The Straits Settlements Act 1866
BE IT ENACTED by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows: WHEREAS the Islands and Territories known as the "Straits Settlements," namely, Prince of Wales' Island, the Island of Singapore, and the Town and Fort of Malacca, and their Dependencies, were heretofore Part of the Territories in the Possession and under the Government of t...