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Serial

No.

Colony.

Date.

Registry No.

17

Straits

May 1, 1874

4862

1

18

British Honduras

May 4, 1874

5025

18

Gold Coast

May 7, 1874

5136

Subject.

Proposed extension of the jurisdiction of the criminal courts with a view to check crimes and offences committed in neighbouring territories.

Draft Ordinance to amend and declare the

marriage law in British Honduras.

Power of Her Majesty to separate, without fresh legislation, the Settlements of Gold Coast and Lagos from the General West Africa Settle- ments, and to reconstitute one Legislative Council for the new Colony.

Serial No.

Colony.

Date.

Registry No.

34

Maits

July 30, 1874

8795

35

35

Gibraltar

Aug. 12, 1874

9909

333

Ditto

Aug. 14, 1874

9612

20

Canada

May 11, 1874

5394

Legality of the position of the Governor-General as visitor of the McGill University in Montreal.

37

New South Wales

Aug. 14, 1874

9618

21

Ditto

May 14, 1874

5509

Objections to the Canadian Extradition Act of

1873.

"

38

Gibraltar

22

Malta

May 16, 1874

5878

Application by the Italian Consul at Malts for the extradition of an Italian subject named Mendotis accused of having committed homicide in 1864.

Sept. 8, 1874

10,562

39

Malta

23

General

May 21, 1874

(Extract.)

6386

24

Canada

May 29, 1874

5717

Extension of the Seamen Deserters Act, 1852, to Her Majesty's "dominions,” as distinguished from the United Kingdom, in the proposed Consular Convention with the United States. Advisability of giving the Royal Assent to the Bill "to amend the Act respecting Copy- right."

40 Tasmania

Sept. 25, 1874

Oct. 14, 1874

1518

11,998

40A

Canada

Oct. 14, 1874

12,681

41

Hong Kong

Nov. 2, 1874

12,927

25

Sierra Leone

26

Canada

June 15, 1874

June 28, 1874

6828

7291

Trial of Susan and Samuel Reffies for murder.

27

Ditto

June 24, 1874

7291

Wording of a draft Reciprocity Treaty, sub- mitted to the United States Government by Sir E. Thornton and Mr. Brown of Canada. Amendment of the draft Treaty of Reciprocity

with the United States Government.

42

Natal

Nov, 12, 1874

13,023

43

Tobago

Nov. 16, 1874

13,200

28

Gold Coast

June 24, 1874

7136

29

Natal

June 24, 1874

7137

Observations on a draft Order in Council to enable the Legislature of the Gold Coast Colony to legislate for the neighbouring terri- tories wherein Her Majesty has power and jurisdiction by treaty.

An Act passed by the Legislature of Natal for the indemnification of certain persons for acts done during the existence of martial law, and for the suppression of rebellion.

44

Natal

Nov. 27, 1874

13,624

44A

Buenos Ayres -

Dec. 14, 1874

Dec. 18, 1874

14,612

Subject.

on

the

Steps to be taken to bring from Hong Kong and Melbourne, for trial in this country, persons charged with having committed a inutiny on board the British ship "Satsuma " high seas, on the 29th January 1874. Rights or privileges conferred upon an alien in a British Colony by a certificate of naturaliza- tion. Mistaken recital in the preamble of the Sanitary Order in Council, 1874, caused by the failure to deposit in the registry of the Supreme Court the plans, books of reference, &c. referred to in such preamble,

Proceedings and judgment in the case of R. v. the cargo ez "Aurora," and the construction put upon the Kidnapping Act, 1872, by the judge of the Vice Admiralty Court at Sydney.

Validity and effect of Letters Patent of 15th November 1873 revoking other Letters Patent of 21st August 1842 constituting the bishopric of Gibraltar.

Refusal of the Maltese Government to extradite

an Italian accused of homicide în 1864. Sufficiency of a draft Order in Council to remedy a defect in the criminal law of the Colony.

Loan raised for the construction of the Can- adian Pacific Railway and the method of its expenditure. (See No. 30a.)

Execution at Shanghai of a warrant issued at Hong Kong for the arrest of a sailor named Walter Jackson.

Legality of the imprisonment, within the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, of Langalibulele and his son.

Irregularity in bringing into operation an "Act "to amend and simplify the Legislature of "Tobago," and the course to be pursued to render the elections to the Legislative Assembly valid.

Legality of certain courses which had been sug- gested with a view to mitigating the sentence of Langalibalele.

10765; 1885 Interference of the local courts in regard to a dispute as to the wages due to a scamau of

& French ship by the master.

Pension to be granted to Mr. E. J. Eyre,

formerly Governor of Jamaica.

a 3

Power of Her Majesty to alter or amend the

Charter of Government.

Commissions held by Sir J. P. Grant, Sir H. Storks, and Mr. Eyre during the disturbances in Jamaica.

Power of the General Assembly of New Zealand to abolish the provincial form of government in the North Island,

Right of the official members of the Legislative Council to vote on the Bili "to declare and Rmend the Constitution of Natal." Delegation to the Governor of the power to revest the property, and right to sue on the contracts, of George Rennie, a pardoned felon.

45

Guneral

20

Newfoundland

June 25, 1874

7198

Power of the Colonial Government to buy out the whole interest of the New York, New- foundland, and London Telegraph Company.

'80A

Canada

July 4, 1874

7778

Loan raised for the construction of the Can- adian Pacific Railway and the method of its expenditure.

16

Natal

1875.

Jan, 14, 1875

506

81

Cape

July 14, 1874

8017

32

Malta

July

-1874

8169

33

Natal

July 29, 1874

9166

An Act passed by the Legislature of Griqualand West, repealing three proclamations which recited that the titles to certain farms were not subject to a reservation of minerals and precious stones in favour of the Crown, and which Act is now protested against by the proprietors of these farins as prejudicial to their title and a breach of faith.

Prosecution of persons passing through Malta

having slaves in their possession.

Alleged attempt by the Portuguese authorities to purchase the island of Inyack from King Nosungala.

47

General (Jamaica)

Jan, 20, 1875

827

48

New Zealand

Feb. 5, 1875

1378

49

Natal

Feb. 11, 1875

1585

30

80

New Zealand

Feb. 22, 1875

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