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The supreme legislative power of the British Empire is by its Constitution given to Parliament. Parliament is summoned by the writ of the sovereign issued out of Chancery, by advice of the Privy Council, at least thirty-five days previous to its assembling.
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Statistical and other Books of Reference concerning Grest Britain and Ireland
1. Official Publications
The publications of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries; the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland; the Education Department for England and Wales; the Scotch Education Department; the Commissioners of Intermediate Education and the Commissioners of National Education in Ireland; the Board of Trade, Commercial, Labour, Railway, and Statistical Departments; Census of Production (1907); the Fishery Board for Scotland; the Home Office; the Local Government Boards of England and Wales, Scotland, and Ireland; the Foreign Office; the Geological Survey; the Ordnance Survey of England, of Scotland, of Ireland; the National Debt Commissioners; the Treasury; the Admiralty; the War Office; the Register Office for England, for Scotland, for Ireland; Commissioners of Customs and Excise, and of Inland Revenue; Ecclesiastical Commissioners; Charity Commissioners; the Royal Mint; Office of the Duchy of Lancaster; Office of the Duchy of Cornwall; Office of Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues; Annual Reports of the Irish Land Commission and of the Estates Commissioners; Annual Report of the General Post office; Reports of Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress.
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Keltie, J.S. (1911). The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. In: Keltie, J.S. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230270404_1
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