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possible confusion for Ordinance No. 9 of 1926 to be repealed as 
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