la connaissance lui est réservée par les règlements, ou sur lesquelles il est consulté par le Gouverneur. Les séances du Conseil Général ne sont pas publiques. XIV. Il est pourvu, dans les 3 colonies, par des crédits ouverts au budget général de la métropole, aux dépenses de Gouvernement et de protection concernant les matières ci après, savoir :-Gouvernement, Administration Générale, Justice, Culte, Subventions à l'Instruction Publique, Travaux et Service des Ports, Agents Divers, Dépenses d'intérêt Commun, et généralement les dépenses dans lesquelles l'Etat aura un intérêt direct. Toutes autres dépenses demeurent à la charge des colonies. Ces dépenses sont obligatoires ou facultatives, suivant une nomenclature fixée par un décret de l'Empereur. XV. Les colonies dont les ressources contributives seront reconnues supérieures à leurs dépenses locales pourront être tenues de fournir un contingent au Trésor public. Les colonies dont les ressources contributives seront reconnues insuffisantes pour subvenir à leurs dépenses locales pourront recevoir une subvention sur le budget de l'Etat. La loi annuelle des finances réglera la quotité du contingent imposable à chaque colonie, ou, s'il y a lieu la quotité de la subvention accordéo. XVI. Les budgets et les tarifs des taxes locales, arrêtés par le Conseil Général, ne sont valables qu'après avoir été approuvés par les Gouverneurs, qui sont autorisés à y introduire d'office les dépenses obligatoires auxquelles le Conseil Général aurait négligé de pourvoir, à réduire les dépenses facultatives, à interdire la perception des taxes excessives ou contraires à l'intérêt général de la colonie, et à assurer, par des ressources suffisantes, l'acquittement des dépenses obligatoires et spécialement du contingent à fournir, s'il y a lieu, à la métropole. Le mode d'assiette et les règles de perception seront déterminés par des règlements d'administration publique. XVII. Un Comité Consultatif est établi près du Ministre de la Marine et des Colonies. Il se compose, 1° de 4 membres nommés par l'Empereur; 2° d'un délégué de chacune des 3 colonies choisi par le Conseil Général. Les délégués ne peuvent être choisis parmi les membres du Sénat, du Corps Législatif et du Conseil d'Etat, ni parmi les personnes revêtues de fonctions rétribuées. Ils reçoivent une indemnité; ils sont élus pour 3 ans et rééligibles. Les attributions du Comité Consultatif des Colonies et l'indemnité des délégués sont fixées par décrets de l'Empereur. Un ou plusieurs des membres nommés par l'Empereur seront chargés spécialement par le Ministre de la Marine et des Colonies de remplir l'office de délégués pour les diverses colonies auxquelles il n'est pas encore accordé de Constitution. TITRE III.-Des autres Colonies Françaises. • XVIII. Les colonies autres que la Martinique, la Guadeloupe et la Réunion, seront régies par décrets de l'Empereur, jusqu'à ce qu'il ait été statué à leur égard par un Sénatus-Consulte. TITRE IV.-Dispositions Générales. XIX. Les lois, ordonnances, décrets et règlements en vigueur dans les colonies continuent à recevoir leur exécution, en tout ce qui n'est pas contraire au présent Sénatus-Consulte. Fait au Palais du Sénat, le 7 Avril, 1854. Le Président, TROPLONG. Les Secrétaires, COMTE DE LA RIBOISIERE. Mandons et ordonnons que les présentes, revêtues du sceau de l'Etat, et insérées au Bulletin des Lois, soient adressées aux cours, aux tribunaux et aux autorités administratives, pour qu'ils les inscrivent sur leurs registres, les observent et les fassent observer, et notre Ministre Secrétaire d'Etat au Département de la Justice est chargé d'en surveiller la publication. Fait au Palais des Tuileries, le 3 Mai, 1854. Par l'Empereur: Le Ministre d'Etat, ACHILLE FOULD. NAPOLEON. BRITISH ORDER IN COUNCIL, revoking the Order in Council of November 14, 1854,* relative to the Trial and Punishment of British Subjects for crimes committed within the Dominions of Borneo.-August 13, 1855. At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the 13th day of THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL. WHEREAS by a certain Act of Parliament, made and passed in the session of Parliament holden in the 6th and 7th years of Her Page 912. Majesty's reign [cap. 94], intituled "An Act to remove doubts as to the exercise of power and jurisdiction by Her Majesty within divers countries and places out of Her Majesty's dominions, and to render the same more effectual." It is amongst other things enacted, that it is and shall be lawful for Her Majesty to hold, exercise, and enjoy any power or jurisdiction which Her Majesty now hath, or may at any time hereafter have, within any country or place out of Her Majesty's dominions, in the same and as ample a manner as if Her Majesty had acquired such power or jurisdiction by the cession or conquest of territory; And whereas Her Majesty hath power and jurisdiction in the dominions of the Sultan of Borneo; And whereas, in pursuance of the above-recited Act of Parlia ment, Her Majesty was pleased, on the 14th day of November, 1854, by and with the advice of her Privy Council, to order that any act coming under Her Majesty's jurisdiction as aforesaid, and which, being done in any part of Her Majesty's dominions, would be criminal, and would render the agent or his abettors amenable to punishment, should, when done by British subjects within the dominions of the Sultan of Borneo, be considered as criminal to the same extent as if such act had been done within Her Majesty's dominions, and should be liable to be inquired of, tried, deter mined, and punished in Her Majesty's colony of Labuan, or in Her Majesty's possession of Singapore, which places Her Majesty was pleased, by and with the advice of her Privy Council, to appoint as those wherein crimes and offences committed by British subjects within the dominions of the Sultan of Borneo, might be inquired of, tried, determined, and punished; And whereas it is expedient that the above-recited Order of Her Majesty in Council should be revoked and annulled, Her Majesty is pleased, by and with the advice of her Privy Council, to order, and doth hereby order, that the said Order of Her Majesty in Council shall be, and the same is hereby revoked and annulled; And the Right Honourable the Earl of Clarendon, and the Right Honourable Sir William Molesworth, Bart., 2 of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, and the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, and the Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India, are to give the necessary directions herein as to them may respectively appertain. WM. L. BATHURST. * Vol. XXXI. Page 984. 