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Berial

Colony.

No.

Date.

Registry No.

Bubject.

Serial No.

Colony.

Date.

Registry No.

261

Western Pacific

July 14, 1881

12,588

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

2621

263 Sierra Leone

18,549

12206

July 14, 1881 July 18 1881. Definition briciol willy when the Aug. 11, 1881 16,602

Murder of a slave girl at Onitsha, on the Niger,

by one W. F. John.

Draft Charter for incorporating an association formed for the purposes of developing the northern part of the island of Borneo, to be granted to Mr. Alfred Dent, of the firm of Dent Brothers and Co. of London. by hand Chanceller

278

Straits-

Aug. 21, 1882

14.898

234A

265

Transvaal

Aug-217-1004 || 14,549

Aug. 26, 1881

Manner of granting mining losses.

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.

279A

Aden.

Sept. 21, 1882

280

General

Oct. 24, 1882

18,636

280A Straits -

Nov. 11, 1882

Subject.

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

UL ne 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.

Draft Prisoners' Removal Bill.

10765/1885 Draft instruction to Her Majesty's Minister at

Madrid on the subject of the arrest, imprison ment, and release of the master of the Spanish 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 justified in preferring a claim for compensation against the Spanish Government on behalf of the three British engineers of the "Leon XIIL"

the Act of Annexation.

266

Cyprus

Sept. 19, 1881

16,670

267

Sierra Leone

Oct. 18, 1881

18,447

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.

281

Trinidad

Dec. 2, 1882

20,929

282

Gibraltar

Dec. 5, 1882

550

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

271

General -

Jan. 14, 1882

1581

271A General

Jan. 23, 1882

3011

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

P

article Wording of the "Most favoured nation'

in future treaties of commerce and navigation with foreign powers.

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.

283 Gibraltar

1883.

Jan. 1, 1883

550

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. 8, 1882

Mar.-, 1882

2143

3848

Sufficiency of a draft land grant.

286

Canada

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.

Jan. 22, 1883

1366

287

General

275

Hong Kong -

Mar. 11, 1882

4378

Jan. 29, 1888

1685

276

Natal -

Apr. 29, 1882

7689

Practice among Chinese parents of giving a son 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.

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

of the Colony, to a pension.

288 Trinidad

Jan.-, 1883

2015

c 4*

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 Conncil.

Memorial from the Presbyterian Church of Canada praying for the disallowance of certain Acts 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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Serial No.

Colony.

Date.

Registry No.

289

Canada

Feb. 3, 1888

2021

290

Western Australia

-

Feb. 23, 1883

9287

291

Heligoland

Feb. 27, 1883

3423

292

Ditto

Mar. 3, 1883

3843

293

Cyprus

Apr. 10, 1883

6035

294

Queensland

-

Apr. 10, 1883

6036

295 Grenada

+

May 24, 1883

8853

Subject.