Sabject.

58

Date.

Vol.

No

103

TPU

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

6

+10

20 July 1870

II.

651

EXTRA-TERRITORIAL JURISDICTION—continued.

6 Sept. 1870

II.

660

17 Nov. 1870

11.

670

14 Dec. 1870

II.

678

2 Deo, 1872

II.

788

A

18 July 1872

11.

22 April 1873

==

772

814

30 Sept. 1873 1 May 1874

II. III.

861

17

15 June 1874

III.

25

WESTERN PACIFIC ORDER IN COUNCIL.

New Order necessary to enable Her Majesty to exercise the power conferred by the proposed conventions with Tonga and Samoa.

Undesirable for Her Majesty to assume jurisdiction over

foreigners outside Her Majesty's Dominions. Proposal to confer on the High Commissioner the power '

to try capital cases.

NATIVE TERRITORIES BEYOND THE BRITISH SOUTH

AFRICAN POSSESSIONS.

Provision in Order in Council under Foreign Jurisdiction Acta empowering the Courts to enforce the attendance of a witness.resident in Native Territory Competency of Her Majesty to acquire by Treaty with Native Chiefs jurisdiction over Foreign Subjecta re- siding within their territory

MURDER AT ONITSHA ON THE NIGER.

Issue of Commission under Acta 46 (inorge III. c. 54, and 57 George III. c. 53, for bringing a man named Williams, and his wife, who were implicated, to Sierra Leone for trial

..A

HOMICIDE. CAUSE OF DEATH IN COLONY, DEATH

OUTSIDE. New South Wales Act enabling the Colonial Courts to try persons accused of houțicide when the cause of death happens in the Colony and when the death occurs elsewhere, and vice versa.

JURISDICTION WITHIN THE TERRITORIES OF CHIEFS Mankoroane anD MONTSIOA. (Bechuanaland.) Proposed Order in Council. Clause empowering the Courts to receive evidence upon affirmation or declară” ition instead of an oath. Draft Order in Council

4 Feb. 1879

III.

191

20 March 1879

Ill.

196

:

12 Aug. 1879

III.

209

3 Aug. 1880

11.

232

11. Aug. 1881

III.

263

'18 Oct. 1881

267

28 Jan. 1882

III.

272

8 Ang. 1883

III.

300

24 June 1874

III.

28

15 Nov. 1884

IV.

28

23 Dec. 1884

IV.

34

S..

14 Oct. 1874

III.

10

Mode of acquiring legal jurisdiction over persone other

than British subjects

11 Dec. 1884

20 July 1885

IV. IV.

32

47

PROTECTORATE IN NEW GUINEA.

EXTRA-TERRITORIAL JURISDICTION—continued.

L.

MURDER OF BRITISH SUBJECT BY NATIVE OUTSIDE BRITISH TERRITORY, WEST AFRICA SETTLEMENTS.

No jurisdiction possessed by Colonial Courts

CRIMES COMMITTED AGAINST BRITISH SUBJECTS OUTSIDE

BRITISH TERRITORY.

Proposed Imperial legislation giving Colonial Courts, West Africa, authority to punish crimes committed outside British territory against British subjects of persons domiciled in a British Colony,

TRIAL OF ALIEN RESIDENT AT SIERRA LEONE FOR !

OFFENCE OUTSIDE.

JURISDICTION OVER BRITISH SUBJECTS CLAIMING FIJI

NATIONALITY.

Within and beyond the limits of the Fijian State

OFFENCES IN TERRITORIES ADJACENT TO STRAITS

SETTLEMENTS.

Extension of the Jurisdiction of the Criminal Courts of

the Straits Settlements to...

UN-

TRIAL OF PERSONS AT SIERRA LEONE FOR MURDER

IN BRITISH TERRITORY-PLACE OF DEATH CERTAIN.

Absence of evidence that they were British subjects or

not the subjects of any civilised Power.

NATIVE TERRITORIES ADJACENT TO GOLD COAST.

Proposed Order in Council to enable the Legislature of

the Gold Coast to legislate for.

SUPREME COURTS OF AUSTRALASIAN COLONIES AND

Hore Kora.

Draft Order in Council extending the jurisdiction of

OFFENCES COMMITTED BY BRITISH SUBJECTS IN THE

PACIFIC ISLANDS.

Proposed claus to be inserted in the Pacific Islanders Protection Bill, giving jurisdiction to the High Com- missioner and to the Supreme Court, Fiji

PUNISHMENT IN

BECHUANALAND PROTECTORATE.

Reference :-

C.O. 885

6

10 April 1875

III.

54

29 April 1875

III.

56

No jurisdiction over the subjects of any civilised Power.

other than Great Britain. Operation of the Imperial Act 26 & 27 Vict. c. 35 in the portions of the Protectorate south of the 25° of South Latitude.

10 Aug. 1885

IV.

61

*12 Oct, 1885.

IV.

58

Acquisition by Treaty with the Chiefs of the right to exercise jurisdiction over the subjects of civilised Powers other than Great Britain.

21 April 1886

IV.

67

:

OFFENCES AGAINST BRITISH SUBJECTS OUTSIDE BRITISH

TERRITORY.

7832

A

3 Jan, 1877

III.

4 Aug. 1877

121 144

Proposal to throw on the prisoner the burden of proving... 5. Aug. 1886 (k...that he is the subject of some other civilised Power ..... 30 Nov. 1886

IV.

74

IV.

79

OFFENCES MALTA OF BRITISH VESSELS WHILE OUTSIDE. Incompetency of the Malta Legislature to legislate

for.

ON BOARD

16 July 1875

III.

64

I'

OFFENCES COMMITTED BY BRITISH SUBJECTS ON THE

HIGH SNAS.

Provisions of the Pacific Order in Council

Need for Trial by Jury!.

ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC-

COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH-NOT TO

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

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