3852.
SIR,
No. 246.
(MAURITIUS.)
FOREIGN OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE.
Foreign Office, April 25, 1864. I AM directed by Earl Russell to request that you will state to Mr. Secretary Cardwell that his Lordship has consulted Her Majesty's Advocate General with regard to the proceedings of the Governor of the Mauritius, as stated in your letter of the 14th inst., in regard to the goods taken out of the Confederate Prize "Sea Bride" which were brought to Port Louis in the French bark "Sirene," and that the Queen's Advocate is of opinion that the Governor of Mauritius was rightly advised by the Procureur-General in this matter, and that it was not competent to the Governor either to take possession of that property or to take any legal steps against Christopher Elmstone.
Sir F. Rogers, Bart.
I am, &c.
(Signed) A. H. LAYARD.
Q 16278.-668. 25.-2:86.
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
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4718.
SIR,
No. 247.
(TURK'S ISLANDS.)
TREASURY SOLICITOR to TREASURY.
Treasury, May 6, 1864. WITH reference to the annexed letter from the Colonial Office, dated 26th April 1864, relating to certain property at Turk's Islands, which devolved to the Crown on the death of one Mary Astwood, intestate and illegitimate, and which formed the subject of my report of the 5th October 1863,* I beg to
Report
That under the circumstances stated in the several papers now forwarded from the Colonial Office there does not appear to be any objection to a compliance with the course suggested by the Colonial Office, viz., that the property, subject to the deduction of one tenth thereof for the Crown's share, should be equally divided between the natural son and half daughter of the deceased, after deducting any expenses which may have been incurred on the part of the Crown.
It will be for my Lords to determine in what manner the Crown's share should be disposed of.
G. A. Hamilton, Esq., &c. &c. &o.
I am, &c.
(Signed) H. R. REYNOLDS.
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0 16378.-265. 25.—2/86.