1 TREATY between Sardinia and Austria, for the abolition of the Droit d'Aubaine.-Vienna, August 31, 1763.* [Ratified by the Empress Queen, October 14, 1763.] (Translation.) WHEREAS some years since certain controversies arose, as well on the part of the most serene and most powerful Prince Lord Charles Emanuel, King of Sardinia, Duke of Savoy, and Prince of Piedmont, as on the part of the most serene and most powerful Princess, the Lady Maria Theresa, Empress of the Romans, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, Archduchess of Austria, concerning the right of admission and hereditary succession of subjects to the goods and the hereditary estates situated within the jurisdiction of either of the aforesaid Princes; and for that reason a question was moved concerning the explanation of the Royal Constitutions of Piedmont, Book VI, Lit. XII, on the law of Aubaine and reciprocity, which gave occasion for the decreeing, on the Austrian part, of the right of Retorsion; afterwards, however, their said sacred Majesties, being desirous that not only the bond of alliance, union and sincere friendship, by which they are connected, should be more and more closely drawn, but that the happy effects of this concord should be poured forth with a bountiful hand over all their subjects on either side, decreed to abolish all those things, which either were or appeared to be obstacles to the hereditary successions of these (their subjects), and to establish with respect to these (successions) a mutual and equal right among the subjects of either side; with respect to this matter a Convention has been made between their before-mentioned sacred Majesties, for themselves and their successors, through the undersigned Ministers, in the following manner : 1. Henceforth let all and singular the subjects, of both sexes, of her sacred Imperial Majesty the Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, and of her heirs and successors, enjoy throughout all the dominions of his sacred Majesty the King of Sardinia, and of the most Serene House of Savoy, the right of succeeding, either by testament or ab intestato, or through gift among the living, or on account of death, or from other legitimate act of a last will, or among the living, to all rights, titles and goods, both movable and immovable, also the noble and greater feods, actions, things corporeal and incorporeal, without any exception, as well of their own fellow-citizens as of the subjects of the King of Sardinia, or of any other Prince, who should happen to die in the dominions of his same sacred Majesty the King of Sardinia, or in any other (dominion); without any neces any * Referred to in Treaty between Austria and Sardinia of 18th October, 1851, Vol. XLII. Page 1285. sity for special royal privilege to the heirs, or for letters, as they are called, of naturalization; so that they may be regarded with respect to the acquisition of those goods, as true natural subjects, and may enjoy the free power of disposing of the same. In like manner henceforth let all and singular the subjects, of both sexes, of his sacred Majesty the King of Sardinia, and of his heirs and successors, enjoy throughout all the dominions of her sacred Imperial Majesty the Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, and of the most Serene Archducal House of Austria, the right of succeeding either by testament or ab intestato, or through gift among the living, or on account of death, or from any other legitimate act of a last will, or among the living, to all rights, titles and goods, both movable and immovable, also the noble and greater feods, actions, things corporeal and incorporeal, without any exception, as well of their own fellow-citizens, as of the subjects of the Empress Queen, or of any other Prince, who should happen to die in the dominions of the same sacred Majesty, or in any other (dominion); without any necessity for special Royal privilege to the heirs; so that they may be regarded with respect to the acquisition of those goods, as true natural subjects, and may enjoy the free power of disposing of the same. Which free power itself ought to be understood as mutually extending so far, that it is lawful and allowed to subjects of both Contracting Parties of either sex, even elder sons, or only sons of illustrious families, who shall, in the ways above mentioned, be called upon to enter upon successions in the dominions of another, to transfer their permanent domicile thither, if they so wish; yet, nevertheless, at the same time, freely to retain possession and property of whatsoever they possessed in the dominions of their own Prince. II. It should be understood that by this Convention there is an entire abrogation of any laws that have been hitherto passed, or may be passed, within the dominions of the same Contracting Princes, against foreigners; or against non-residents, or residents indeed, but not citizens; especially, on the part of Sardinia, of Tit. XII, Book VI, of the Royal Constitutions, so far as they are opposed to this Convention, or appear to be so opposed; and on the part of Austria, of the decrees that were made for establishing the right of Retorsion; in such manner, indeed, that all those things, in respect to the subjects of either Prince, ought to be regarded as if they had never existed, and that it shall not be possible at any time to abrogate this arrangement by any contrary law or custom. III. Since, however, in acquiring the right of citizenship or naturalization, there is neither the same method nor the same custom on both sides; also since the orders and States of certain |