NIMIS ErikaLivre Rare Book
Ordinances An Orders and Rules Thereunder In Force in the Colony.
1894512341894. London: Stevens and Sons 1894. 1 volume. London: Stevens and Sons 1894. 1 volume. Scarce 1894 Compilation of Lagos Ordinances Nigeria. Stallard George Compiler. Richards Edward Harrinson Compiler. Ordinances And Orders and Rules Thereunder In Force in the Colony of Lagos on December 31st 1893: With an Appendix Containing the Letters Patent Constituting the Colony And the Instructions Accompanying Them; Various Acts of Parliament; Orders of the Queen in Council; Treaties and Proclamations. Compiled Under the Authority of the Government. London: Stevens and Sons 1894. xvi 1011 pp. Octavo 9-1/2" x 6". Recent cloth gilt title to spine endpapers renewed internally clean. Ex-library. Small stamp to title page. A nice copy of a scarce title. $250. Only edition. Lagos a region of present-day Nigeria was one of the principal centers of the slave trade. Great Britain took control of Lagos in 1861 and established it as a colony in the following year. In 1866 it became a portion of the West African Settlements subject to the Governor-in-Chief of Sierra Leone. In 1874 it was added to the Gold Coast Colony but became a separate colony in 1886. In 1906 it was amalgamated with the Protectorate of Southern Nigeria. This was the second compilation of Lagos ordinances. The other two were published in 1874 and 1902. OCLC locates 7 copies. Sweet & Maxwell A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 7:182. unknown books
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