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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