The Colonial Naval Defence Act, 1865
WHEREAS it is expedient to enable the several Colonial Possessions of Her Majesty the Queen to make better Provision for Naval Defence, and to that end to provide and man Vessels of War, and also to raise a Volunteer Force to form Part of the Royal Naval Reserve established under the Act of Parliament of 1859 "for the Establishment of a Reserve Volunteer Force of Seamen, and for the Government of the same," (hereafter in this Act called the Act of 1859,) and accordingly to be available for ge...