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Serial No.
Colony.
Date.
Registry
No.
166 Ceylon
Apr. 8, 1978
4362
167
Fiji -
Apr. 15, 1878
4735
168
Jamaica
May 2, 1878
5391
153
Canada
Nov. 16, 1877
14,613
Provision in a Colonial Act for the extradition of fugitive criminals, for the execution of existing treaties, and of any further treaties which Great Britain may conclufle with foreign powers.
169
Gibraltar
May 14, 1878
6636
154
Barbados
Nov. 24, 1877
14,008
Validity of writs issued by the Governor in Council for the election of members to serve in the Assembly.
170
Falklands
May 28, 1878
0682
155
Ditto
156
Turke Island
Dec. 6, 1877
Dec. 21, 1877
14,575
Ditto.
171
Canada
May 28, 1878
6683
52
Compensation by the Government of St. Do
mingo to Mr. Godet for the loss of his vessel the "Brisk," and reparation for the outrage committed on the British flag by the seizure of the vessel.
172
New Zealand
June 29, 1878
8209
157
Lagos
1878.
Jan. 1, 1878
85
Validity of the Lagos Ordinance No. 2 of
1867.
173
Canada
159
General
Jan. 15, 1878
670
Necessity of submitting to the Privy Council appointments of Legislative Councillors in cases where there is no express provision in the Royal Instructions that appointments by warrant under the Sign Manual are to be made with the advice of the Privy Council, and sufficiency for its purpose of the form of warrant submitted.
July 9, 1878
8491
174
Victoria
July 15, 1878
8796
Subject.
Approval of draft Letters Patent annexing the
Cocos or Keeling Islands to Ceylon. No. 141.)
(See
Validity of certaiu marriages solemnised in the islands prior to their erection into a British Colony.
Liability of the Governor to be sued personally in the courts of the Colony in the ordinary processes of law.
Proposed Order in Council for regulating the trade of Gibraltar, and checking the smuggling trade carried on between that port and the Spanish coast.
Legality of the detention of the "Star of India," and liability of the Governor in respect of such detention.
Inclusion within the boundaries of the Dominion of all those territories on the North American continent which, though taken possession of in the name of the Crown, have not been annexed to any Colony.
Propriety of submitting for the Royal assent an Act relating to wills and other testamentary instruments.
Power of the Governor-General in Council to call out the militia for the suppression of a local disturbance Dot amounting to an insurrection.
Correctness of the views entertained by the Colonial Ministry and Attorney-General as to the circumstances in which moneys in the Treasury were legally available for, and appli- cable to, the public service.
Difference of opinion amongst the Colonial authorities as to the proper method of pro- claiming and administering martial law.
Sufficioncy of a draft Bill to legalize marriages
contracted before the Cession.
Temporary appointments of officers to discharge
the duties of another office.
Determination as to what waters around the Rock should be deemed to be within the limits of the port.
Validity of a Bill assented to by the Goternor but which had not received the Royal
assent.
Necessity of Imperial legislation for the consti- tution of an appeal to the Privy Council from the decisions of the Supreme Court of Fiji. Power of the Colonial Bank to redeem its notce in Mexican or Spanish dollars after their de- monetisation, or in British token silver beyond the amout of 40s.
Judgment of the Chief Justice in the case of one Hunt, sentenced to one year's imprison- ment on a charge of conspiracy to murder, with reference to the question whether the court had jurisdic'ion to try the case.
159 Transvaal
Jan. 19, 1878
822
Sufficiency of a proposed Order in Council to confirm and validate the proclamation issued by Sir T. Shepstone for the establishment of a court of justice.
175
Cape
July 23, 1878
9272
176
160
Western Australia
Jan. 22, 1878
872
Propriety of submitting for the Royal Assent an amended Bill to legalize marriage with s deceased wife's sister.
Foji
177
St. Vincent
July 26, 1878
July 28, 1878
9370
12,145
161
South Australia
Jan. 23, 1878
938
Status in this country of children of paren is who, having an English domicile, enter, in a colony where marriage with a deceased wife's sister is legal, into such a marriage.
178
Gibraltar
Aug. 9, 1879
10,696
162
New South Wales
Feb. 9, 1878
1764
:
Propriety of submitting for Her Majesty's sanc- tion the Act to amend the law relating to divorce and matrimonial
causes. (See
179
Western Australis
Aug. 10, 1878
10,184
Nos. 147 and 150.)
103
Sierra Leone
Feb. 12, 1878
1901
164
Lagos
Mar. 27, 1878
4171
165
¡ Straits
Mar. 28, 1878
4880
Question raised by the Chief Justice as to whether the English Statute of Limitations 3 & 4 William 4. c. 27. was in force in the Colony, with reference to the proposed pur- chase by the Government of property from a Mr. Heddle with funds advanced from the Imperial Treasury.
Power of Her Majesty's Consul at Fernando Po to send a British subject to Lagos for trial on a charge of slave-dealing.
Power of Her Majesty to establish a law pro- viding for the surrender of fugitive criminals in the Straits Settlements.
180
Fiji
Aug. 12, 1878
10,225
181
West Indies –
Ang. 16, 1878
10,512
182
Fiji
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Aug. 28, 1878
11,109
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Serial No.
Colony.
Date.
Registry No.
183
Cape
Sept. 6, 1878
11,489
184
Cape
Sept. 9, 1878
11,638
184A
Cyprus
Sept. 10, 1878
1848
Ditto
Sept. 11, 1878
184c
Ditto
Sept. 12, 1878
185 Western Australia
Sept. 18, 1878
12,104
55
185A
Cyprus
Sept. 23, 1878
1858
Ditto
Nov. 11, 1878
186
Australia
Nov. 18, 1878
14,830
186▲ Cyprus
Dec. 4, 1878
186B
Ditto
Dec. 18, 1878
F
187
Malta
Dec. 19, 1878
16,434
188
New South Wales
1879.
Jan. 9, 1879
503
189
Jamaica
Jau. 24, 1879
1142
Bubject.
Sufficiency of a draft instrument granting to the High Commissioner the power to confer upon Imperial officers local rank, and to entitle them to bear such rank wherever they may be serving in South Africa.
Sufficiency of Letters Patent for the annexation of the Walfisch Bay territory under certain conditions.
Draft instruments constituting the office of High Commissioner, and providing for the government of the island.
Ditto.
Ditto.
Treatment of a Bill irregularly assented to by the Governor, and which should have been reserved for Her Majesty's assent as if it had been so reserved. (See No. 179.)
:
Turkish capitulations with foreign countries as
affecting Cyprus,
Whether a native of Cyprus, accused of being concerned in the death of an Ottoman subject, who had been brought before the Consular Court of Alexandria, was amenable to the jurisdiction of that Court.
Occupation of the Chesterfield Islands by the
French.
Draft Ordinance empowering the High Com- missioner to prohibit persons whom he should believe to be dangerous to the peace and good order of the island from residing therein. Amended Ordinance for the expulsion of persons believed to be dangerous to the peace and good order of the island (see preceding report).
Extradition to the French Government of M. Lavonte, a Frenchman sentenced by the Cour d'Assises at Constantia in Algeria to 20 years hard labour.
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Decision pronounced in the county court at Neath in an action brought upon a contract entered into by Mr. Forster, the Agent- General of the Colony; and the question as to how far, and in what manner, Colonial Governments should be enabled to sue, and whether they should be made liable to be sued, in the courts of this country.
Regularity of the proceedings in the trial of Richard Baker, alias Bill Baker, and four other persons, who were convicted and sen- tenced to death for the murder of a man unknown.