(all of which are herein-after called the Dependencies); and Powers and Legislation. We do hereby vest in him all such powers of government and legislation in and over the Dependencies as are from time to time vested in Our said Governor in and over Our Colony of the Falkland Islands, subject, nevertheless, to any instructions which may from time to time be hereafter given him under Our Sign Manual and Signet, or through one of Our Principal Secretaries of State, and to such laws as are now or shall hereafter be in force in the said Dependencies. III. In the event of the death or incapacity of the Governor, Temporary or in the event of his absence from Our Colony of the Falk- administration during land Islands otherwise than for the purpose of visiting the Governor's Dependencies, the Officer for the time being Administering absence. the Government of Our said Colony shall be Governor for the time being of the Dependencies. Council. IV. There shall be an Executive Council for the Depen- Executive dencies, and the said Council shall consist of such persons as shall from time to time constitute the Executive Council of Our Colony of the Falkland Islands; and the said Council shall exercise the same functions in regard to all matters arising in connexion with the Dependencies as are exercised by the Executive Council of Our Colony of the Falkland Islands in regard to matters arising in connexion with Our said Colony. V. It shall be, and shall be deemed always to have been, Legislation. competent for the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council of Our Colony of the Falkland Islands, to make laws for the peace, order, and good government of the Dependencies. to make grants of VI. The Governor is and shall be deemed always to have Governor been, authorised and empowered to make and execute, in Our empowered name and on Our behalf, grants and dispositions of any Lands which may lawfully be granted or disposed of by Us within Lands. the Dependencies, either in conformity with Instructions under Our Sign Manual and Signet, or through one of Our Principal Secretaries of State, or in conformity with such laws as may from time to time be in force in the Dependencies. VII. We do hereby reserve to Us, Our Heirs and Successors, full power and authority from time to time to revoke, alter, or amend these Our Letters Patent as to Us or Them shall seem meet. Power reserved to His Majesty to revoke, alter, or amend present Letter's Patent. VIII. The Governor shall cause these Our Letters Patent to Publication be published in the Government Gazette of Our Colony of the in Gazette. Falkland Islands, and the same shall thereupon come into force. In Witness whereof We have caused these Our Letters to be made Patent. Witness Ourself at Westminster, this Twenty-first day of July, in the Eighth year of Our Reign. By Warrant under the King's Sign Manual. Muir Mackenzie. Executive Provisional appointments. MALTA. LETTERS PATENT, DATED FEBRUARY 10, 1908, PASSED UNDER Whereas by certain Letters Patent, passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, bearing date at Westminster the Third day of June 1903,† provision was made for the administration of the Government of Our Island of Malta and its Dependencies (hereinafter called the Island): And whereas by Clause 55 of the aforesaid Letters Patent We have ordained that there shall be in and for the Island an Executive Council constituted as therein set forth: And whereas by certain other Letters Patent passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, bearing date at Westminster the Eighteenth day of June 1907, We did amend the said Clause 55 of the aforesaid Letters Patent of the Third day of June 1903; And whereas We are minded to provide for the provisional appointment of Members of the Executive Council of the Island: Now know ye that We hereby declare Our will and pleasure and direct and ordain as follows: - I. Whenever any Member, other than an ex officio Member. of the Executive Council of the Island shall by writing under his hand resign his seat in the Council, or shall die, or be * These Letters Patent were published in the Falkland Islands Gazette of September 1, 1908. + Printed St. R. & O., Rev., 1904, "Malta," pp. 1-14. suspended from the exercise of his functions as a Member of the Council, or be declared by the Governor by an Instrument under the Public Seal of the Island to be incapable of exercising his functions as a Member of the Council, or be absent from the Island, or shall be acting in an office the holder of which is an ex officio Member of the Council, the Governor may, by an Instrument under the Public Seal of the Island, appoint some person to be provisionally a Member of the Council in