QUEENSLRTU’D COAST ISLANDS. 2211
An
Act to provide that certaiii Islands in Torres Straits and lying 43 V l c ~ o f i ~ x -.- No. 1-between the Continent of Australia and the Island of New Guinea shall become part of the Colony of Queensland and subject t o tlie Laws in force therein.
[ 2 4 1 ~ JUNE, 1879.
HEREAS by lcttcrs patcat untler the grcnt seal of tlic Uiiitccl Pre:Liitblc.
Kingdom of Grcat Britain and Ireland bcnriiig clatc, tlic tenth Octolm i n tlic forty-sccoucl year of thc rcign of Her Majesty Quccn Victoria Eci. said Majcsty did authorise tlic Govcrnor for thc time bcing of‘ tlic Colony of Quccdaiicl by proclamation uiiclcr his Iiaiid nnd tlic lmblic seal of tho coloiiy t o d c c l ~ ~ x that fi.0111 aiicl aftcr a clay to be thorciii mentioned ccrtaiu islsiicls wliich nro dcscrilscd in tlic sclicclule licrcto sliould bc aniicsccl t o and form part of t h e said colony And in tlic said lettcrs patcnt it mas proviclcd that tlic said Govcriior is not to issue S L W ~ pl’0clnuiatioii a s aforcsaicl until the LcgisIaturc o€ tlic said colony sliall h a ~ c passed a 1:1w provirliiig that ihc said islands shall oii tlic ilny tLforcssicl 1)ccomc part of tlic said colony aiiti sn1)jcct t o ihc l a ~ m i n force thcrcin h i i d in thc said lctkers pnteiit it nras also povictecl that, tlic npl)ticni;ion of‘ thc snicl lnws to tlic said islands might b c moclificd citlicy by such proclaiiiatioii as aforesaid or by any law or laws to bc from tiiiic to tiiiic passed by tllc LegisliitLlru of this colony for the g ~ o ~ c ~ ~ i i i i e i i t of the said islaiitls s o aiiiicuccl And wlicrcas it is desirablc that thc said islands slid1 bo auncsecl to and forni part of tlic said Coloiiy of Quecuslaiict Xow be it enactcd by tlic QLXXX’S Most Esccllent Majcsty by nncl with tlic advicc aiid coiisoiit of tlic Lcgislativc Council and Legislativc Asscnildy of Q~iccns- l m d i n Parliament asscniblcd ancl by tlic authority of tlic same as follo~vs-
Queensland s l ~ a l l by such proclamation ~iiidcr his hand ancl thc public ~roclt~ntntioli.
sc~il of thc colony as is authorisccl by tlic said lcttcrs patcnt mention and appoint for tlint 1mrposc tlic islands dcscribed in thc sclicdule hereto s l i d bc annexed to aiid bccomc part of the Colony of Quecns- laud aiicl shall be and bccomc subject t o thc 1 t L - w in forcc thcrciii.
‘;’1. Froiii and after such clay as IIis Exccllcncy thc Govcriior of ~ o v e l ? l o r to isuuc
SCIIEDULE.
C c r h i u islands in Torres Straits and lyiiig bctwecn thc Coatinelit of Australia niid Islaiirl of N o w Guinea that is to kay $1 islands included irithiu a h i e drawn from S:Liidy Cape Iiorthwtrd to thc south-eastern limit of Grcnt Barrier Reefs tlieucc folloiviiig t h e h e of tlir Great Barrier Heefs to their north-enstem extremity near the latitude of nine an:l a half clegrecs soutli thcuce in nuorth-mcsterly direction cmbmciiig Enst Auchor ancl Bramble C’njs tlicuce froin 13r~iiiblc C n p i n n line west Ly south (south seventy-nine degrees west) t r u c euibrncing T w r i o r ltecf Snibni ant1 ‘L’Liaii Islnudv tlience ciivergiiig iu a north-wcstcrly dircctioii so as to embrncc the group kuown LIS the Talbot Islaucls tlicuce to a i d embrnciiig tlie Deliverancc Ishiids nud onwnrcls in n west by south directioii (truc) to the meridian of one huiidrcd aiitl thirty-ciglit degrees of cast longitude.
