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In August 1895 an Order-in-Council was issued in Britain authorising the Colony to make laws for the territory around it, extending out to the agreed-upon boundary ( which corresponds closely to that of present-day Sierra Leone ).

On 31 August 1896 a Proclamation was issued in the Colony declaring that territory to be a British " Protectorate ".

The Colony remained a distinct political entity ; the Protectorate was governed from it.