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Treasury Instructions for the Guidance of the Agents-General for Crown Colonies 5th March 1860

1860réf. 24334London: Printed by W. Mitchener 1860. Hardcover. Very good overall. Instructions from the Commissioners of Audits approved by Queen Victoria's Commissioners of the Treasury which were provided to the Agents General of British colonies. Among the "Supplies" procured and forwarded to the colonies are included "Sub-Marine Telegraph Cables Steam Vessels Dredging Vessels" showing a keen involvement with advancing telegraph capabilities after the successful launching of the first telegraphic cable across the Atlantic by the Great Eastern in 1858. The instructions include two types of colonies "Crown" and "Representative" seemingly related to the application of the instructions which are "Strictly Applied" in Crown Colonies and "Applied when Practicable" in Representative Colonies. The Crown Colonies include many islands of the Caribbean - Bermuda Jamaica Grenada St. Lucia Bahamas Turks Islands and Trinidad. Bermuda is unusually listed "Convict Service only partly representative. Other Crown colonies are Ceylon Mauritius Western Australia the only Australian state so designated Gibraltar Malta Natal Labuan Sierra Leone Gambia Gold Coast Hong Kong British Guiana British Columbia British Kaffraria St. Helena Falkland Islands Heligoland. Representative colonies include Victoria Tasmania and New Zealand Cape of Good Hope New Brunswick Newfoundland Vancouver's Island and St. Kitts. Also included are lists of supplies to be procured and forwarded and incidental duties. 8vo 24pp. Brown gilt calf presentation binding with gold gilt title border and royal crest. Deaccessed from the Foreign & Commonwealth Office Library with their stamp at the front end paper. Rubbed at spine paper "Duplicate" label partially present at front cover title page detached. Binding slightly separated but firm. Trove cites digital copies only. OCLC: 276298293 cites 2 copies at the Archives of Canada and Auckland Libraries. Printed by W. Mitchener hardcover

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Translation of The Penal Code In Force in the Philippines

1900réf. 014744Washington: Government Printing Office 1900. Hardcover. Good. Boards in three-quarter calf with brown cloth sides; two leather spine labels with gilt lettering. Boards and spine scuffed and heavily rubbed. ''Bassett / Office Attorney General'' hand-written on front cover. From the Library of the Philippine Commission as identified on leather spine label paper label on front pastedown and a few rubber-stampings. Internally generally clean except for two pages which are soiled with what looks like orange paint here there is a bit of blemished text but all words can still be parsed. 155 pages. English translation of Spain's penal code as amended by the codification commission of the Colonial Provinces designated to be published in and put into effect in the Philippine Islands in 1884. This copy belonged to Arthur Bassett 1878-1962 Assistant Attorney General for the Philippines. After earning his law degree at Washington University St. Louis he was appointed by the Philippine Commission to be the Assistant Attorney General for the Philippine Islands an office he held between 1903-1906 working with the first Attorney General Lebbeus R. Wilfley. The two had been associated back home in Missouri and in 1906 they each relocated to Shanghai when they were appointed to the United States Court in China Bassett as first district attorney and Wilfley as a judge. Bassett followed this with a short stint working as counsel for the British-Amerina Tobacco Co. in Shanghai. Upon the U.S.'s entry into the First World War he joined the Army and served as judge advocate general in North China 1917-1919 with the rank of major. Between the World Wars he was chairman of the Red Cross Committee in China. Bassett the ''old China hand'' returned to the United States in 1941 and settled in San Francisco. Government Printing Office hardcover

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