In obedience to the orders from His Majesty's Government the following is enacted: "The Chinese emigration hitherto carried on in the port of Macao is henceforward prohibited. "In conformity with the provisions of Article 83 of the Emigration Regulations, this determination shall be complied with within three months after this date. "Let the competent authorities take note and execute the present Proclamation. "Government House at Macao, 27th December, 1873. "VISCONDE DE S. JANUARIO, "Governor of the Province, &c." CORRESPONDENCE between Great Britain and the United States, respecting the Boundary between Labrador and the Dominion of Canada.—October, November, 1874. SIR, Sir E. Thornton to Mr. Fish. Washington, October 26, 1874. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 24th instant, and to express my great regret that it has been out of my power as yet to give a positive answer to your question with regard to the political position of Labrador. I can, however, assure you that the delay has not been caused by any neglect on the part of this Legation. From information which I have received this morning, I am now enabled to state positively that the whole of Labrador outside of the province of Quebec, the boundary of which is laid down in the Imperial Statute 6 Geo. IV, chapter 59, is under the jurisdiction and government of the Colony of Newfoundland, and is actually included in and forms a part of the Colony. I have, &c., Hamilton Fish, Esq. EDWD. THORNTON. SIR, Mr. Fish to Sir E. Thornton. Department of State, Washington, October 27, 1874. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your note of yesterday's date, in which you are pleased to state, in answer to the inquiry of this Department, that the whole of Labrador outside of the Province of Quebec is under the jurisdiction and Government of the Colony of Newfoundland, and is actually included in and forms a part of that Colony. Thanking you for this information, I have, &c., Sir E. Thornton. HAMILTON FISH. SIR, Sir E. Thornton to Mr. Fish. Washington, November 23, 1874. WITH reference to my note of the 26th ultimo, I have the honour to inclose copies of a despatch and of its inclosures which I have received from the Governor-General of Canada, giving more precise details as to the boundary between Labrador and the Dominion of Canada, and the position of the former possession in relation to the latter or to the Colony of Newfoundland. A map showing the exact boundary on the coast, and the assumed boundary in the interior, is also inclosed. I have, &c., Hamilton Fish, Esq. SIR, EDWD. THORNTON. (Inclosure.)-Lord Dufferin to Sir E. Thornton. Government House, Ottawa, November 16, 1874. WITH reference to your despatch of June 20, and to subsequent correspondence making an inquiry on the part of the United States Government as to the position of Labrador in relation to the Dominion of Canada or Newfoundland, I have the honour to inclose, for the information of Mr. Fish, a copy of an order of the Privy Council which contains the views of my Government on the subject. Appended to the Minute are extracts from the Imperial Statutes bearing on the question, and a map showing the exact boundary on the coast and the assumed boundary in the interior. Sir E. Thornton. I have, &c., DUFFERIN. (Sub-Inclosure 1.)-Report of a Committee of the Honourable the Privy Council, approved by His Excellency the Governor-General in Council, on the 12th day of November, 1874. IN a despatch dated 20th June, 1874, from Sir Edward Thornton to your Excellency, inclosing a communication from the Hon. Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State at Washington, desiring to be informed whether any part of Labrador is separated from the jurisdiction of either the Dominion of Canada or that of Newfoundland. The Honorable the Secretary of State, to whom this despatch, with inclosures, has been referred, reports that the boundary-line between the Dominion of Canada and Labrador is a line drawn due north and south from the Bay or Harbour of Ance au Blanc Sablon, near the Straits of Belle Isle, as far as the 52nd degree of north latitude; that Labrador extends eastward and northward from that point to Hudson's Straits. That the division-line in the interior separating Labrador from the Dominion of Canada has only been defined as far north as the 52nd degree of north latitude, but it has been assumed that the boundary-line in the interior would have taken the direction laid down on the accompanying map, which follows the height of land. That Labrador, with the islands adjacent thereto, is annexed to Newfoundland, and under the Government of that island. Attached to the report of the Secretary of State are extracts from the Imperial Statute bearing on the question, and a map showing the exact boundary on the coast and the assumed boundary in the interior. The Committee recommend that a copy of this Minute, with map and extracts from the Imperial Statutes above alluded to, be transmitted to Sir Edward Thornton for the information of the United States Government. Certified: W. A. HIMSWORTH, Clerk Privy Council, Canada. (Sub-Inclosure 2.)