द इण्डियन स्ट्रगल / भारतीय स्वाधीनता संग्राम (नेताजी सुभाष चन्द्र बोस - ऐतिहासिक विश्लेषण)

318 THE INDIAN STRUGGLE of revenues, other than proposals relating to heads of expen- diture enumerated above and proposals made by the Governor-General in discharge of his special responsibilities, will be submitted to the vote of the Assembly. The Council of State, by a motion duly passed, may require that any demand which is reduced or rejected by the Assembly shall be brought before a joint session of both Chambers for final determination. At the conclusion of the budget proceedings, the Governor-General will authenticate by his signature all appropriations, whether voted or non-votable. In the appropriation so authenticated, the Governor-General will be empowered to include any additional amounts which he regards as necessary for the discharge of any of his special responsibilities—provided that the total amount authenticated under any head is not in excess of the amount originally laid before the Legislature under that head in the statement of pro- posals for appropriation. Thus if any grant is refused by the Legislature, the Governor-General will be empowered to re- store it. The respective legislative fields of the Centre and of the provinces will be defined in terms of the subjects which will be scheduled in the Constitution Act. It is proposed further to include in the provincial list a general power to legislate on any matter of a purely local and private nature in the province. But in order to provide for the possibility that a subject which in its inception of a purely local or private character may subsequently become of All-India interest, it is proposed to make that power subject to a right of the Governor-General in his discretion to sanction general legislation by the Federal Legislature on the same subject-matter. With regard to the position of the Federal Ministers, the White Paper says that 'the number of ministers and the amounts of their respective salaries, will be regulated by Act of the Federal Legislature.’¹ Nevertheless, there is a further provision that the salary and allowances of the Federal Ministers will not be submitted to the vote of either Chamber of the Federal Legislature.² (There are similar provisions with regard to the Provincial Ministers.) ¹ Paragraph 15 of the White Paper Proposals. ² Paragraph 49 of the Proposals.