I.  Europa.  613  35.  Großbritannien  und  Irland.

of  Mauritius,  Tobago  a  ward  of  Trinidad,  as  also  Ashanti!,  the  Northern  Territories  of  the  Gold
Coast?,  Basutoland?,  Bechuanaland!,  Swaziland®,  the  Western  Pacific  Islands®,  Fiji”,  Northern
Nigeria®,  Uganda®,  Weihaiwei!®,  Somaliland!!,  St.  Helena!?  and  Gibraltar!?.

2.  Colonies  governed  by  a  Governor  and  a  Legislative  Council  who  are  all  nominated  by
Crown.  The  majority  of  this  Council  consist  of  executive  officers.  In  some  instances  there  is
also  an  Executive  and  Legislative  Council.  To  this  class  belong:  British  Honduras,  Ceylon,
East-Africa,  Protectorate,  The  Falkland  Islands,  Gambia,  The  Gold  Coast,  Grenada,  Hongkong
and  Kowloon!*,  Nyassaland  Protectorate,  St.  Lucia,  St.  Vincent,  The  Seychelles,  Sierra  Leone,
Southern  Nigeria,  Straits  Settlements,  Trinida  and  Tobago'!®.

3.  Colonies  with  elected  Legislative  Councils  ‘‘some  of  whose  members  are  elected;  but  the
constitution  is  careful  to  provide  that  these  elected  members  should  be  in  a  minority!*.,
These  are  Mauritius,  the  Leeward  Islands,  Malta,  Jamaica!”,  Fiji,  British  Guiana  and  Cyprus.
The  former  has  a  Court  of  Policy  with  7  official  and  8  elected  members,  the  latter  though  officially
classed  with  above  colonies  is  held  by  Britain  under  certain  occupation  terms  “for  an  undefined
period’  (Anson)  and  is  governed  by  a  High  Commissioner,  an  Executive  and  Legislative  Council.

4.  Here  we  have  a  group  of  3  colonies:  Barbadoes,  Bermuda  and  the  Bahamas!®,  These
are  colonies  with  representative,  but  not  with  responsible  government.  Thus  in  each  there  is
an  elected  assembiy,  but  a  nominated  Legislative  Council,  a  Governor,  and  an  Executive  Council,
neither  of  whom  are  responsible  to  the  electorate.  ‘These  tlıree  colonies  represent  a  survival:;
it  seems  plain,  not  merely  from  the  action  of  the  colonies  which  have  surrendered  tlıeir  constitutions,
  but  from  the  recent  cases  of  the  Transvaal  and  Orange  River  Colonies,  that  experience
approves  two  types  of  government  and  two  only,  the  Crown  Colony  and  the  self-governing
colony’’!®,

There  is  a  class  of  colony  which  might  be  ternıed  'nondescript’..  To  this  belong  such  colonies
as  the  New  Hebrides  which  are  governed  jointly  by  the  French  Government  and  Great  Britain
through  naval  officers,  and  Ascension  Island,  which  is  governed  by  the  Admiralty,  as  is  also  Tristan
d’Acunhae.

The  Peninsula  of  Aden  and  the  Island  of  Perim  are  governed  from  Bombay,  and  in  stricetness
form  a  part  of  British  India.  The  Island  of  Sombrero  in  the  W.  Indies,  and  some  small  islands
in  the  Pacifio  are  administered  by  the  Board  of  Trade;  they  are  used  for  lighthouses.

(b.)  Protectorates.
The  great  difference  between  protectorates  and  colonies  is,  that  the  latter  are  British
territory,  the  former  are  not.  ‘A  man  born  in  a  British  colony  is  a  British  citizen;  a  man  born
in  a  protectorate  is  prima  facie  an  alien’”””.

:  Administered  by  resident  Commissioner  under  Government  of  Gold  Coast  Colony.
ame  as  ’

®  Administered  by  resident  Commissioner  under  High  Commissioner  for  S.  Africa.
*  Same  as  °

5  Same  as  °

®  Administered  by  a  High  Commissioner.

”  By  High  Commissioner  for  Western  Pacific  Islands.

°  By  a  High  Commissioner.

®  Commissioner.

1%  Commissioner;  leased  from  China.

11  Commissioner.

18  Governor,  and  Executive  Council.

13  Governor.

14  Leased  from  China  for  99  years.

 Vide  Anson  on  ‘The  Dominions  and  Dependencies‘“.

 Anson:  “Laws  and  Customs  of  the  Constitution‘;  vol.  II,  part.  II,  pP  66.

17  The  Government  of  Jamaica  administers  Turk’s  and  Caicos  Islands.

ı8  Known  in  the  Colonial  Office  as  the  3  B’s.

 Anson,  vol.  II,  part.  II,  p.  68.

22  Anson,  “Laws  and  Customs‘,  vol.  ID,  part.  II,  p.  60.