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Serial No.
Colony.
Date.
Registry No.
15
St. Helens
June 27, 1884
Subject.
10,823 Liability of the sureties of Mr. W. H. Smyth, dismissed for defalcations, in respect of any default made by him when acting in any other capacity than that for which his sureties were bond.
12,195 Extradition from the jurisdiction of the Colony to that of the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific.
Serial No.
Colony.
Date.
Begistry No.
80 General
81
British Honduras
Nov. 1884
Nov. 25, 1884
20,138
20,964
Subject.
Extension of the Explosives Act of 1883.
Protest by Guatemala against the continued occupation by Great Britain of a certain portion of British Honduras which is claimed by Guatemala. (See No. 21.)
21,136 Manner of acquiring legal jurisdiction over
the Natives within the protected territory. 22,342 Observance of neutrality by Great Britain during the hostilities between France and China.
Mode of establishing civil and criminal juris- diction in Bechuanaland. (See No. 28.)
16
Queensland
July 17, 1884
32
New Guinea
Dec. 11, 1884
17
Straits.
18
Malta
Aug. 6, 1884
Aug. 7, 1884
13,367 Order in Council for the extradition of fugitive
criminals.
33
Hong Kong -
Dec. 22, 1884
13,452 Amendment of the constitution of the Council
of Government.
34
South Africa
Dec. 28, 1884
22,026
19
South Australia
Aug. 12, 1884
13,772 Question whether it is within the power of a Colonial Legislature which is empowered to regulate the sale and disposal of waste lands of the Crown to dispense with the Gover- nor's signature of instruments disposing of auch lands.
35
New South Wales
1885. Jan. 7, 1885.
413
1
36
20
20
Queensland
·
Aug. 12, 1884
13,806 Question whether British subjects who, being seamen on board vessels belonging to sub- jepts of foreign states, desert from such vessels could legally be surrendered to such foreign states. (See No. 14.)
20,964 Protest of Guatemala against the continued occupation by Great Britain of a certain portion of British Honduras which is claimed by Guatemala.
Hong Kong
Jan. 28, 1885
1947
Ceylou.
Straits,
37
Hong Kong -
Feb. 7, 1885
21
British Honduras
Aug. 12, 1884
22
General
23
Hong Kong -
Sept. 1884
Sept. 18, 1884
15,764 Provision and equipment of armed vessels by colonies possessing Responsible Government.
38
Do.
Feb. 16, 1885
38A Hong Kong -
Feb. 18.
1885.
24
General
Sept. 27, 1884
25
25
Hong Kong .
Sept. 27, 1884
258
Queensland
Oct. 28, 1884
16,750 Rendition to the Chinese Government of certain fugitives from justice whose ex- tradition is claimed under Article 21 of the Treaty of Tien-tsin.
16,714 Proposed insertion in the Colonial Courts of Admiralty Bill of a provision for vesting in the Colonial Courts of Admiralty juris- diction under the Foreign Enlistment Act. 16,962 Observance of neutrality by Great Britain during the hostilities between France and China.
18,356 Draft Order in Council applying the Fugitive Offenders Act, 1881, to the Western Pacific,
"An Act to regulate the making and posses
sion of explosive substances," and question whether the Colonial Legislature has not exceeded its power in treating acts done out of the Colony with intent to cause explosions in the Colony as crimes punish- able in the Colony,
26
Bahamas
Nov. 7, 1884
19,028
39
Straits
Mar. 7, 1885
Surrender to the French authorities of C. M.
H. Marcelin, accused of embezzlement.
Instructions to the Governors for their guid ance in enforcing the provisions of the Foreign Enlistment Act during the hostilities between France and China,
2212 Question whether Australian coal in British ships, consigned to other than Chinese merchants, would be jeopardised on a voyage to a Chinese treaty port in view of the decision of the French Government to exercise the right of search on the high
seas.
2869 Question whether vessels of the Messageries Maritimes and Chinese revenue cruisers 21617/92 Request of French Government that the export of arms and ammunitions of war from Hong Kong should be prohibited during the continu- ance of hostilities between France and China. 4066 Competency of the Colonial Legislature to pass an Ordinance providing for the de- tention in the gnols of the Colony of certain prisoners convicted in the Courts of the Protected States.
40 Barbados
Mar. 7, 1885
4067
40A
Ditto
2
April 2.
Ditto.
1895.
401
Ditto
April 16. 1885.
Ditto.
43
Barbados
`4 An Act to make valid the marriage of a man
with the sister of a deceased wife." Request of French Government that the export of arms and ammunitions of war from Hong Kong should be prohibited during the continu- ance of hostilities between France and China.
Ditto.
June 17, 1885
10,761
27
Gibraltar
Nov. 12, 1884
20,057 Action of the Governor in handing over to the Spanish Buthorities certain Spaniards who were arrested while endeavouring to smuggle tobacco into Spain.
41
New South Wales
June 23, 1885
45
Straits
28 South Africa
Nov. 15, 1884
19,495 Trial of the supposed murderers of Mr.
Bethell.
29
Malta
Nov, 18, 1884
19,735 Petition from George Jackson, a prisoner in Malta gaol, praying for a remission of the sentence passed upon him by Her Majesty's Consular Court at Tunis,
June 23, 1885
46
Jamaica
July 20, 1885
Bitto.
might come into operation in the Colony. "An Act to make valid the marriage of a man with the sister of a deceased wife." (See No. 40.)
11,076 Right of the mail steamers of the Messageries Maritimes to exemption from search by the Customs Officers of the Colony.
11,077 Extradition of fugitive offenders from the territory of the British North Borneo Company.
12,775 Proposed abolition in certain West Indian Colouies of the jurisdiction of the Com- missioners for the Sale of Encumbered Estates.
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