bo) 
marks another instance of the traditional determination of His 
Majesty's Government to abolish all form of servitude throughout 
the British dominions. 
7. I enclose a copy of an instruction* that is being issued to 
Provincial Commissioners. 
I have, etec., 
A. R. SLATER, 
(Lovernor. 
Enclosure 1 in No. 6. 
PROTECTORATE (No. 2) (AMENDMENT) ORDINANCE, 1926. 
COLONY OF SIERRA LEONE. 
No. 9 or 1926. 
In His Majesty's Name I assent to this Ordinance 
this second day of April, 1926. 
A. R. SLATER, 
Governor. 
An Ordinance to Amend the Protectorate Ordinance, 1924. 
(14th April, 1926.) 
Be IT ENACTED by the Governor of the Colony of Sierra Leone 
with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, 
as follows :— 
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Protectorate (No. 2) Short title 
(Amendment) Ordinance, 1926. 
9. Section six of the Protectorate Ordinance, 1924, shall be re- 
pealed and the following section shall be substituted therefor :— 
8 After the commencement of this Ordinance 
Substitutic 
of a new 
section for 
Cap. 167 
section 6. 
Persons 
declared 
free. 
““ (1) All persons born or brought into the Protectorate 
are hereby declared to be free. 
““ (2) All persons treated as slaves or held in any manner 
of servitude shall be and become free on the death of their 
master or owner. 
“ (8) No claim for or in respect of any slave shall be 
entertained by any of the Courts of the Protectorate.” 
Passed in the Legislative Council this twenty-ninth day of March, 
in the vear of our Lord One thousand nine hundred and twenty-six. 
J. L. Jo=N, 
Clerk of Legislative Council. 
Claims 
relating tt 
slaves not 
to be 
entertaine: 
* Enclosure 5.