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of any demand of rent or revenue, sell or cause to be sold any person, 
or the right to the compulsory labour or services of any person, on 
the ground that such persons is in a state of slavery. 
IT. And it is hereby declared and enacted, that no rights arising 
out of alleged property in the person and services of another as a 
slave shall be enforced by any civil or criminal court or magistrate 
within the territories of the East India Company. 
111. And it is hereby declared and enacted, that no person who 
may have acquired property by his own industry or by the exercise 
of any art, calling, or profession, or by inheritance, assignment, 
gift, or bequest shall be dispossessed of such property or prevented 
from taking possession thereof on the ground that such person or 
that the person from whom the property may have been derived 
was a slave. 
IV. And it is hereby enacted that any act which would be a penal 
offence if done to a free man shall be equally an offence if done to 
any person on the pretext of his being in a condition of slavery. 
No. 6. 
Despatch from the Governor of Sierra Leone to the Secretary of 
State for the Colonies. 
[Answered by No. 7.] 
GOVERNMENT HOUSE, 
FREETOWN, 
12th April, 1926. 
SIR, 
With reference to your despatch of the 7th September, 1925 * I 
have the honour to forward herewith, for the signification of His 
Majesty's pleasure, two copies of Ordinance No. 9 of 1926,1 together 
with the Attorney-General’s report! thereon. The Ordinance, 
though bearing the prosaic title of the ‘' Protectorate (No. 2) 
(Amendment) Ordinance, 1926,” is in effect an Ordinance to make 
further provision for putting an end to slavery in Sierra Leone. 
2. After consulting with the Attorney-General and the Provincial 
Commissioners, I was glad to give effect to the suggestion in para- 
graph 4 of your despatch, viz., to exclude all reference to the ¢‘ legal 
status of slavery.” 
3. The Bill so amended was gazetted on 11th December, 1925, 
and was read a first time on 8rd December, 1925. The second 
reading was deferred in order to give the Provincial Commissioners 
and the Paramount Chiefs Members of Council opportunity to 
explain its provisions to the Protectorate chiefs and people. As 
* Wo. 5. T Enclosure 1. 1 Enclosure 2.