It confirmed that colonial legislation was to have full effect within the colony, limited only to the extent that it was not in contradiction with ( " repugnant to " ) any Imperial Act which extended to that colony.
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Saint-Domingue's free people of color, the " gens de couleur ", numbered more than 28, 000 by 1789 . Around that time, colonial legislations, concerned with this growing and strengthening population, passed discriminatory laws that visibly differentiated these freedmen by dictating their clothing and where they could live.
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Vane's legacy from his time in the New World includes the colonial legislation appropriating ?00 for the establishment of an institute of higher learning now known as Harvard University, and his support of Roger Williams in the acquisition of Aquidneck Island from the local Indians that resulted in the formal beginnings of Rhode Island.
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But it was not until Thursday that Tung Chee-hwa, a tough-talking former shipping tycoon chosen by Beijing to be chief executive of Hong Kong when Britain hands over the colony on July 1, declared his support for China's intentions, which include reinstating colonial legislation restricting protests and requiring official approval to set up political organizations.
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They also provide a tangible research tool for historians to explore the culture and politics of the Europeans and Chinese in Australia, which has alluded to : & contradictions to the omnipresent anti-Chinese attitudes in late nineteenth century Australia that manifested themselves in the Lambing Flat riots and racists colonial legislation and the acceptance and assimilation of Chinese families in many regional communities.
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Thus it confirmed that colonial legislation ( provided it had been passed in the proper manner ) was to have full effect within the colony, limited only to the extent that it was not in contradiction with ( " repugnant to " ) any Act of Parliament that contained powers which extended beyond the boundaries of the United Kingdom to include that colony.
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It was a policy which had already been stimulated in the former Estado Novo regime, headed by Ant�nio de Oliveira Salazar, the " Estatuto " established a distinction between the " colonial citizens ", subject to Portuguese law and entitled to citizenship rights and duties effective in the " metropole ", and the " indigenas " ( natives ), subject to both colonial legislation and their customary, tribal laws.
