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Colonial Government.

General legislative Powers in case of Colonial Possessions declared ;

15.

Delegation of such Powers; 16.

; 17.

Colonial Legislatures may confer on their Judicatures Jurisdiction for certain Purposes beyond the Limits of the Colony; subject to Assent of the Authorities of the Extra-Colonial Territories affected; 18.

Colonial Legislatures may confer Jurisdiction over their Officers

without the Limits of the Colony; 19.

1864. 27 VICT.

DRAFT

PART IV.

; 20.

Power to define Boundaries.

Power to Governors of contiguous Colonics to alter and define

Boundaries; 21..

OF A

BILL

า

PART V.

Repeal of Acts.

Repeal of Acts in Schedule, and of all other Acts or Parts of Acts

inconsistent with present Act; 22. SCHEDULES.

INTITULED

An Act relating to the Government of the Colonies.

W

IIEREAS it is expedient that the Laws Preamble.

relating to the Government of Her Majesty's Colonial Possessions shall

in certain Particulars be declared, amended, and consolidated: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Autho. rity of the same, as follows:

PART I

Preliminary.

1. This Act may be cited for all Purposes as Title. "The Colonial Government Act, 1864."

(0.52.)

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2. In

TUITT

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Reference:

C.O. 885

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

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