8. A special meeting of the Provincial Council may be summoned on a requisition by not less than one-eighth of the members. 9. A Bill, other than a Money Bill, may be introduced in Council in accordance with rules made in that behalf by the Council itself, and the consent of the Government should not be required therefor. 10. All Bills passed by Provincial Legislatures shall have to receive the assent of the Governor before they become law, but may be vetoed by the Governor-General. 11. The term of office of the members shall be five years. II.-Provincial Governments 1. The head of every Provincial Government shall be a Governor who shall not ordinarily belong to the Indian Civil Service or any of the permanent services. 2. There shall be in every Province an Executive Council which, with the Governor, shall constitute the Executive Government of the Province. 3. Members of the Indian Civil Service shall not ordinarily be appointed to the Executive Councils. 4. Not less than one-half of the members of the Executive Council shall consist of Indians to be elected by the elected members of the Provincial Legislative Council. 5. The term of office of the members shall be five years. III.-Imperial Legislative Council 1. The strength of the Imperial Legislative Council shall be 150. 2. Four-fifths of the members shall be elected. 3. The franchise for the Imperial Legislative Council should be widened as far as possible on the lines of electorates for Mohammedans for the Provincial Legislative Councils, and the elected members of the Provincial Legislative Councils should also form an electorate for the return of members to the Imperial Legislative Council. 4. One-third of the Indian elected members should be Mohammedans elected by separate Mohammedan electorates in the several Provinces, in the proportion, as nearly as may be, in which they are represented on the Provincial Legislative Councils by separate Mahommedan electorates. Vide provisos to section I, clause 4. 5. The President of the Council shall be elected by the Council itself. 6. The right of asking supplementary questions shall not be restricted to the member putting the original question but should be allowed to be exercised by any other member. 7. A special meeting of the Council may be summoned on a requisition by not less than one-eighth of the members. 8. A Bill, other than a Money Bill, may be introduced in Council in accordance with rules made in that behalf by the Council itself, and the consent of the Executive Government should not be required therefor. 9. All Bills passed by the Council shall have to receive the assent of the Governor-General before they become law. 10. All financial proposals relating to sources of income and items of expenditure shall be embodied in Bills. Every such Bill and the Budget as a whole shall be submitted for the vote of the Imperial Legislative Council. 11. The term of office of members shall be five years. 12. The matters mentioned hereinbelow shall be exclusively under the control of the Imperial Legislative Council: (a) Matters in regard to which uniform legislation for the whole of India is desirable. (b) Provincial legislation in so far as it may affect interprovincial fiscal relations. (c) Questions affecting purely Imperial Revenue, excepting (d) Questions affecting purely Imperial Expenditure, except that (f) Resolutions on all matters relating to the administration 13. A Resolution passed by the Legislative Council should be binding on the Executive Government, unless vetoed by the GovernorGeneral in Council: provided, however, that if the resolution is again passed by the Council after an interval of not less than one year, it must be given effect to. 14. A motion for adjournment may be brought forward for the discussion of a definite matter of urgent public importance, if supported by not less than one-eighth of the members present. 15. When the Crown chooses to exercise its powers of veto in regard to a Bill passed by a Provincial Legislative Council or by the Imperial Legislative Council, it should be exercised within twelve months from the date on which it is passed, and the Bill shall cease to have effect as from the date on which the fact of such veto is made known to the Legislative Council concerned. 16. The Imperial Legislative Council shall have no power to interfere with the Government of India's direction of the military affairs and the foreign and political relations of India, including the declaration of war, the making of peace and the entering into treaties. IV.—The Government of India 1. The Governor-General of India will be the head of the Government of India. 2. He will have an Executive Council, half of whom shall be Indians. 3. The Indian members should be elected by the elected members of the Imperial Legislative Council. 4. Members of the Indian Civil Service shall not ordinarily be appointed to the Executive Council of the Governor-General. 5. The power of making all appointments in the Imperial Civil Services shall vest in the Government of India, as constituted under this scheme, due regard being paid to existing interests, subject to any laws that may be made by the Imperial Legislative Council. 6. The Government of India shall not ordinarily interfere in the local affairs of a province, and powers not specially given to Provincial Government, shall be deemed to be vested in the former. The authority of the Government of India will ordinarily be limited to general supervision and superintendence over the Provincial Governments. 7. In legislative and administrative matters the Government of India, as constituted under this scheme, shall, as far as possible, be independent of the Secretary of State. 8. A system of independent audit of the accounts of the Government of India should be instituted. V.-The Secretary of State in Council 1. The Council of the Secretary of State for India should be abolished. 2. The salary of the Secretary of State should be placed on the British Estimates. 3. The Secretary of State should, as far as possible, occupy the same position in relation to the Government of India, as the Secretary of State for the Colonies does in relation to the Governments of the self-governing Dominions. 4. The Secretary of State for India should be assisted by two Permanent Under-Secretaries, one of whom should always be an Indian. VI.-India and the Empire 1. In any Council or other body which may be constituted or convened for the settlement or control of Imperial affairs, India shall be adequately represented in like manner with the Dominions and with equal rights. 2. Indians should be placed on a footing of equality in respect of status and rights of citizenship with other subjects of His Majesty the King throughout the Empire. VII.-Military and other matters 1. The military and naval service of His Majesty, both in their commissioned and non-commissioned ranks, should be thrown open to Indians and adequate provision should be made for their selection, training, and instruction in India. Commissions in the Army. Volunteering. Separation of 2. Indians should be allowed to enlist as volunteers. 3. Executive Officers in India shall have no judicial powers entrusted to them, and the judiciary in every province shall be placed under the highest Court of that province. judicial and SYED MOHAMMED. N. SUBBA RAU, General Secretaries. 96 III A LETTER TO THE HON. BABU BHUPENDRA NATH BASU (AN EXPERIMENT IN THE APPLICATION OF THE PRINCIPLE OF DYARCHY TO THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED PROVINCES) PREFATORY NOTE1 The study of Indian conditions contained in this pamphlet has been compiled in order to obtain the considered criticism of friends with whom I have discussed the subject with which it deals. I should be glad if corrections and criticisms can be noted on the blank pages opposite the text to which they refer in clearly legible writing. The criticism need not be signed. If signed I shall treat the signature as absolutely confidential. Where the criticism is unsigned, I should be glad if the writer would describe himself in general terms, stating (1) Whether he is a European or an Indian. (2) Whether he is a member of a public body or of the public service, and adding any other particulars showing the angle from which he views the question. In working out my final results I should like to be free to quote these descriptions, if I have occasion to quote an opinion; but critics will kindly state if they do not wish this to be done. If, however, I quote an opinion in no case shall I reveal the identity of the author, where that identity is made known to me. These conditions will, I think, enable criticism to be given without reserve. Kindly forward your criticisms at your earliest convenience to the undersigned LIONEL CURTIS, c/o MESSRS. A. H. WHEELER & Co., 15 ELGIN ROAD, ALLAHABAD. 1 Also printed on the covers of papers IV, V, and VI as originally circulated in India. |