Serial

Date.

Colony

Registry No.

Serial

Bubject

Colony.

Date.

Registry

No.

No.

No.

790

Western Australia

December 16, 1872

12,445

Mitigation of the sentence passed on Mr. L. C. Burges for the murder of an abo- riginal native.

805

Hong Kong •

March 27, 1873

3381

·

791

Jamaica

December 23, 1872

12,648

Bill to facilitate the sale of encumbered

estates.

HOG

Canada

March 28, 1873

3379

1873.

807

Ditto

March 81, 1673

3127

792

Canada

January 17, 1873

1266

Transfer of defensive works, &c. from the Imperial to the Canadian authorities. (See Nos. 688 and 746.)

793

British Honduras

794

Natal

January 20, 1873

February 12, 1873

590

Period at which the Foreign Enlistment

Act can be put into force.

808

Babamas

April 3, 1873

3172

1264

Objections taken in the Colony for alter- ing the constitution of the Colony, (See No. 754.)

800

Canada

April 7, 1873

3316

795

Canada

February 12, 1873

1265

common

An Act passed by the Legislature in 1871

relating to

schools. (See No. 787.)

810

Australia

April 7, 1873

3317

796

Newfoundland

March 6, 1873

2089

797

Australia

March 10, 1873

2200

Whether the appointment of magistrates to keep peace and order among the set- tlers on the west coast, or French shore, of the island would contravene any existing treaty with France.

Draft Bill to enable the Australian Colo- nies to impose or remit duties upon the importation into any one of the said Colonies of any article the produce or manufacture of or imported from any other of the said Colonies. (See No. 720.)

811

812

Natal

Malta

April 14, 1873 April 16, 18-3

3349

3785

813

Victoria, General

April 18, 1873

8726

814

Fiji

-

April 22, 1873

4528

798

Fiji

March 14, 1873

3251

Proposed instructions to commanding officers of Her Majesty's ships employed in the suppression of the slave trade among the islands in the South Pacific Ocean.

815

Newfoundland

April 25, 1873

4738

799

Ditto

March 20, 1873

3251

Proposed modifications in the instructions to naval officers as to kidnapping. (See preceding report.)

816

Canada

May 13, 1873

4728

800

Canada

March 22, 1873

3182

Seizure of the schooner "Bessie," of New Brunswick, by the United States Cus- tom House officials.

817

Bahamas

May 14, 1873

4734

801

Ditto

March 24, 1878

3180

Land claims of British settlers in the

Island of San Juan.

818

Gold Coast -

May 15, 1873

4865

802

Mauritius

March 25, 1873

2821

Suggested issue of an Order in Council extending the Colonial Attorneys Relief Act (20 & 21 Vict. c. 89.) to the Colony.

819

Bahamas

May 19, 1873

5024

803

Jamaica

March 25, 1878

2822

Whether it was competent for the Local Legislature to exclude in a proposed consolidation of the Colonial Customs Laws the operation of so much of the Imperial Customs Consolidation Acta

804

Hong Kong -

March 27, 1878

3880

as were locally in force by making pro- vision on the subjects which those Acta regulated.

Draft Ordinance for preventing the build- ing or equipment in the Colony of ves- pels intended for the coolie trade.

820

Gold Coast

May 20, 1873

5070

* 2

Bubject.

Proceedings instituted by a Chinaman against a Chinese Officer who had been employed to demand his extradition, and the instructions to be issued for the Governor's guidance in the event of any similar case arising.

Abduction of Dr. Rufus Bratton; his claim for compensation. (See No. 781 and unte.)

Bill passed by the United States House of Representatives for carrying into effect the provisions of the Treaty of Wash- ington respecting fisheries.

Liability of the steam tug "Anna" to seizure for breaches of the Merchant Shipping Act of 1854.

The New Brunswick Act relating to common schools. (See Nos. 787 and 795.)

The Australian Colonies Duties Bill. (See

Nos. 720 and 797.)

The Delagos Bay dispute.

Release by the island authorities of two Italian prisoners on board the " Helène,"

the vessel having been forced by stress of weather to put into Malta.

Question under what circumstances the certificate of a foreigner naturalised in a British Colony becomes void.

Linbility of British subjects claiming Fijian nationality to British jurisdiction both within and beyond the limits of the Fijian state. (See No. 760.)

Proposed appointment of magistrates on the French shore "to regulate the fishery. (See No. 796,)

Competence of the Dominion Parliament to vest in themselves the power to ad- Ininister oaths.

Obligation of the Colony to redeem cer tain debentures issued by the Colonial Government in 1868.

What steps can properly be taken to stop the in portation by British subjects, or in British vessels, arms and ammunition into Assines or any other neighbouring port outside the limits of the Colony, Question whether Letters Patent of 1871 appointing Mr. Pope Hennessy to be Governor of the Babames bad become null and void, the making of them not having been publicly signified in the Colony within six months after the date thereof.

Whether the Queen has power, under the 150th section of the Customs Consoli- dation Act (16 & 17 Viet. c. 107.), to prohibit the exportation of arms, &c. for any particular ports or placer. (Sce No. 816.)

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