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There is no such inference, and we think that 28 & 29 Vict. o. 63. a. 5. remains in force, and that the General Assembly of New Zealand have the power which Mr. Stafford apprehends has been inadvertently taken away.

The Right Hon. the Earl Granville, K.G.

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We have, &c. (Signed)

3265.

R. P. COLLIER. J. D. COLERIDGE.

SIE,

No. 556.

(BAHAMAS.)

FOREIGN OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE.

Foreign Office, March 22, 1869.

WITH reference to your letters of the 14th of January and 4th instant, on the subject of the territorial jurisdiction of Spain off the coast of Cuba and its adjacent cays, I am directed by the Earl of Clarendon to request that you will* inform Earl Granville that, after communication with the law advisers of the Crown, his Lordship is of opinion that the cays on the north coast of Cuba, as laid down in the Admiralty chart of 1858, a copy of which accompanied your letter of the 4th instant, come within the principle laid down by Lord Stowell in the case of the "Anna" (5 ch. Robinson, p. 385), and that the Spanish right of jurisdiction extends to a distance of a marine league seawards from those cays, and over all the banks which may be inclosed within those cays and the mainland of Cuba.

As regards any other cays off the coast of Cuba than those above alluded to, Lord Clarendon considers it unnecessary, until an occasion for doing so should arise, to

express any opinion.

The Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office.

I am, &c. (Signed)

E. HAMMOND.

0 16978.-2944. 25.-5/86.

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