islands, such as Pitcairn Islandand Redonda,
which are so small that they do not call for notice,
and a number of territories like those of the
British North Borneo Company, which fall under
the control of the Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs and cannot rightly be included in a list of
British colonies.

It may be well, before proceeding to an ex-
amination of the forms of government in force in
the British tropical colonies, to define in a general
way the functions of a subordinate government
and the limitations involved in subordination to
a sovereign government.

Sir George Cornewall Lewisin his work "On
the Government of Dependencies" defines a subor-
dinate government as one "which acts by dele-
gated powers, but which possesses powers applicable
to every purpose of government, which is complete
in all its parts, and would be capable of governing
the district subject to it, if the interference of the
supreme government with its proceedings were
altogether withdrawn." He says further: " A sub-
ordinate government resembles a sovereign govern-
ment in this: that it is completely organized, and
possesses all the institutions requisite for the per-
formance of the several functions which are proper
to a government. It differs from a sovereign gov-

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