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Serial No.

Colony.

Date.

Registry

No.

166 Ceylon

Apr. 8, 1978

4362

167

Fiji -

Apr. 15, 1878

4735

168

Jamaica

May 2, 1878

5391

153

Canada

Nov. 16, 1877

14,613

Provision in a Colonial Act for the extradition of fugitive criminals, for the execution of existing treaties, and of any further treaties which Great Britain may conclufle with foreign powers.

169

Gibraltar

May 14, 1878

6636

154

Barbados

Nov. 24, 1877

14,008

Validity of writs issued by the Governor in Council for the election of members to serve in the Assembly.

170

Falklands

May 28, 1878

0682

155

Ditto

156

Turke Island

Dec. 6, 1877

Dec. 21, 1877

14,575

Ditto.

171

Canada

May 28, 1878

6683

52

Compensation by the Government of St. Do

mingo to Mr. Godet for the loss of his vessel the "Brisk," and reparation for the outrage committed on the British flag by the seizure of the vessel.

172

New Zealand

June 29, 1878

8209

157

Lagos

1878.

Jan. 1, 1878

85

Validity of the Lagos Ordinance No. 2 of

1867.

173

Canada

159

General

Jan. 15, 1878

670

Necessity of submitting to the Privy Council appointments of Legislative Councillors in cases where there is no express provision in the Royal Instructions that appointments by warrant under the Sign Manual are to be made with the advice of the Privy Council, and sufficiency for its purpose of the form of warrant submitted.

July 9, 1878

8491

174

Victoria

July 15, 1878

8796

Subject.

Approval of draft Letters Patent annexing the

Cocos or Keeling Islands to Ceylon. No. 141.)

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Validity of certaiu marriages solemnised in the islands prior to their erection into a British Colony.

Liability of the Governor to be sued personally in the courts of the Colony in the ordinary processes of law.

Proposed Order in Council for regulating the trade of Gibraltar, and checking the smuggling trade carried on between that port and the Spanish coast.

Legality of the detention of the "Star of India," and liability of the Governor in respect of such detention.

Inclusion within the boundaries of the Dominion of all those territories on the North American continent which, though taken possession of in the name of the Crown, have not been annexed to any Colony.

Propriety of submitting for the Royal assent an Act relating to wills and other testamentary instruments.

Power of the Governor-General in Council to call out the militia for the suppression of a local disturbance Dot amounting to an insurrection.

Correctness of the views entertained by the Colonial Ministry and Attorney-General as to the circumstances in which moneys in the Treasury were legally available for, and appli- cable to, the public service.

Difference of opinion amongst the Colonial authorities as to the proper method of pro- claiming and administering martial law.

Sufficioncy of a draft Bill to legalize marriages

contracted before the Cession.

Temporary appointments of officers to discharge

the duties of another office.

Determination as to what waters around the Rock should be deemed to be within the limits of the port.

Validity of a Bill assented to by the Goternor but which had not received the Royal

assent.

Necessity of Imperial legislation for the consti- tution of an appeal to the Privy Council from the decisions of the Supreme Court of Fiji. Power of the Colonial Bank to redeem its notce in Mexican or Spanish dollars after their de- monetisation, or in British token silver beyond the amout of 40s.

Judgment of the Chief Justice in the case of one Hunt, sentenced to one year's imprison- ment on a charge of conspiracy to murder, with reference to the question whether the court had jurisdic'ion to try the case.

159 Transvaal

Jan. 19, 1878

822

Sufficiency of a proposed Order in Council to confirm and validate the proclamation issued by Sir T. Shepstone for the establishment of a court of justice.

175

Cape

July 23, 1878

9272

176

160

Western Australia

Jan. 22, 1878

872

Propriety of submitting for the Royal Assent an amended Bill to legalize marriage with s deceased wife's sister.

Foji

177

St. Vincent

July 26, 1878

July 28, 1878

9370

12,145

161

South Australia

Jan. 23, 1878

938

Status in this country of children of paren is who, having an English domicile, enter, in a colony where marriage with a deceased wife's sister is legal, into such a marriage.

178

Gibraltar

Aug. 9, 1879

10,696

162

New South Wales

Feb. 9, 1878

1764

:

Propriety of submitting for Her Majesty's sanc- tion the Act to amend the law relating to divorce and matrimonial

causes. (See

179

Western Australis

Aug. 10, 1878

10,184

Nos. 147 and 150.)

103

Sierra Leone

Feb. 12, 1878

1901

164

Lagos

Mar. 27, 1878

4171

165

¡ Straits

Mar. 28, 1878

4880

Question raised by the Chief Justice as to whether the English Statute of Limitations 3 & 4 William 4. c. 27. was in force in the Colony, with reference to the proposed pur- chase by the Government of property from a Mr. Heddle with funds advanced from the Imperial Treasury.

Power of Her Majesty's Consul at Fernando Po to send a British subject to Lagos for trial on a charge of slave-dealing.

Power of Her Majesty to establish a law pro- viding for the surrender of fugitive criminals in the Straits Settlements.

180

Fiji

Aug. 12, 1878

10,225

181

West Indies –

Ang. 16, 1878

10,512

182

Fiji

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Aug. 28, 1878

11,109

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Serial No.

Colony.

Date.

Registry No.

183

Cape

Sept. 6, 1878

11,489

184

Cape

Sept. 9, 1878

11,638

184A

Cyprus

Sept. 10, 1878

1848

Ditto

Sept. 11, 1878

184c

Ditto

Sept. 12, 1878

185 Western Australia

Sept. 18, 1878

12,104

55

185A

Cyprus

Sept. 23, 1878

1858

Ditto

Nov. 11, 1878

186

Australia

Nov. 18, 1878

14,830

186▲ Cyprus

Dec. 4, 1878

186B

Ditto

Dec. 18, 1878

F

187

Malta

Dec. 19, 1878

16,434

188

New South Wales

1879.

Jan. 9, 1879

503

189

Jamaica

Jau. 24, 1879

1142

Bubject.

Sufficiency of a draft instrument granting to the High Commissioner the power to confer upon Imperial officers local rank, and to entitle them to bear such rank wherever they may be serving in South Africa.

Sufficiency of Letters Patent for the annexation of the Walfisch Bay territory under certain conditions.

Draft instruments constituting the office of High Commissioner, and providing for the government of the island.

Ditto.

Ditto.

Treatment of a Bill irregularly assented to by the Governor, and which should have been reserved for Her Majesty's assent as if it had been so reserved. (See No. 179.)

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Turkish capitulations with foreign countries as

affecting Cyprus,

Whether a native of Cyprus, accused of being concerned in the death of an Ottoman subject, who had been brought before the Consular Court of Alexandria, was amenable to the jurisdiction of that Court.

Occupation of the Chesterfield Islands by the

French.

Draft Ordinance empowering the High Com- missioner to prohibit persons whom he should believe to be dangerous to the peace and good order of the island from residing therein. Amended Ordinance for the expulsion of persons believed to be dangerous to the peace and good order of the island (see preceding report).

Extradition to the French Government of M. Lavonte, a Frenchman sentenced by the Cour d'Assises at Constantia in Algeria to 20 years hard labour.

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Decision pronounced in the county court at Neath in an action brought upon a contract entered into by Mr. Forster, the Agent- General of the Colony; and the question as to how far, and in what manner, Colonial Governments should be enabled to sue, and whether they should be made liable to be sued, in the courts of this country.

Regularity of the proceedings in the trial of Richard Baker, alias Bill Baker, and four other persons, who were convicted and sen- tenced to death for the murder of a man unknown.