the place of the Member so resigning or dying, or being suspended or declared incapable, or being absent, or sitting as an ex officio Member. Such person shall forthwith cease to be a Member of the Council if his appointment is disallowed by Us, or if the Member in whose place he was appointed shall be released from suspension, or, as the case may be, shall be declared by the Governor capable of again discharging his functions in the Council, or shall return to the Island, or shall cease to sit in the Council as an ex officio Member. ments to be II. The Governor shall without delay report to Us, for Our Provisional confirmation or disallowance, through one of Our Principal appointSecretaries of State, every provisional appointment of any immediately person as a Member of the Executive Council. Every such reported. person shall hold his place in the Council during Our pleasure, and the Governor may by an Instrument under the Public Seal of the Island revoke any such appointment. any 64 Governor defined. III. In these Our Letters Patent the term "Governor" Term shall, unless the context otherwise requires include person for the time being lawfully administering the Government of the Island. IV. And We do hereby reserve to Ourselves, Our heirs and successors, full power and authority from time to time to revoke, alter, or amend these Our Letters Patent as to Us Them shall seem meet. or V. And We do further direct and enjoin that these Our Letters Patent shall be proclaimed at such place or places within the Island as the Governor shall think fit.* In witness whereof we have caused these Our Letters to By Warrant under the King's Sign Manual. Muir Mackenzie. * These Letters Patent were published in the Malta Gazette of March 6, 1908. Power reserved to His revoke, alter, Majesty to or amend the present Letters Patent. Publication of Letters Patent. II.-COLONIAL CURRENCY. (a.) Southern Nigeria. THE NIGERIA COINAGE ORDER, 1908. 1908. No. 852. [This Order, which also regulates the currency of the Protectorates of Northern and Southern Nigeria and was, so far as regards those Protectorates, made under the Foreign Jurisdiction Act, is, with other Statutory Orders affecting the coinage of Colonies and Protectorates, printed above under the title "Coin, Colonies and Protectorates."]. (b.) Straits Settlements. THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS (COINAGE) ORDER, 1908. 1908. No. 634. [This Order is printed above under the title "Coin, Colonies and Protectorates."] (c.) West India Colonies and British Guiana. ORDER IN COUNCIL APPROVING PROCLAMATION DIRECTING THAT THE DOUBLOON SHALL CEASE TO BE LEGAL TENDER IN THE WEST INDIA COLONIES AND BRITISH GUIANA. 1908. No. 463. [This Order is printed above under the title "Coin, Colonies and Protectorates."] [II. — APPEALS TO HIS MAJESTY IN COUNCIL FROM BRITISH POSSESSIONS AND PROTECTORATES. Brunei Protectorate. ORDER IN COUNCIL PROVIDING FOR APPEALS TO HIS MAJESTY IN COUNCIL FROM THE COURT OF APPEAL IN THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS WHEN ACTING AS A COURT OF APPEAL FROM COURTS IN BRUNEI. At the Court at Balmoral, the 26th day of September, 1908. PRESENT, The King's Most Excellent Majesty His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales His Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught and Strathearn Secretary Sir Edward Grey Sir Dighton Probyn. Whereas it is expedient to make provision for appeals to His Majesty in Council from the Court of Appeal in the Straits Settlements when acting as a Court of Appeal from the Courts having jurisdiction in the State of Brunei under the provisions of an enactment of the said State entitled "The Courts Enactment, 1908." Now, therefore, it is ordered by the King's Most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice of His Privy Council, as follows: It shall and may be lawful for any person or persons being a party or parties to any civil suit or action commenced in any Court having Jurisdiction in the State of Brunei from which an appeal has been heard and determined by the Court of Appeal in the Straits Settlements to appeal to His Majesty in His Privy Council against any final judgment decree or order of the said Court of Appeal given or made upon such appeal subject to the same rules, conditions, and limitations and subject to the same procedure in all respects as may from time to time be applicable to Appeals to His Majesty in Council from the said Court of Appeal in respect of civil suits or actions commenced in the Courts of the Straits Settlements. And the Right Honourable the Earl of Crewe, K.G., one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, is to give the necessary directions herein accordingly. A. W. FitzRoy. |
