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Draft Bill to confirm existing dioceses in their present rights of property by validating all acts and engagements of the Colonial bishops in respect of such property, and for providing for the future disposal of all property in which Colonial bishops had any legal or equit able interests in their episcopal character after the death, resignation, or removal of such bishops.

Seria No.

Colony.

480

Hong Kong

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Date.

Registry No.

October 9, 1867

10,196

481

Tobago

November 9, 1867

11,096

482

British Columbia

November 11, 1867

11,034

Subject.

Application from the Chinese Government for the extradition of a Chinese girl from the Colony of Hong Kong, and the Governor's action in refusing to accede thereto.

An Act" to declare the law and practice

" in cases of escheat.”

Certain questions which have arisen re- pecting the relative positions of the Judge of British Columbia and the Chief Justice of Vancouver's Island as affected by the union of the two Colo- nies.

Right of the Procureur General and Sub- stitute Procureur General to practise privately, and Draft Order in Council. (See No. 476.)

Ordinances to amend the marriage laws.

Demand made upon the Governor by the Governor of Macso for the extradition of desertera.

Abduction from Canada of a British sub- ject, named Allan Macdonald, by an officer of the State of Michigan,

"An Ordinance respecting Practitioners

in Medicine and Surgery."

"An Ordinance respecting harbour and tonnage dues, and to regulate the li- cences on the vessels engaged in the coasting and inland navigation trade;" with reference to the repugnancy to the Imperial Act. 20 & 21 Vict. e. 62., of that portion of the Ordinance which empowers the local Legislature to admit foreign bottoms to the colonial coasting trade.

468

Malta

June 18, 1867

5866

469

Straits

July 1, 1867

6347

Requisition of the Italian Consul for the extradition of a person accused of a robbery at Venice committed before that place became a part of Italy.

Period when the authority to delegate to certain persons powers conferred upon Her Majesty by the Act 29 & 30 Vict. c. 115. came into operation.

483

Mauritius

November 16, 1867

11,193

470

Victoria

July 8, 1867

6483

Question whether the sentence passed upon George Milla for fraudulent insol- vency was justifiable by law.

484

Malta

485

Hong Kong

November 25, 1867

November 29, 1867

11,585

11,981

471

Straits

July 15, 1867

6811

Draft Bill for removing any doubt as to the validity of certain instrumenta affecting the Government of the Straits Settlements. (See No. 469.)

486

Canada

December 26, 1867

12,849

472

Hong Kong -

July 18, 1867

7063

Extent of British jurisdiction over the waters in the neighbourhood of Hong Kong. (See Nos. 450 and 458.)

487

British Columbia

December 30, 1867

12,856

488

Ditto

December 31, 1867

42

478

Heligoland

July 29, 1867

7399

474

Hong Kong

-

August 7, 1867

7746

Protest of the Combined Court against the right of Mr. Gätke, Government Secre- tary, to take his seat as an elected repre- sentative, on the ground of his being a Government official and a "strarger."

Application made to the Governor by the United States Consul for the detention of some mutinous sailors.

475

British Guiana

Angust 7, 1867

7747

Steps taken by the Governor with regard to the enlistment of a British subject on board the U.S. steamer "Penob. Scot."

489

Canada

1868.

January 11, 1868

592

476

Mauritius

Angust 12, 1867

7776

Question as to whether the Procureur General of Mauritius and his substitute "can exercise the privilege of private "practice."

490

Gibraltar

January 18, 1868

689

491

New Zealand

January 28, 1868

1017

477

Caunda

August 20, 1867

1274

Contention by Mr. Fisher that the Legis- lature of New Brunswick was by the Union Act disabled from passing a law declaring that no person shall be at the same time member of the Provincial and Central Legislatures.

492

Ditto

February 3, 1868

1262

478

New Zealand

August 26, 1867

8395

True construction of certain words con- tained in the New Zealand Company's Act, 9 & 10 Vict. c. 882.

493

Hong Kong -

February 8, 1868

1505

478a

Trinidad

September 11, 1867

9285

An Ordinance for the appropriation of

casual revenues.

494

Canada

February 29, 1868

2244

479 Newfoundland

October 12, 1867

10,195

An Act providing for the constitution

of a Marine Court of Inquiry. (See No. 422.)

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Abduction of two British subjects from the Province of New Brunswick into

the territory of the United States.

Claim of Mr. Crooks, Consul for Lubock and Bremen, to be exempted from serving as assessor and juror.

"An Act to constitute in New Zealand, Court of Divorce and Matrimonial Causes."

"An Act to establish the county of "Westland, and to make temporary "provision for the government thereof,' and the power of the General Assembly to separate one part of a province from the rest, and to confer certain powers the Governor under the Act.

Alterations proposed to be made in the Hong Kong Ordinance, No. 9 of 1866, respecting piracy. (See No. 440.)

Question which has arisen with regard to the application of the 81st section of the Merchant Shipping Act, 17 & 18 Vict. c. 104.

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