Any breach of Queen's Regulations by a native shall be cognizable only in the proper Native Court.

10. The power of making Queen's Regulations under Article 45 of the Principal Order is hereby extended to the making of Regulations with respect to the registration of documents purporting or operating to create, declare, assign, limit, or extinguish any right, title, or interest in or over immovable property situate in the Protectorate, and any Regulations under this Article may prescribe the period within which any documents are to be registered, and such penalties for nonregistration, whether by stamp duties or otherwise, and whether in lieu of or in addition to the penalties mentioned in the said Article 45 as may seem fit.

Provided that nothing in any Regulations made under this Article shall make any instrument inadmissible in evidence in any criminal proceedings.

As from the time when any Regulations under this Article come into force Article 47 of the Principal Order shall be repealed, without prejudice to anything done or suffered thereunder.

11. The Commissioner may, by any Queen's Regulations made under the powers of the Principal Order or this Örder, fix such penalties for the breach of any Regulations as may seem proper, and where no penalty is so fixed a person found guilty of such breach shall on conviction be liable to a fine which may extend to one thousand rupees, or to imprisonment of either kind, which may extend to two months, or both, in addition to such forfeiture as is mentioned in Article 45 of the Principal Order.

12. Every person subject to the Principal Order shall be liable to be summoned as a witness in a Native Court; provided that where the officer holding the Native Court is not a European British subject, the summons or process must be countersigned by a Judge of a Native Court who is a European British subject, and any proceedings against any person for disobeying such summons or process must be taken in the proper Court having jurisdiction in the like cases under this Order.

13. Expressions defined in any Order in Council relating to the Protectorate shall have the same respective meanings in any Rules, Regulations, or Orders made under the authority of that Order, unless other provision is made or the context otherwise requires.

14. The following provisions of the Principal Order are hereby repealed :—

Article 3, paragraphs (v), (vii), and (viii).

Article 7, paragraphs (iii) and (vii).

Article 9.

Article 14.

Article 30.

Article 45, the words "and published as he directs," and the last paragraph of that Article.

Article 53.

Schedule, the words and figures "except section 331."

15. This Order may be cited as "The East Africa Order in Council, 1899," and shall be construed with the Principal Order. A. W. FITZROY.

REGULATIONS prescribing Fees to be levied under the East African Seaports Regulations of 1899. Mombasa, April 26, 1900.

THE following Regulations made by Her Majesty's Commissioner and Consul-General under Article 45 (iv) of "The East Africa Order in Council, 1897,"* and hereby declared to be urgent, are published for general information:-

1. It shall be lawful for the Commissioner, at his discretion, to extend by notice "The East Africa Seaports Regulations, 1899," to any seaport or other locality within the Protectorate.

2. It shall be lawful for the Sub-Commissioner or Collector to charge a fee, not exceeding two rupees, for the permission required under Article 1 of the aforesaid Regulations to hold any Ngoma, not being a Maulidi or other religious celebration. 3. These Regulations may be cited as "The Additional Seaports Regulations, 1900."

ARTHUR H. HARDINGE, Her Majesty's Commissioner and Consul-General.

Mombasa, April 26, 1900.

REGULATIONS respecting Quarrying and Blasting in the East Africa Protectorate. (Application to the Island of Mombasa.) Mombasa, August 14, 1900.

NOTICE.

THE following Regulations made by Her Majesty's Commissioner and Consul-General, under Article 45 of the East

* See Vol. 20. Page 66.

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Africa Order in Council, and hereby declared to be urgent, are published for general information.

ARTHUR H. HARDINGE, Her Majesty's Commis

sioner and Consul-General.

Mombasa, August 14, 1900.

Quarrying and Blasting Regulations.

Art. 1. No rock, stone, or other substance shall be quarried, blasted, loosened, or removed from its bed by the action of dynamite, gunpowder, blasting powder, or any other explosive, except with the permission and under the supervision of the Local Government.

2. Every person wishing to employ any explosive for any of the purposes above mentioned, must previously make a written application to the Superintendent of Inland Revenue on a special form, which will be supplied for the purpose.

3. The Superintendent of Inland Revenue shall nominate a duly qualified person to superintend each or any of the operations described in Article 1.

4. Before igniting the fuze, every precaution should be taken to insure that the charge is covered with débris to a sufficient extent to prevent the stone or other substance which is being blasted from travelling to any distance.

5. No person or animal will be allowed to remain in the vicinity of the place where blasting is being carried on, except the man deputed to ignite the charge.

