xix
Serial
Colony.
Date.
Registry
No.
No.
587
Jamaica
August 6, 1869
8914
575
Canada
June 28, 1869
7188
Right of the Dominion Government to apply money raised under an Imperial guarantee for the construction of a railway between Quebec and Halifax to the purpose of defraying certain debts of the Dominion bearing a high rate of interest.
588
Gibraltar
August 6, 1889
9389
589
Canada
August 7, 1869
8908
576
Bahamas
July 2, 1869
7452
Admittance to our ports of vessels sus- pected of belonging to the Cuban insur- gents. (See No. 581.)
590
Ditto
August 10, 1869
9014
577
Ditto
July 2, 1869
7476
Course to be pursued with respect to the "Salvador" in the event of the failure
591
Ditto
August 10, 1869
9015
578
Gibraltar
July 5, 1869
7526
579
Hong Kong
July 5, 1860
7892
580
Canada
July 6, 1869
7872
580
South Australia
(Rec. July 9, 1869)
7657
of proceedings which have been taken under the 7th section of the Foreign Enlistment Act. (See Nos. 586, 568, and 574.)
Question whether certain depositions could be read at a trial now pending in Gib- raltar of certain persons for scuttling the British barque "Hope." Establishment of opium tax stations on the China coast in the neighbourhood of Hong Kong. (See No. 547a.) Minute of the Privy Council on the sub- ject of the Inter-Colonial Railway Loan. (See No. 575.)
officer to
Necessity of appointing an
administer the Government in the ab sence of the Governor for certain short periods, and the payment and appor tionment of the Governor'e salary during such absence.
592
Ditto
August 11, 1869
9070
598 Bahamas
August 12, 1869
9109
694
Canada
August 18, 1869
9451
11,032
Subject.
Representations made by the Spanish Chargé d'Affaires with regard to the American steam-vessel "Peril," or "Porit," being allowed to coal at Port Royal.
Claim of Captain Pearson, examined as a witness in the "Hope" scuttling case (see No. 678 and 808), to certain expenses.
"An Act for the relief of John Horace
Stevenson."
Competence of the Canadian Parliament to pass a certain Act respecting the public debt of Nova Scotia.
Terms and conditions of an Address from the House of Commons of the Dominion praying for the admission of Newfound- into the Dominion.
Power of the respective Lieutenant-Go- vernors of the four provinces to alter the Great Seals of those provinces.
Proclamation issued by the Captain-.
General of Cuba respecting the block- ade of the ports in consequence of the insurrection in the island.
Suggestion to pay a sum of 800,0007, due to the Hudson's Bay Company, out of the Colonial funds in hand, including part of the proceeds of the loan guaran- the by the Imperial Treasury for the Inter-Colonial Railway, (Sée No. 575.)
Detention of the steamer "Telegrafo"
at Tortola for piracy.
Claim of Mr. Fergusson for compensation on account of the destruction of his property in Cuba,
Circular to Naval Officers for their guid- ance with reference to the Foreign Enlistment Act, 59 George III., o. 69.
Power of the Receiver General of Trini- dad, under an Ordinance of December 1860 to refuse to grant a license at his discretion.
Whether the right to institute and conduct
■ private prosecution existed at Hong Kong, or whether the Attorney General was a public prosecutor in the sense of an officer in whom was vested the pre- rogative of conducting all criminal trials, to the exclusion of private prosecutions.
Difficulties which had arisen, 1st, with respect to the proposed commutation of the sentence of prisoner, C. W. Pro- tain, convicted of felony in Grenada, and sentenced to transportation; and, 2nd, with respect to certain prisoners whose sentences of transportation had been already commuted into long terms of imprisonment.
595
Virgin Islande
August 21, 1869
9666
581
Hong Kong
July 12, 1869
7890
Establishment of opium tax stations in the neighbourhood of Hong Kong. (See No. 579.)
$96
Canada
August 26, 1869
9677
582
New South Wales
July 19, 1869
8121
Removal of the restrictions as to the car- riage of percussion cape in passenger ships.
597
Bahamas
August 30, 1869
9827
583
Straits
July 28, 1869
8242
Proposed separation of the Straits Settle- ments from the diocese of Calcutta and their annexation to the diocese of Labuan.
598
Trinidad
September 18, 1869
10,578
584
Bahamas
July 31, 1869
8635
$85
Hong Kong
August 5, 1869
8843
086
Jamaica
August 6, 1869
8894
Whether the bonding in the Bahamas of munitions of war which had not been imported from the United Kingdom or any British possession, was prohibited and could be prevented under the 169th section of the Customs Consolidation Act, 16 & 17 Vict. c. 107.
Whether it would have been competent for the Governor to issue an order under the provisions of an Ordinance "to en- "able the Governor to co-operate with "the Chinese authorities for the sup- "pression of piracy, "which has recently expired, to prevent fishing vessels and trading junks from carrying stink-pots. Seizure of arms and ammunition on board the American schooner "Grapeshot" and the British schooner "La Have,"
599
Hong Kong
September 23, 1869
10,693
600 Grenada
September 30, 1869
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