Resolutions of the National Congress of British West Africa Year: 1920
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Resolutions of the National Congress of British West Africa
Legislative (Including Municipal) Reforms and the Granting of the Franchise and Administrative Reforms with Particular Reference to Equal Rights and Opportunities
Education with Particular Reference to a West African University
Commercial Enterprise with Particular Reference to (A) The Scheme of the Empire Resources Development Committee; (B) Banking; (C) Shipping
Judicial Reforms with Particular Reference to an Appellate Court
West African Press Union
The Policy of the Government in Relation to the Land Question
The Right of the People to Self Determination
The Inauguration of the Congress of Africans of British West Africa
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Abstract

1. That in the opinion of this Conference the time has arrived for a change in the Constitutions of the several British West African Colonies, so as to give the people an effective voice in their affairs both in the Legislative and Municipal Governments, and that the Conference pledges itself to submit proposals for such reforms. 2. That this Conference recommends a Constitution on the following lines: (1) An Executive Council as at present composed. (2) A Legislative Council composed of representatives of whom one-half shall be nominated by the Crown and the other half elected by the people, to deal with Legislation generally. (3) A House of Assembly, composed of the members of the Legislative Council together with six other financial representatives elected by the people, who shall have the power of imposing all taxes and of discussing freely and without reserve the items on the Annual Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure prepared by the Governor in the Executive Council and approving of them.

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