960 APPENDIX TO BRITISH CASE. 



Majesty's Courts of Record at Westminster, within Two Years from 

 the Time of the Commission of such Offence. 



XIV. And Whereas, by an Act passed in the Fifty first Year of 

 the Reign of His said Majesty King George the Third, the Governor 

 of the Island of Newfoundland is empowered to dispose of certain 

 Places in the Harbour of Saint John in the said Island, called u Fish- 

 ing Ships' Rooms," as therein particularly described : And Whereas 

 it is expedient that all other Fishing Ships' Rooms in Newfoundland 

 should be disposed of in like Manner; " Be it further enacted, That 

 the Governor of Newfoundland for the Time being shall have Power, 

 and he is hereby authorized to sell, lease or dispose of all such Places 

 within the said Island of Newfoundland, commonly called " Ship's 

 Rooms," as may no.t be already disposed of under and by virtue of 

 the said last mentioned Act, to be held in the same Manner as other 

 Property in Newfoundland,' provided however, that nothing herein 

 contained shall extend or be construed to the Prejudice of any private 

 Right of any Person whatever. 



XV. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful 

 for His Majesty. His Heirs and Successors, to grant to any Persons 

 or Person any waste and unoccupied Lands situate and being within 

 the said Colony, and which have not hitherto been granted by His 

 Majesty, or any of His Royal Predecessors, to any Persons or Person; 

 any Thing in any Charter granted by any of His Majesty's Royal 

 Predecessors, or in any Act of Parliament, to the contrary contained 



in any wise notwithstanding. 

 570 XVI. And be it further enacted, That all Penalties hereby 



imposed shall and may be sued for and recovered in any of 

 His Majesty's Courts of Record in the said Colony of Newfoundland, 

 or its Dependencies, and shall go and be applied, One Half to the 

 Benefit of any Person who may sue or inform for the same, and the 

 other Half to His Majesty, for and towards the Support of the 

 Government of the said Colony. 



XVII. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall continue and 

 be in force for Five Years, and from thence until the End of the then 

 next Session of Parliament. 



No. 30. 1830, November 5: Order in Council, for Regulating the 

 Commercial Intercourse between the United States and the British 

 Colonial Possessions. 



At the Court of St. James's, the 5th day of November, 1830, 



Present, The King's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. 



Whereas by a certain Act of Parliament, passed in the 6th year 

 of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, entitled, 

 "An Act to regulate the trade of the British Possessions abroad," 

 after reciting that, " by the law of navigation, foreign ships are 

 permitted to import into any of the British possessions abroad, from 

 the countries to which they belong, goods, the produce of those 

 countries, and to export goods from such possessions, to be carried 

 to any foreign country whatever, and that it is expedient that such 

 permission should be subject to certain conditions;" it is, there- 



