Serial
No.
Colony.
Date.
Registry No.
Subject.
Serial No.
Colony.
Date.
Registry No.
Subject.
116
Mauritius
Nov. 15, 1876
13,768
Ordinance for the better administration of justice
in the Seychelles.
138
Western Pacific
May 8, 1877
5328
117
Gibraltar
Nov. 25, 1876
14,043
118
Fiji -
Nov. 29, 1876
14,261
Question of the course to be pursued with regard to sailors belonging to Spanish guarda costas who may be found on board vessels illegally captured by the guarda costas and recaptured by Her Majesty's naval forces.
Validity of certain Acts passed by the Fiji Legis- lature, and the absolute legislative power of the Crown in Colonies obtained by conquest or
Order in Council for the better government of
Her Majesty's subjects in Pacific.
the Western
134
Trinidad
May 4, 1877
5303
185
May 12, 1877
6629
136
Hong Kong
May 18, 1877
5921
cession.
119
Antigua
Dec. 2, 1876
14,342
Claim of the rector of the parish of St. Mary to have the churches and rectory of the parish kept in repair at the public expense.
137
Western Australia
May 18, 1877
5922
120 Queensland
Dec. 18, 1876
15,251
Obligation on the Governors of British Colonies 10 discharge, under the Extradition Act of 1870, all the duties discharged by the police magistrate in cases of extradition from the United Kingdom,
138
South Australia
139
Sierra Leone
May 25, 1877
May 29, 1877
6191
6428
121
Fiji -
1877.
Jan. 3, 1877
658
Provisions of a draft Order in Council for regulating the exercise of Her Majesty's jurisdiction over British subjects in Weat Polynesia.
140
Canada
June 2, 1877
8729
122
Straits
Jan. 11, 1877
1287
Application to the Colony of the Extradition
Treaty between England and Holland.
141
Western Australia
-
June 12, 1877
7561
128
Canada
Jan. 22, 1877
895
Inclusion of certain crimes in the proposed Extradition Treaty between Great Britain and the United States.
142
Sierra Leone
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June 19, 1877
7486
124
General
Feb. 1, 1877
1242
Desirability, in appointing Governors to Colonies, of revoking existing Letters Patent, and creating the office of Governor by Chartern under the Great Seal.
143
Cape
June 30, 1877
8001
125 Western Australia
Feb. 3, 1877
1893
126
Canada
Feb. 5, 1877
1931
Allowance of the Bill to legalise marriage with
a deceased wife's sister.
Questions in connection with the Commission which is to determine what amount of com- pensation should be paid by the United States Government to Her Majesty's Government in return for the privileges accorded to United States citizens under Article 18 of the Treaty of Washington of 1871.
Legality of the sentence passed upon Henry
Barrow.
Powers of Her Majesty of legislating for the Transvaal Republic, with reference to a Com- mission issued to Sir T. Shepstone.
Bill to amend the law relating to piracy, with- drawn by the Governor in consequence of an objection by the Chief Justice.
Title of Assistant-Commissary-General Thomp- son to exemption from the payment of duty on liquors imported or purchased for his own consumption.
An Act "to amend the Insolvent Further
Amendment Act, 1870.”
Competency of Her Majesty to acquire a right to levy Customs duties upon British and foreign vessels trading in the rivers north and south of Sierra Leone, from the Pongas river to British Sherbro,
Imprisonment of Peter Martin, an American subject, and the claim of the United States Government for his release.
Title of Great Britain to the Keeling or Cocos
Islands. (See No. 166.)
Manner of acquiring the right to levy Customs duties on the coast line outside the boundary of the Colony.
Grant of Letters Patent to the University of the Cape of Good Hope, empowering it to confer academical degrees.
Trial of prisoners by a jury under the Western
Pacific Order in Council.
the
Reply of Mr. Ford, British Agent on
Halifax Fishery Commission, to the "answer" of the United States Government.
Visit of the British steamer "Sandringham" to Malta with reference to Her Majesty's Neu- trality Proclamation in the war between Turkey and Russia.
Propriety of giving Her Majesty's sanction to the reserved Act to amend the law relating to divorce and matrimonial causes. (See Nos. 150 and 162.)
Claim of the Church of England in Jamaica to the allowances made by the Colonial Act, 22 Vict. c. 23. B. 58, for glebe and parsonage houses,
Sufficiency of draft Orders in Council to effect objects rendered necessary by the recent change in con-titution of the Supreme Court of Sierra Leone, and the creation of a separate Supreme Court for the Gold Coast.
Propriety of giving Her Majesty's sanction to the Bill to amend the law relating to divorce and matrimonial causes. (See Nos. 147 and 162.).
15
144
Western Pacific
145
Canada
Aug. 4, 1877
Aug. 9, 1877
9557
10,205
146
Malta
Aug. 13, 1877
9820
427
127
Western Australia
Feb. 9, 1877
1654
Legality of boarding or firing into a foreign vessel, not being within the territorial limits of the Colony, on board which certain escaped Fenian convicts took refuge.
147
New South Wales
Aug. 14, 1877
9931
128
129
Ditto
Fiji -
Feb. 21, 1877
Mar. 16, 1877
2211
Title of the Colony to the Lacepede Islands.
3434
The draft Order in Council for regulating the exercise of Her Majesty's jurisdiction over British subjects in Western Polynesia. (See Report of 3rd January 1877.)
148
Jamaica
Aug, 14, 1877
9978
130
Straits
Mar. 21, 1877
3461
Surrender to the Dutch Government of fugitives from the Dutch Colonies, under the Imperial Extradition Acts and the Treaty with Hol- land.
149
Sierra Leone
Sept. 1, 1877
10,717
131
Canada
Mar. 27, 1877
3580
Use of the Great Seal of the province of Nova
Scotia.
150
New South Wales
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Sept., 1877
10,997
132
Ditto
Apr. 11, 1877
4280
Ditto.
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Serial
No.
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Registry
Date.
Colony.
No.
Sept. 26, 1877
11,650
151
Transvaal
152
St. Lucia
Nov. 14, 1877
13,761
Bubject.
Power of Sir T. Shepstone, an High Commie- sioner, to make provision by proclamation for the peace, order, and good government of the Transvaal.
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Liability of the Colonial Government under a guarantee of the payment of interest upon certain shares in the St. Lucia Central Sugar Factory Company, Limited.