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Berial No.

Colony.

Date,

Registry No.

Subject.

Serial No.

Colony,

Date.

Registry

No.

261

Western Pacific

July 14, 1881

12,688

Competency of the High Commissioner to make rules conferring certain legal powers on naval officers in the Western Pacific.

277

General

"

May 16, 1882

8959

262

Labuan

July 14, 1881

12.18 1851

18,549

12206

262A Gold Const

Draft Charter for incorporating an association formed for the purposes of developing the northern part of the island of Bornan, to ha

July 20, 1881 12009/92| Jurisdiction of the Board of Trade over foreign vessels under the Merchant Shipping Act of 1854.

Dy UHU 17. P. Jong.

278

Straits-

Aug. 21, 1882

14,898

279

Gibraltar

Aug.

- 1882

16,174

Subject.

Proposed legislation for the purpose of revising the procedure and scales of fees in the Vice- Admiralty Courts in the Colonies.

Payment of the expenses of the prosecution of s native of Manila, named Perman, at Singapore, for murder on the high seas.

Criminal jurisdiction of the Civil Court of Gibraltar over members of the garrison, and the power of the Governor to prevent the exercise of such jurisdiction if it existed.

10765/1885 Confinement of the three British engineers of the Spanish steamer "Leon XIII." on board that vessel during her stay in Aden Harbour from December 1881 to February 1882.

234A

265

Transvaal

Aug-21,-100$ | 34,549-

Aug. 26, 1881

Manner of grating_mining losses.

279A

Aden

Sept. 21, 1882

15,373

Possible revival, after the ratification of the Pretoria Convention, of the treaties and con- tracts made with foreign powers by the former South African Republic.

280

General

Oct. 24. IRRO

12 A26

26.5A Transvaal

Sept. 15, 1881

16,548

Question whether the treaties existing between the South African Republic and foreign Powers at the time of its annexation Great Britain were actually extinguished by the Act of Annexation.

280*

British Honduras

Nov. 4,

1882.

to

266

Cyprus

Sept. 19, 1881

16,670 Necessity of legislation by Order in Council to enable the Colony to take cognizance of the Army Discipline and Regulation Act, 1879. Power to arrest Williams and his wife, who were concerned in the murder of a slave girl at Onitsha, and to send them to Sierra Leone for trial.

267

Sierra Leone

Oct. 18, 1881

18,447

7

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10426/93| Governor's action in surrendering to the captain of

the Spanish man-of-war, "Don Jorge Juan," deserter from that ship.

281

Trinidad

Dec. 2, 1882

20,929

282

Gibraltar

Dec. 5, 1882

550

―ng ward Avaureo vi mio Jumbler vi que opani80

steamer "Leon XIII." at Singapore.

Power of the Governor under the 82nd section of the Trinidad Customs Ordinance, 1880, to prohibit the exportation of arms, &c. to a particular country or place, or to except from such prohibition arms, &c. exported for the use of the Government of the country to which exportation is prohibited.

Expulsion from Gibraltar of three Cuban refugees,

Castillo, Rodriguez, and Maceo.

10765/1885 Whether Her Majesty's Government would be justifled in preferring a claim for compensation against the Spanish Government on behalf of the three British engineers of the "Leon XIII."

1882.

268

General

Jan. 12, 1882

877

Jurisdiction and practice of the Vice-Admiralty

Courts in the Colonies.

282A

Straits

Dec. 8, 1882

269

Newfoundland

Jan. 14, 1882

952

Draft form of land grant, in connexion with the

Fisheries question.

270

General (Victoria)

-

Jan. 14, 1882

5264

Powers of Colonial Shipping Courts in regard to inquiries into shipping disasters in the Colonies.

271

General

Jan. 14, 1882

1581

Wording of the "Most favoured nation" article in future treaties of commerce and navigation with foreign powers.

283 Gibraltar

1883.

Jan. 1, 1883

550

271A

General

Jan. 23, 1882

3011

Question whether the requirement in section 242, subsection 5, of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, as to the confirmation of a report by the Governor of a British possession has now any legal effect.

284 Jamaica

Jan. 11, 1883

583

272

Sierra Leone

Jan. 28, 1882

2327

Difficulties in the way of bringing to trial the persona accused of the murder of a black girl at Onitsha.

285

Leeward Islands

Jan. 18, 1883

1077

273 Newfoundland

274

Cape

Feb. 3, 1882

Mar., 1882

2143

3848

Sufficiency of a draft land grant.

286

Canada

Jan. 22, 1893

1366

Effect of Cetywayo's removal from the Colony (for the purpose of visiting England) on the Act authorising his detention, and his actual status after such removal,

287

General

275

Hong Kong -

Mar. 11, 1882

4878

Practice

Chinese parents of giving a son among or daughter into the possession and control of another person in exchange for a sum of money, and the question whether such children thereby became slaves.

Jan. 29, 1883

1685

288

Trinidad -

Jan.-, 1883

2016

276 Natal

Apr. 29, 1882

7689

Claim of Sir H. L. Phillips, late Puisne Judge

of the Colony, to a pension.

Question whether the error of the British officials in surrendering the Cuban refugees was due to any suppression of the facts on the part of the Spanish Consul.

Effective constitution of the Legislative Council for the despatch of business in consequence of the resignation of the unofficial members.

Eligibility of persons holding offices of emolu- ment under the Crown for appointment as "unofficial" members of the General Legisla- tive Council.

Memorial from the Presbyterian Church of Canada praying for the disallowance of certain Acta affecting the funds and temporalities of that Church.

Proposed amendment of the Colonial Attornies

Relief Act.

Landing of a party from an armed Venezuelan vessel on Patos or Goose Island, and the ab- duction from thence of certain Venezuelan fugitives.

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