6. It will be the duty of the person, at whose application blasting is being carried on, to provide at his own expense three flagmen, who will be stationed by the Government official in charge at a distance of at least 100 yards from each other, and from the spot where the fuze is to be ignited.

7. When a fuze is being ignited, a bell or triangle will be struck, and the flagmen will keep their flags waving until the explosion has been seen or it has become certain that the fuze has not been ignited.

8. No fuze may be used for blasting the length of which is less than 2 feet, and the charge of gunpowder to be exploded must not exceed half the depth of the hole drilled.

9. Any explosive substance which it is proposed to employ for blasting must be kept in the store-room of the Government Stone Quarry for at least twenty-four hours before it can be used.

10. Blasting may only be carried on at such times and on such days as the Sub-Commissioner may from time to time determine.

* See Vol. 20. Page 66.

11. These Regulations shall be applicable to such area or areas as may be notified by Her Majesty's Commissioner and Consul-General from time to time in the "Official Gazette."

12. The foregoing Regulations may be cited as "The Quarrying and Blasting Regulations, 1900."

These Regulations are hereby applied to the Island of Mombasa.

AFRICA (Somaliland).

BRITISH ORDER IN COUNCIL, for regulating Her Majesty's Jurisdiction in the Somaliland Protectorate. Balmoral, October 7, 1899.*

At the Court at Balmoral, the 7th day of October, 1899.

PRESENT: THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught and Strathearn. Lord Balfour of Burleigh. Sir Fleetwood Edwards.

WHEREAS by Treaty, grant, usage, sufferance, and other lawful means, Her Majesty the Queen has power and jurisdiction within the territories comprised within the limits of this Order:

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by virtue, and in exercise of the powers on this behalf by "The Foreign Jurisdiction Act, 1890," or otherwise, in Her Majesty vested, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:

PART I.- Preliminary.

1. This Order may be cited as "The Somaliland Order in Council, 1899."

The limits of this Order are the territories comprised in the Somaliland Protectorate, which includes the territories bounded on the north by the Gulf of Aden, on the east and south by the territories under the Protectorate of Italy, and on the west by the territories of Ethiopia, and the French Protectorate of Jibuti.

If Her Majesty is pleased to direct that any other territories, for the time being under the protection of Her Majesty, shall

"Loudon Gazette," October 17, 1899.

form part of the Somaliland Protectorate, those territories shall, from and after a date fixed by an order of the Secretary of State, be deemed to be within the limits of this Order.

2. This Order is divided into Parts as follows:

Part I. Preliminary.

Part II. Application and effect of Order.
Part III.

Application of law of British India and of the

United Kingdom.

Part IV. Criminal matters.

Part V. Civil matters.

Part VI. Miscellaneous.

3. In this Order

(i.) "The Protectorate" means the territories for the time being comprised in Her Majesty's Somaliland Protectorate; (ii.) The Secretary of State" means one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State;

(iii) The Consul-General" means Her Majesty's ConsulGeneral for the territories comprised within the limits of this Order, including a person acting temporarily, with the approval of the Secretary of State, as or for the Consul-General;

(iv.) "British subject" includes a British protected person, that is to say, a person who either (a) is a native of any Protectorate of Her Majesty beyond Africa and Arabia, and is for the time being in the Somaliland Protectorate, or (b) by virtue of "The Foreign Jurisdiction Act, 1890," or otherwise enjoys Her Majesty's protection in the Protectorate;

(v.) "Resident" means having a fixed place of abode in the Protectorate;

(vi.) "Native" means any person who is not a British subject as hereinbefore defined, or of European or American race or parentage;

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(vii.) Foreigner" means a subject or citizen of a state in amity with Her Majesty, not being a native as hereinbefore defined;

(viii.) "Protectorate Court" means the Court held by the Consul-General, or other Court exercising the principal civil and criminal jurisdiction in the Protectorate;

(ix.) "The Court means the Protectorate Court and any Court subordinate thereto, as the case may be.

(x.) "Treaty" includes any Convention, Agreement, or Arrangement with any State or Government, King, Chief, people, or tribe, made by or on behalf of Her Majesty, or to the benefits of which Her Majesty has succeeded;

(xi.) "Administration" means (unless a contrary intention appears from the context) letters of administration, including the same with will annexed, or grauted for special or limited purposes, or limited in duration;

(xii.) "Ship" includes any vessel used in navigation, how