that the principle of the Bill was endorsed by all the Unofficial 
Members, both by those of the Colony and those of the Protectorate. 
Two of the Elected Members, indeed, raised the issue of compen- 
sation, but received no support in this respect from any of the 
Paramount Chiefs or from the other African Unofficial Member 
present, the Honourable Mr. Songo Davies. 
I am confident that His Majesty will not be advised to exercise 
his powers of disallowance in respect of this Ordinance, which 
will, I trust, be found to complete the measures that have been 
enacted for the abolition of slavery in the Protectorate of Sierra 
Leone. 
I have, ete. 
H.C. LUKE, 
Acting Governor. 
Date of 
‘ommence- 
nent, 
Short title, 
pplication 
nd com- 
nencement, 
4 bolition of 
egal status 
of slavery. 
Amendment 
wf Cap. 167. 
lepeal of 
ections 5 
nd 7 of 
Jap. 167. 
Enclosure 1 in No. 19. 
LBeAL 8TATUS OF SLAVERY (ABOLITION) ORDINANCE, 1927. 
COLONY OF SIERRA LEONE. 
No. 24 of 1927. 
In His Majesty's name I assent to this Ordinance 
this twenty-second day of September, 1927. 
H. C. LUKE, 
Acting Governor. 
An Ordinance to Abolish the Legal Status of Slavery in the 
Protectorate. 
(L.3.) 
(1st January, 1928.) 
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 Legal Status of Slavery 
(Abolition) Ordinance, 1927; it shall apply to the Protectorate, and 
shall come into operation on the first day of January, 1928. 
2. The legal status of slavery is hereby declared to be abolished 
throughout the Protectorate 
3. For the heading to Part II of the Protectorate Ordinance, 
1924, namely ‘‘ Slave Dealing, etc.’’ there shall be substituted the 
heading ‘* Dealing in Persons. etc.’ 
4. Sections five and seven of the Protectorate Ordinance, 1924 
are hereby repealed.