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Legislatures TRY confer on their Judicatures Jurisdiction for certain Purposes
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and after the Date of such Letters Patent abso. lutely cease and determine, and the said Posses- sion shall be from the Date of such Meeting a Franchised Colony.
And with respect to the Jurisdiction of Colonial Logislatures, and for the Purpose of creating in certain Cases an Inter-Colonial Jurisdiction-
18. Subject to the Qualifications mentioned in the Tenth Section of this Act, it shall be lawful for the Legislature of any Franchised Colony, Limits of the with respect to such Colony, by any Act which, Colony ;
before receiving the Royal Assent, and in order
beyond the
subject to
Authorities
Colonial Territories affected.
Assent of the thereto, shall have been reserved for the Significa- of the extra tion thereon of Her Majesty's Pleasure, under the Twelfth Section of this Act, and it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, with respect to any Crown Colony, by Order in Council, to authorize and require the Supreme or other Court of Judicature within the same Colony, subject to any Condi- ditions or Modifications which by such Act.or Order in Council may be prescribed, to take cog- nizance, either originally or by way of Appeal, of all or any Suits or Actions or Prosecutions which may arise in respect of any Act or Matter oc- curring wholly or partly without the Limits of such Colony, and either within or partly within any other of Her Majesty's Colonial Posses- sions, in the same Manner as if the same had occurred wholly within the Limits of such first-mentioned Colony, and to make Regula- tions respecting the Attendance of Witnesses in any such Suit, Action, or Prosecution, and the Mode of enforcing such Attendance, and respect- ing the Custody and Conveyance of any Person charged with the Commission of any Crime in part or in whole within such Colonial Possessions as last aforesaid, and respecting such other Matters as may be requisite for the due Trial of such Person by such Court as aforesaid; provided that no such Act or Order as aforesaid shall, by virtue of this Act, have any Force or Effect within any sucli Colonial Possession as last afore- said,
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said, or upon any Matter or Thing occurring within or partly within such Colonial Possession, except so far as the same shall be confirmed, as to every such Colonial Possession, if a Franchised Colony, by an Act of the Legislature thereof, and if a Crown Colony by an Order of Her Majesty in Council; and provided also, that nothing herein contained shall interfere with or prevent the Operation of the Act of the Thirteenth Year
of Her Majesty, Chapter Fifteen, intituled " An "Act to authorize the Establishment of Courts "of Appeal for certain of Her Majesty's West "India Islands," and the Act therein referred to, or of the Act of the Twenty-third and Twenty- fourth Years of Her Majesty, intituled "An Act "to enable the Legislatures of Her Majesty's "Possessions abroad to make Enactments similar "to the Enactment of the Act George the "Fourth, Chapter Thirty-one, Section Eight."
19. It shall also be lawful for the Legislature Colonial
of every Colony, subject to the Qualifications Legislatures mentioned in the Tenth Section of this Act, by Jurisdiction
may confer any Law, to authorize and require the Courts of over their Judicature of such Colony, or any of them, to take without the
Officers cognizance of all or any Suits, Actions, or Prosecu-
Limits of the tions whatsoever which may arise or be brought
Colony. against any Person holding or having held any public Office, Trust, or Employment under or on the Appointment of the Government of such Colony, in respect of any Act, Default, Miscon- duct, or Offence, or other Matter in or relating to such Office, Trust, or Employment, notwithstand- ing that such Office, Trust, or Employment may be or have been exercised, or such Act, Default, Misconduct, Offence, or Matter may have been committed, made, or done, without the Limits of such Colony or of the Jurisdiction of such Legis- lature (and whether within the United Kingdom or not).
20. From and after the Commencement of this Act, every Colonial Law now or hereafter to
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