ORDINANCE of the Government of British Guiana to amend "The Immigration Ordinance, 1891.'

[No. 31.]

I assent,

C. CLEMENTI,

[December 30, 1916.]

The Officer administering the Government. December 29, 1916.

BE it enacted by the Governor of British Guiana, with the advice and consent of the Court of Policy thereof, as follows:

1. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Immigration Ordinance, 1891, Amendment Ordinance, 1916," and shall be read and construed as one with "The Immigration Ordinance, 1891," hereafter called the Principal Ordinance, and with any Ordinance amending the Principal Ordinance.

2.-(1.) Subject to the provisions of "The Summary Conviction Offences (Procedure) Ordinance, 1893," no sentence of imprisonment shall be inflicted upon any indentured immigrant under sections 105, 108, 109, 111 (3.) 112, and 124 of the Principal Ordinance, and the maximum penalty under sections 105, 108, 109, and 124 shall be 2 dol. 40 c. for first offences.

(2.) Penalties inflicted under the sections mentioned in the preceding sub-section shall be payable by weekly instalments not exceeding one-third of the average weekly wage of the indentured immigrant, the first instalment to be payable at the expiry of a week from the other. In case of failure to pay any instalment the entire amount shall be recoverable in the first instance by distress.

3. Section 122 of the Principal Ordinance shall be read and construed as if the word "may" were inserted instead of "shall” in the fourth line of sub-section (1.) thereof, and as if the following sub-section were added as sub-section (4.):-

"(4.) Every manager who does not prefer a charge before a Magistrate against a deserter shall report the fact of the desertion to the agent of the district."

4. Section 123 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby amended by the insertion of the word "deserted" in the third line of sub-section (1.) of the words: "or report the fact of the desertion to the immigration agent, as the case may be," and by the insertion after the word "desertion" in the last line of subsection (2.) of the words: "or reported the fact of such desertion to the immigration agent of the district."

5. Section 127 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby repealed, and the following section shall be substituted therefor :

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127. The Immigration Agent-General or any other immigration agent may cause to be detained any immigrant who is suspected by him to be a deserter or absent from his plantation without leave, or who refuses to return to his plantation when ordered to do so by the Immigration Agent-General or immigration agent; and any such immigrant shall if in Georgetown to be taken to the immigration depôt, or if elsewhere than in Georgetown to an immigration agent, or if the immigrant is detained at night to the nearest police station."

6. Section 134 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby repealed.

CANADIAN ORDER IN COUNCIL regulating Foreign Voyages of Steamers on the Canadian Register.Ottawa, March 11, 1916.

At the Government House at Ottawa, Saturday, the 11th day of March, 1916.

PRESENT: HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE

COUNCIL.

GOVERNOR-GENERAL

IN

WHEREAS His Majesty's Government, holding that such action was essential to the defence and protection of the realm, passed an Order in Council on the 10th November, 1915,* prohibiting British registered steamships exceeding 500 tons gross tonnage. from engaging in voyages from one foreign port to another foreign port as from the 1st day of December, 1915, unless the owner or charterers of such steamships had been granted a licence to so trade;

And whereas the aforesaid Order in Council authorised and directed the President of the Board of Trade to appoint persons to carry out and give effect to the provisions of the Order and to grant licences where and when desirable;

And whereas the said Order in Council of the 10th November, 1915, was supplemented by an Order in Council of the 15th February, 1916,† prohibiting British registered steamships in excess of 500 tons gross tonnage, except those engaged in the coasting trade of the United Kingdom, from proceeding on any voyage unless a licence as provided for by the Order in Council of the 10th November, 1915, has issued;

And whereas there are on the Canadian register upwards of 300 steamers with a gross tonnage of over 500 tons, and these vessels or any number of them may engage without interference in voyages between one foreign port and another foreign port or between a port in Canada and a foreign port, or vice versâ ;

And whereas it is deemed desirable that, in the circumstances, Canadian registered steamers should not engage in voyages from one foreign port to another foreign port or from a port in Canada to a port in a foreign country, and vice versâ, except voyages from a port in Canada to a port in the United States of America, and vice versâ, without the knowledge or consent of the Government :

Therefore, His Royal Highness the Governor-General in Council is pleased to order, and it is hereby ordered, as fol

lows:

(a.) All Canadian registered steamers whose gross tonnage exceeds 500 tons are, as from the 1st day of April, 1916, prohibited from proceeding on any voyage excepting voyages from a port in Canada to another port in Canada and from a port in Canada to a port in the United States, and vice versâ, unless a licence to do so has been granted to or in favour of the owners or charterers of such steamships.

