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Subject.

Serial

No.

Colony.

Date.

Registry No.

Subject

INDEX.

1897.

113

Bahamas-

1896.

July 20

15299

Territorial Jurisdiction of Great Britain

over the Bahama Bank..

Serial

No.

Colony.

Registry No

114

South Africa -

July 27

15709

(South African

Treaty-making powers of the South African

Republic. (See Nos. 107 and 156.)

Republic.)

124

114A

General -

August 8

20823

115

Straits

August 12

17001

Interpretation of the Patents &c., Act of 18:3, as regards warlike stores manufac- tured or issued for use in the Colonies,

Proposed agreement with Kedah for the mutual extradition of labourers who have broken their contracts of service. (See No. 126.)

South Africa - (South African Republic.)

1897.

January 4

358

125

Ditto -

January 28

2173

126

Straits

February 3

116

Cyprus

September 3

19347

Proposed development and improvement of

the silk industry in Cyprus.

27 11

117

Western Australia -

October 21

21896

Mr. Wilkinson's Petition of Right. (See

Nos. 101 and 134.)

127

Western Australia -

February 8

3002

118

South Africa

October 21

21982

(South African

Aliens Expulsion Bill of the South African

Republic. (See No. 121.)

Republic.)

128

South Africa - (South African

February 8

3005

119

Norfolk Island--

October 31

22645

New South Wales.

Method of annexing Norfolk Island to New

South Wales. (See No. 123.)

Republic.)

129

Ditto-

119A

Western Australia -

October 31

1476 97

Establishment of a brauch of the Royal

Mint at Perth.

February 9

3114

•

120

Jamaica -

November 30

24827

Whether the Crown has a right to lay pipes along the foreshore of Kingston Harbour if such laying would interfere with the erection of wharves, &c., by the owner of the adjoining land.

130

Ditto-

February 9

3115

131

Newfoundland

March 1

4481

121

South Africa (South African

-

December 4

25007

Aliens Expulsion Act. (See No. 118.)

Republic.)

131A South Africa - (South African Republi:.)

March 1

7258

122

South Africa -

December 9

25323

Aliens Immigration Bill.

132

British Guiana

March 2

4618

(South African

Republic.)

1.23

Norfolk Island

December 10

25457

(New South Wales.)

Future administration of Norfolk Island.

(See No. 119.)

133

Sierra Leone

·

March 15

5477

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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Reference :-

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Press Law of the South African Republic; suppression of the "Critic," a newspaper published in Pretoria by Mr. Hess, a British subject. (See Nos. 128, 146, 155 and 160.)

Law of the South African Republic imposing

a tax on foreign transport riders.

Proposed extradition between the Straits and Kedah of fugitive coolie contract labourers. (See No. 115.)

Necessity of laying a certain Colonial Bill before the Imperial Parliament for thirty days before signifying Her Majesty's pleasure.

Suppression of the "Critic." (See Nos. 124,

146, 155 and 160.)

Removal by the Government of the Re- public of the Registry of Deeds, Swazi land, to Pretoria. (See No. 139.)

Removal of the offices of Orphan Master and State Attorney from Swaziland to Pretoria. Trial of the Directors of the Union and

Commercial Banks,

1

Aliens Immigration Law of the South African Republic; draft despatch to the Governor.

Venezuelan Boundary : Request of the Vene- zuelan Government to be allowed to make researches in the Colonial records at Demerara.

Validity of the bond given by the sureties of the late Colonial Postmaster. J. H. Spaine, who was convicted of forgery and embezzlement.

Petitions of Right by Mr. Wilkinson and the Western Australian Land Co. (See Nos. 101, 110 and 117.)

Dispute between the Executive and the Judiciary of the Republic as to the right of the judges to test laws or resolutions of the Volksraad by the Grondwet, or Con- stitution, of the Republic.

Dynamite monopoly in the Republic. Venezuelan Boundary: Proposal of the Vene- zuelan Government that, pending the award of the Arbitrators on the boundary question, no further occupation of territory should be permitted on either side.

131

Western Australia -

March 29

4:21

135

South Africa - (South African

April 2

7062

Republic.)

136

Ditto-

136A

British Guiana

April 13

April 13

7929

8542

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