سليبيا
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
He may, and no in the representative assembly. We do not think he can do so. doubt in fairness would, be bound to inform them of the course which he would take should any particular measure proposed by them be passed, by giving it when passed the assent of the Crown, or by reserving it for the consideration of Her Majesty's Government at home, but he has no distinct or constitutional right to restrain, though he has a constitutional right (if he thinks fit to exercise it) to remove his Ministers,
We should add that the signification of the Queen's pleasure, to which the Governor refers, takes place when, in the Imperial Parliament a measure is in progress affecting directly the rights of the Crown, whether that measure is introduced by the Govern- ment or by a private member, and it has no bearing in our opinion on the present question.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Carnarvon,
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We have, &c. (Signed)
H. M. CAIRNS. WM. BOVILL.
10412.
MY LORD,
No. 432.
(SIERRA LEONE.)
LAW OFFICERS to COLONIAL OFFICE.
Lincoln's Inn, October 30, 1866. We are honoured with your Lordship's commands, signified in Sir Frederic Rogers' letter of the 22nd October instant, stating that he was directed by your Lordship to request us to favour you with our opinion on the under-mentioned point in connexion with the proposed establishment of a Court of Appeal on the West Coast
of Africa.
Sir Frederic Rogers was also pleased to say that it was necessary to state that Her Majesty's powers of legislation in respect to the Settlements there are based on the Falkland Islands Act of 1843 (6 Viot. c. 13.), amended by the Act passed in 1860 (23 & 24 Vict. c. 121.). Under the former of these Acts, and in pursuance of a recom- mendation of a committee of the House of Commons, various changes had been made in the government of these Settlements.
Sir Frederic Rogers was pleased to enclose the copy of a commission, dated the 19th of February 1866, under which they were united under one Governor-in-Chief, and to say that it is now proposed by local Ordinance to institute in the different subordinate Settlements courts of civil and criminal justice held before a chief magistrate, with an appeal in civil cases to the Supreme Court of Sierra Leone or to the judges who compose it. With this view the annexed Order in Council had been framed, and the point on which our opinion was requested was whether there is any doubt of Her Majesty's competency to enable a court to sit in Sierra Leone for the ad- judication of appeals from the separate Settlements of the Gambia, the Gold Coast, and of Lagos.
In obedience to your Lordship's commands, we have the honour to
Report
That we are of opinion that there is no doubt of Her Majesty's competency to enable a court to sit in Sierra Leone for the adjudication of appeals from the separate settlements of the Gambia, the Gold Coast, and of Lagos.
We have, &c.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Carnarvon, &c.
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(Signed) H. M. CAIRNS.
WM. BOVILL,
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