(b.) The Minister of Marine and Fisheries is hereby authorised and directed to appoint a Committee of persons that shall have power to grant the licences required by the next preceding paragraph, which may be general in reference to classes of ships or their voyages, or special.

(c.) The Minister of Marine and Fisheries is authorised from time to time, should necessity appear therefor, to add other persons as members of such Committee, and to substitute as members thereof other persons for such members as may from time to time die, resign, or become incapable of acting thereon.

His Royal Highness the Governor-General in Council, under and in virtue of the provisions of section 8 of "The War Measures Act, 1914,' is further pleased to order, and it is hereby ordered, that all steamships failing or refusing to obtain a licence as provided in the preceding sections hereof shall be subject to forfeiture.

RODOLPHE BOUDREAU,

Clerk of the Privy Council.

ACT of the Government of Canada to amend "The White Phosphorus Matches Act, 1914" (4 & 5 Geo. V., c.

12).

*

[6 & 7 Geo. V, c. 4.]

[Assented to March 23, 1916.]

:

His Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows :1. Section 13 of "The White Phosphorus Matches Act," chapter 12, of the statutes of 1914, is repealed and the following is substituted therefor :

13. This Act shall come into force on the 1st day of January, 1915, except section 5 thereof, which shall not come into force until the 1st day of July, 1916: Provided, however, that the provision in the said section forbidding the use of any matches made with white phosphorus shall not come into force until the 1st day of January, 1917."

2. The provisions of this Act shall be held to have come into force on, from, and after the 1st day of January, 1916.

ORDINANCE of the Government of Ceylon to amend "The Opium Ordinance, 1910."+

[No. 40.]

JOHN ANDERSON.

[December 14, 1916.]

WHEREAS it is expedient to amend The Opium Ordinance, 1910" Be it therefore enacted by the Governor of Ceylon, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:

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1. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Opium (Amendment) Ordinance, No. 40, of 1916.”

2. In sub-section (1) of section 13 of the Principal Ordinance, after the words " registered consumer, there shall be inserted the words "or any other person.

Passed in Council the 29th day of November, 1916.

A. G. CLAYTON, Clerk to the Council. Assented to by his Excellency the Governor the 14th day

of December, 1916.

R. E. STUBBS, Colonial Secretary.

* Vol. CVII, page 414.

† Vol. CIV, page 396.

342 GREAT BRITAIN (Federated Malay States).

ENACTMENT of the Government of the Federated Malay States to amend "The Fugitive Offenders Enactment, 1915."

[No. 5.]

ARTHUR YOUNG,

President of the Federal Council.

[April 7, 1916.]

Ir is hereby enacted by the Rulers of the Federated Malay States in Council as follows:

1.—(i.) This Enactment may be cited as "The Fugitive Offenders Enactment, 1915, Amendment Enactment, 1916,” and shall come into force on the publication thereof in the "Gazette."

(ii.) This Enactment shall be read and construed as one with "The Fugitive Offenders Enactment, 1915," hereinafter called the "Principal Enactment," and any copies of the Principal Enactment printed after the commencement of this Enactment may be printed with the amendments made by this Enact

ment.

2. Section 2 of the Principal Enactment is amended by deleting from lines 3 and 4 of the interpretation of "The Imperial Act" the words " as amended by The Fugitive Offenders (Protected States) Act, 1915,'" and by inserting immediately after the word "made" in line 5 of the said interpretation the words "in pursuance of 'The Fugitive Offenders (Protected States) Act, 1915.''

3. Section 8 of the Principal Enactment is amended by deleting from line 2 the words "section 10" and substituting therefor the words "section 7."

ACCESSION of the States of Johore, Kedah, Perlis, Kelantan, and Trengganu to the Extradition Treaty between Great Britain and Siam of March 4, 1911.October 28, 1916.‡

1.-His Majesty's Minister at Bangkok to the Siamese Minister for Foreign Affairs.

M. LE MINISTRE,

Bangkok, October 25, 1916. I HAVE the honour, under instructions from His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, to inform + Vol. CIX, page 3. Treaty Series, No. 3 (1917).

* Vol. CIX, page 448.