-Imperial Statute 49 Geo. III, cap. 27, AND whereas His Majesty, by his Proclamation of the 7th day of October, 1763, was pleased to declare that he had put the coast of Labrador from the River St. John to Hudson's Straits, with the Islands of Anticosti and Madelaine, and all other smaller islands lying on the said coast, under the care and inspection of the Governor of Newfoundland; and whereas, by an Act passed in the 14th year of the reign of His present Majesty, entitled "An Act for making more effectual provision for the government of the Province of Quebec in North America," all such territories, islands, and countries as since the 10th day of February, 1763, had been made part of the Government of Newfoundland, were, during His Majesty's pleasure, annexed to and made part of the Province of Quebec, as created by the said Proclamation; and whereas, in pursuance of an Act passed in the 31st year of His present Majesty's reign, entitled "An Act to repeal certain parts of an Act passed in the 14th year of His Majesty's reign, entitled 'An Act for making more effectual provision for the government of the Province of Quebec, in North America, and to make further provision for the Government of the said Province,'" the said Province of Quebec was divided into two Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, the latter including the parts of the coast of Labrador and the said islands so formerly annexed to the Government of Newfoundland; and whereas it is expedient that the said coast of Labrador and the adjacent islands (except the Islands of Madelaine) should be reannexed to the Government of Newfoundland: Be it therefore enacted, that such parts of the coast of Labrador from the River St. John to Hudson's Straits, and the said Island of Anticosti, and all other smaller islands so annexed to the Government of Newfoundland by the said Proclamation of the 7th day of October, 1763 (except the said Islands of Madelaine), shall be separated from the said Government of Lower Canada, and be again re-annexed to the Government of Newfoundland. Anything in the said Act passed in the 31st year of His present Majesty's reign or any other Act to the contrary notwithstanding. (Sub-Inclosure 3.)-Imperial Act 6 Geo. IV, cap. 59, A.D. 1825 IX. AND whereas, under and by virtue of a certain Act passed in the 49th year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, entitled "An Act for establishing Courts of Judicature in the Island of Newfoundland and in the Islands adjacent, and for reannexing part of Labrador and the Islands lying on the said coast to the Government of Newfoundland;" and of the Act passed in the 5th year of the reign of His present Majesty, entitled "An Act for the better Administration of Justice in Newfoundland, and for other purposes," the coast of Labrador, from the River St. John to Hudson's Straits, and the Island of Anticosti, and all the islands adjacent to the said coast (except the Islands of Madelaine) are annexed to and form part of the Government of Newfoundland, and it is expedient that certain parts of the said coast of Labrador should be re-annexed to and form part of the Province of Lower Canada: Be it therefore enacted, that so much of the said coast as lies westward of a line to be drawn due north and south from the Bay or Harbour of Ance Sablon, inclusive, as far as the 52nd degree of north latitude, with the Island of Anticosti, and all other islands adjacent to such part as last aforesaid, of the coast of Labrador, shall be, and the same are hereby, re-annexed to and made a part of the said Province of Lower Canada, and shall henceforward be subject to the laws of the said Province, and to none other; and so much of the said recited Acts passed in the 49th year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, and in the 5th year of the reign of His present Majesty, as relates to such part of the coast of Labrador as last aforesaid, and the said Island of Anticosti, and other adjacent islands shall be, and the same is hereby, repealed. DECREE of the President of Honduras, declaring the Neutrality of the Republic in the War between Spain and the Allied Republics of Bolivia, Chile, Equator, and Peru.— Gracias, September 12, 1866. (Translation.) THE President of the Republic of Honduras, Considering: that the state of affairs caused in the Republic by the continuation of the war between Spain on the one part, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia on the other part, places the Government in the necessity of providing for eventualities to which the exercise of belligerent rights in its territories and waters may give rise; Bearing in mind that this duty is still more imperative since the determination of some of the belligerents to issue letters of marque is known, and to transfer hostilities to the Atlantic Ocean, which step may bring them to Cuban waters, and the neighbouring coasts of Honduras; And conceiving that all unnecessary restrictions imposed on the rights of the belligerents would imply a violation of what is prescribed by the law of nations, the principles of which exact from neutrals perfect impartiality with respect to the parties at war with each other, so that no step taken by the neutral Sovereign with regard to both shall infer offence to either, so long as neither exceed the limits which neutrality imposes on them, decrees: ART. 1. The Republic of Honduras, resolved to remain neutral in the existing contention between Chile, Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia on the one part, and Spain on the other part, accepts the principles which govern the rights and obligations of neutrals, and in consequence recognizes the right of the vessels of war and privateers, as well of Spain as of Chile, Peru, and their allies, to take to the ports of the Republic in both seas the prizes they reciprocally may make; recognizing also the right which favours the belligerents to establish in the said ports the respective competent tribunals, to adjudge such prizes, to sell them, and to do all that is permitted to Powers at war with each other in neutral territory and waters. 2. Let this Declaration be duly placed before the Legislative Power, communicate it to the Governments of the other States of Central America, explaining the reasons on which the Declaration is founded; communicate it also to Spain, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, and |