under "The New Provinces Act, 1858" (validated by 25 and 26 Viet. c. 48).(1)

(N.B.-A synopsis of the Ordinances of different Provinces, on subjects of general interest, will be found at the close of this Appendix.)

IMPERIAL ACTS APPLICABLE IN WHOLE OR IN PART TO COLONIES

(1) The legislative power of Provincial Councils is derived from the Constitution Act (15 and 16 Vict. c. 72, s. 18), which provides that "it shall be lawful for the Superintendent of each Province, with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof, to make and ordain all such laws and ordinances (except and subject as hereinafter mentioned) as may be required for the peace, order, and good government of such Province, provided that the same be not repugnant to the law of England." (For meaning of the last words, vide note (1), ante p. 2.) The 19th section, which cannot be altered by the General Assembly except by an Act reserved for the Queen's assent (20 and 21 Vict. c. 53, s. 2), enacts that it shall not be lawful for Provincial Councils to make laws for any one of thirteen different purposes therein mentioned; and, moreover, the 53rd section of the Constitution Act, under which the General Assembly obtained its power of legislation, after the words cited in note (1), ante p. 2, goes on to say, "The laws so to be made by the said General Assembly shall control and supersede any laws or Ordinances in any wise repugnant thereto which may have been made or ordained prior thereto by any Provincial Council: And any law or Ordinance made or ordained by any Provincial Council in pursuance of the authority hereby conferred upon it, and on any subject whereon, under such authority as aforesaid, it is entitled to legislate, shall, so far as the same is repugnant to or inconsistent with any Act passed by the General Assembly, be null and void."

IMPERIAL ACTS AFFECTING NEW ZEALAND SPECIALLY. (1)

9 & 10 Vict. c. 42

9 & 10 Vict. c. 103(*)

An Act to authorize a Loan from the Consolidated
Fund to the New Zealand Company.

An Act to make further provision for the govern-
ment of the New Zealand Islands ;-so much as is
not repealed by the Constitution Act, 15 & 16 Vict.
c. 72.

10 & 11 Vict. c. 112... An Act to promote Colonization in New Zealand, and authorize a Loan to the New Zealand Company.

(1) By the 3 & 4 Vict. c. 62, Her Majesty was empowered by Letters Patent to erect into a separate Colony any of the Islands then within the dependencies of the Colony of New South Wales (which included the Islands of New Zealand), and to appoint a Legislative Council for such Colony, to make laws in conformity with Royal Instructions.

A Charter erecting New Zealand into a Colony was accordingly issued in 1840, along with Royal Instructions.

In 1842 a Proclamation was issued of Letters Patent revoking the Charter of 1840 as regarded the boundaries of the Colony, and substituting others.

(2) Under this Act (passed 28th August, 1846), a Charter (23rd December, 1846), and the elaborate Royal Instructions of 1846, were issued. There were additional Royal Instructions in 1847, 1848, 1849, February 1850, and August 1850.

ENGLISH ACTS PASSED SINCE 14TH JANUARY, 1840, ADOPTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF NEW ZEALAND, BY REFERENCE.(1)

(1) Several Acts adopted from time to time, which have been expressly or virtually repealed since their adoption, are omitted from this list.

17 & 18 Vict. c. 113... Administration of Estates of "English Acts Act,