No. 12.
Telegram from the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the Officer
Administering the Government of Sierra Leone.
(Sent 2nd September, 1927.)
Your telegram 81st August.* Slavery. I consider special earlier
sitting should be held.—SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES.
No. 18.
Telegram from the Officer Administering the Government of Sierra
Leone to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
(Dated 6th September, 1927.)
[Answered by No. 14.]
Your telegram of 2nd Septembert and in continuation of mj
telegram of 31st August,} on the subject of Slavery. The new Bill
contains three clauses. First clause provides that Ordinance shall
come into force from 1st January, 1928, or 1st January, 1929, as
Provincial Commissioners, all of whose recommendations not yet
to hand, advise. Second clause is as follows :—The legal status
of slavery is hereby declared to be abolished throughout the Protec-
torate. Third clause repeals section 7 Cap. 167. With reference
to Colonial Regulation 173, request you will telegraph urgently
your approval of the object and reasons to append to the Bill when
gazetted, including the following passage. Begins: The Secretary
of State moreover has informed the Government that the cases
to which reference has been made have revealed deficiencies in the
law of the Protectorate relating to slavery which he is unable fo
defend and he has requested that a new Ordinance should be
introduced at a specially summoned meeting of the Legislative
Council : Ends. T propose that the Bill be introduced into the
Legislative Council on 15th September and pass its final stage on
20nd Sentember. — LUKE.
No 14.
Telegram from the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the Officer
Administering the Government of Sterra Leone.
(Sent 8th September, 1927.)
[Answered by No. 15.]
Your telegram 6th September.§ It is suggested to me that from
legal point of view it would be desirable in order to prevent any
possible confusion for Ordinance No. 9 of 1926 to be repealed as
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