Ordinances therewith incorporated, shall operate to the restraint or punishment of any act or thing done under lawful authority or sanctioned by the same, yet so as that in every case the proof of such lawful authority shall lie upon the person alleging the same. JOHN BOWRING.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong this 12th day of June, 1856.

L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, Clerk of Councils.

INDEX.

A.

ACQUA. Engagement with Great Britain. Compensation.

ACQUA TOWN.

Page

2nd February, 1855. 546
Declaration with Great Britain. Trade. Navigation.

River Cameroons, 30th January, 1855. 544

Agreement with Great Britain. Reprisals.

River Cameroons, 14th January, 1856. 552

ACTS OF PARLIAMENT. See GREAT BRITAIN.
ADDITIONAL ARTICLES. See TREATIES.
ADDITIONAL CONVENTIONS. See TREATIES.
AFRICA (EAST COAST). Correspondence with Great Britain. Slave Trade.

1856. 850

AFRICA (WEST COAST). Correspondence with Great Britain. Slave Trade.

1856. 850, 861.

TREATIES, &c. between GREAT BRITAIN and NATIVE

STATES and CHIEFS of the WEST COAST of
AFRICA, viz. :—with

Acqua. Engagement. Compensation.

Page

AFRICA (WEST COAST). TREATIES, &c. with FOREIGN POWERS continued,

Old Town, 21st January, 1856. 555

See also CREEK TOWN, DUKE TOWN, OLD TOWN.

ALBREDA. Convention. Great Britain and France.... London, 7th March, 1857. 36
ALIENS. Ordinance (British). Rights of Aliens to hold and transfer Pro-

perty within Colony of Hong Kong.

AMOY. Regulations. British Trade

Hong Kong, 17th November, 1853. 590
Hong Kong, 18th May, 1854. 594

ANGOLA. Decree (Portuguese). Prohibition of Factories on Coast of Angola.

Lisbon, 27th September, 1856. 943
Abolition of Compulsory Labour of Free
Negroes of Angola.

Lisbon, 3rd November, 1856. 921
Abolition of Slavery in certain Territories of
Province of Angola.

Lisbon, 5th July, 1856. 906

(Do.)

Law. (Do.)

ANGOLA. Portaria (Portuguese). Conveyance of Slaves by Sea from one
part of Province of Angola to another.

Page.

Lisbon, 17th February, 1857. 933

ANHALT-BERNBOURG. TREATIES, &c. with FOREIGN POWERS, viz. :—with

Argentine Confederation, &c. Treaty.

Friendship. Commerce. Navi-

gation.

Paraná, 19th September, 1857. 1277

Sicilies, &c. Declaration. Customs
Dues. Navigation.

Naples, 7th July, 1856. 1267

ANHALT-DESSAU-COETHEN. TREATIES, &c. with FOREIGN POWERS, viz. :-

with

merce. Navigation.

Paraná, 19th September, 1857. 1277

Sicilies, &c. Declaration. Cus-

toms Dues. Navigation.

Naples, 7th July, 1856. 1267

ARGENTINE CONFEDERATION. Treaty with Prussia, &c. Friendship.

ARRANGEMENTS. See TREATIES.

Commerce.

Navigation.

Paraná, 19th September, 1857. 1277

ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC OCEANS. Message (United States). Transit

AUSTRIA.

Routes.

Washington, 15th May, 1856. 782
Correspondence with Switzerland. Affairs of Neuchâtel.

Protocol of Conference with Turkey, &c. Bessarabian Frontier.

of Conference with Denmark, &c. Redemption of

Sound Dues ......

TREATIES, &c. with FOREIGN
Denmark, &c. Treaty. Sound Dues.

January, 1857. 1302

Paris, 6th January, 1857.

92

...Copenhagen, 14th March, 1857.
POWERS, viz. :—with

35

BADEN. TREATIES, &c. with FOREIGN POWERS, viz. :—with

Argentine Confederation, &c. Treaty.

Netherlands. Convention. Consuls in Dutch Colonies.

Carlsruhe, 27th July, 1857. 518