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Letters Patent Constitution

When: 4 February 1867
Where: Jurisdiction of the Straits Settlements
Part of: Singapore becomes a Crown colony under the Colonial Office

Letters patent granted the Straits Settlements a colonial constitution prior to the formal transfer.

Earlier, on 4 February 1867, letters patent had granted the settlements a colonial constitution. This legal framework preceded the administrative transfer to the Colonial Office on 1 April 1867. The cited passage names no specific locality for the grant, so the episode is not tied to a particular place.

Sources

Straits Settlements Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-29

Machine-drafted from the cited Wikipedia passages and checked by a reviewing model, not by a human editor. Every passage cites the revision it was written from; dates and places follow those passages.