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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 5TH DECEMBER, 1863.

Where Right of Search may be exer- cised.

Additional Article to

&c. as the Treaty.

potentiaries have signed the same, and have thereunto affixed the Seal of their Arms, Done at Washington the Seventeenth Day of February in the Year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.

(L.S.)

LYONS.

(L.S.) WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

And whereas Ratifications were exchanged at London on the First Day of April One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three: And whereas it is expedient that Provision should be made for giving Effect to the present additional Article: Be it therefore en- acted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows:

1. The reciprocal Right of Search and Detention as defined in the First Article of the said Treaty may be exercised also within Thirty Leagues of the Island of Madagascar, within Thirty Leagues of the Island of Puerto Rico, and within Thirty Leagues of the Island of San Domingo.

2. The present additional Article shall have the same Force and Validity as if it have the same Force, had been inserted in the Treaty concluded between the Two High Contracting Parties on the Seventh of April One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, and shall have the same Duration as that Treaty.

This and Acts of 1862 to be read as One.

Short Title.

As to Terms "Colo- nial Legislature" and "Governor."

Confirmation of cer-

Legislatures.

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3. This Act and the African Slave Trade Treaty Acts, Nos. 1 and 2, 1862, shall be read and construed as One Act.

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4. This Act may for all Purposes be cited as the "African Slave Trade Treaty Act, 1863."

ANNO VICESIMO SEXTO & VICESIMO SEPTIMO VICTORIÆ REGINÆ.

CAP. LXXXIV.

An Act to confirm certain Acts of Colonial Legislatures.

[28th July 1863.]

Whereas Doubts are entertained respecting the Validity of divers Acts passed by the Legislature of South Australia for the Purpose of altering the Constitution of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly of the said Colony, and respecting the Power of Colonial Legislatures to make Laws for the above Purpose; and it is expedient to remove such Doubts: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows:

1. In this Act of Parliament the Term "Colonial Legislature" shall mean the Authority (other than Her Majesty in Council) competent to make Laws for any of Her Majesty's Possessions abroad, except India, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man:

The Term "Governor" shall mean the Officer lawfully administering the Govern- ment of any Colony.

Colonial

2. All Laws heretofore passed or purporting to have been passed by any tain Acts of Colonial Legislature with the Object of declaring or altering the Constitution of such Legislature, or of any Branch thereof, or the Mode of appointing or electing the Members of the same, shall have and be deemed to have had, from the Date at which the same shall have received the Assent of Her Majesty or of the Governor of the Colony on behalf of Her Majesty, the same Force and Effect for all Purposes whatever as if the said Legis- lature had possessed full Powers of enacting Laws for the Objects aforesaid, and as if all Formalities and Conditions by Act of Parliament or otherwise prescribed in respect of the passing of such Laws had been duly observed.