Colonial Constitutions - An Outline of the Constitutional History and Existing Government of the British Dependencies; With Schedules of the Orders in Council, Statutes and Parliamentary Documents Relating to Each Dependency #250314

The territories, for instance, of the East India, and Hudson's Bay Companies, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islands, though they may not fall Within any of the ordinary definitions of Colonies are yet manifestly Dependencies, by the omission of which any enumeration of the subject Provinces of Great Britain would be rendered incomplete. The same may be said of the Ionian Islands, (the protectorate of which involves the discharge of legislative and executive functions,) and of British Honduras, what e'ver may be the eventual interpretation of the treaty signed at Washington in 1850.