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.