1850 1852 1853 1855 (July 15.) Approving additional instructions to the Governor respecting the application of the proceeds of land sales in New Zealand, and repealing so much of chapter 13 of Royal Instructions of 1846, as relates to certain demesne lands of the Crown in the Province of New Munster. (October 16.) Approving proclamation limiting the tender of silver coins. (June 13.) Approving additional instructions to the Governor, providing for the maintenance of the terms of purchase of land, and of pasturage licences. (March 31.) Assenting to a reserved Act of the Legislature to authorise the General Assembly to empower the Provincial Councils to enact laws regulating the sale of waste lands. ACTS OF THE IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT RELATING TO NEW ZEALAND. 1840 1846 1847 1848 1849 (August 7.) 3 & 4 Vict. cap. 62.-An Act to provide for the constitution of new Colonies within the existing limits of New South Wales. (August 3.) 9 & 10 Vict. cap. 42.-An Act to authorise a loan from the Consolidated Fund to the New Zealand Company. (Amended by 9 & 10 Vict. cap. 82.) (August 3.) 9 & 10 Vict. cap. 103.-An Act to make further provision for the Government of the New Zealand Islands. (July 23.) 10 & 11 Vict. cap. 112.-An Act to promote colonisation in New Zealand, and to authorise a loan to the New Zealand Company. (March 7.) 11 Vict. cap. 5.-An Act to suspend for five years the operation of 9 & 10 Vict. cap. 103, and to make other provisions in lieu thereof. (August 1.) 12 & 13 Vict. cap. 79.-An Act to facilitate the execution of conveyances and other in 1850 1851 1852 struments by or on behalf of the New Zealand Company in New Zealand. (August 14.) 13 & 14 Vict. cap. 70.-An Act empowering the Canterbury Association to dispose of certain lands in New Zealand. (August 7.) 14 & 15 Vict. cap. 84.-An Act to alter and amend 13 & 14 Vict. cap. 70, giving certain powers to the Canterbury Association. (August 7.) 14 & 15 Vict. cap. 86.-An Act to regulate the affairs of certain Settlements of the New Zealand Company. (June 30.) 15 & 16 Vict. cap. 72.—An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to New Zealand. (July 1.) 15 & 16 Vict. cap. 88.-An Act to remove doubts as to the constitution of Christchurch Bishopric, and to enable Her Majesty to subdivide the diocese of New Zealand. PARLIAMENTARY REPORTS, ACCOUNTS, AND PAPERS RELATING TO NEW ZEALAND. Sessional Year. Number. Parliamentary Reports, &c. Report from the Commons' Select Committee, with Appendix, containing statements of the Committees of the Church Missionary and the Wesleyan Missionary Societies, relative to the New Zealand Mission; also statement of schools, scholars, congregations, and communicants, in the Colony also list of ships despatched by the New Zealand Company since the date of its foundation; also survey of native lands. Return of lands sold by Government in the Colony of New Zealand, since these islands became a British Colony. Reports from the Commons' Select Committee, with minutes of evidence, and map of the Colony of New Zealand, with Appendix, containing correspondence relative to the finances of the New Zealand Company, and the titles to their lands, together with their assets and liabilities, receipts and expenditure, in their various Settlements; also relative to the aborigines, and proposals for Church extension by the Society for the propagation of the Gospel; also despatches reporting the claims of the Nanto-Bordelaise Company, to Banks's Peninsula. Despatches from Governor Fitzroy. Correspondence between the Colonial Office, and the New Zealand Company, on the constitution of the Colony. Returns of land claims. Awards of land claims of Commissioner Spain. Statistics of New Zealand. Population, trade, &c. Papers relative to the affairs of New Zealand. Papers relating to the surrender of their Charters by the New Zealand Company Correspondence between the Colonial CHAPTER VII. HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE SYSTEM OF TRANSPORTATION OF CRIMINALS TO THE BRITISH DEPENDENCIES. IT even the policy of is not intended here to discuss the vast question of Secondary Punishments, or Transportation as a system, but simply to give a brief sketch of the history of that system as it has hitherto affected the relations of the British Dependencies with the Parent State. Transportation is not an invention of this age or country. Great Britain has, in adopting that form of secondary punishment, only imitated the example of other countries in past and present times. The Greeks, for instance, banished offenders to the islands of the Ægean, the Romans to Sardinia, the Portuguese to Africa and South America. Spain now transports her criminals to Puerto Rico, Holland to Batavia, and France to Cayenne and Algiers.* The transportation of offenders from Great Britain was first authorised under the equivalent designation of "Banishment" by statute 39 Elizabeth, cap. 4, passed in the year 1597. By that Act, justices of the peace were empowered to banish "dangerous rogues and vagabonds," but no special place or country was named for their reception. The first * Convicts are also now transported from Bengal to Singapore, Tenasserim, and Arracan. |