the matter of Customs facilities or exemption from import duties to His Majesty's diplomatic and consular officers abroad, similar preferential treatment should be accorded throughout His Majesty's Dominions to the consular representatives of such foreign countries, except in cases in which the consular officer is engaged in any business or profession in the Colony for which he is appointed, and it is deemed expedient to enable such preferential treatment to be accorded in these Islands:

Be it therefore enacted by the Governor, Legislative Council, and Assembly of the Bermudas or Somers Islands, as follows:1.-(1.) Whenever the Governor shall be officially informed that any foreign country has accorded substantial privileges in the matter of Customs facilities, or exemption from import duties to His Majesty's diplomatic and consular officers in such country, or to their families, it shall be lawful for the Governor to direct that similar privileges shall be accorded to any consular representative of such country appointed to serve in that capacity in these Islands, or to his family.

(2.) The provisions of the preceding sub-section shall not apply to any consular representative of any such foreign country who is engaged in some other business or profession in these Islands.

2. Whenever, in order to give effect to the provisions of the first section of this Act, it shall become necessary to exempt from import duties any goods imported into these Islands by any such consular representative, or his family, it shall be lawful for the Governor to direct that such goods shall be exempt from import duty, and thereupon the same shall be exempt therefrom.

3. During the continuance of this Act, official supplies imported into these Islands for the use of the consulate of any foreign country into which similar supplies for the use of His Majesty's consulates are admitted free of import duty shall be exempt from import duty.

ORDINANCE of the Government of British Guiana to provide for the Regulation of Wireless Telegraphy.

[No. 7.]

[May 28, 1910.]

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

1. (1.) A person shall not establish any wireless telegraph station or instal or work any apparatus for wireless telegraphy in any place or on board any British ship registered in the Colony, except under and in accordance with a licence granted in that behalf by the Governor in Council.

(2.) A person shall not work any apparatus for wireless telegraphy installed on any merchant ship (whether British or foreign) whilst that ship is in the territorial waters of the

Colony, otherwise than in accordance with regulations made in that behalf by the Governor in Council, and the Governor in Council may by any such regulations impose penalties, recoverable summarily for the breach of any such regulations, not exceeding 50 dollars for each offence, and may provide for the forfeiture on any such breach of any apparatus for wireless telegraphy installed or worked on such ship.

(3.) If any person establishes a wireless telegraph station without a licence in that behalf, or instals or works any apparatus for wireless telegraphy without a licence in that behalf, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanour and be liable on summary conviction thereof to a penalty not exceeding 50 dollars, and, on conviction on indictment, to a fine not exceeding 500 dollars, or to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for a term not exceeding twelve months, and in either case be liable to forfeit any apparatus for wireless telegraphy installed or worked. without a licence.

(4.) If a justice of the peace is satisfied by information on oath that there is reasonable ground for supposing that a wireless telegraph station has been established without a licence in that behalf, or that any apparatus for wireless telegraphy has. been installed or worked in any place or on board any merchant ship within his jurisdiction without a licence in that behalf or contrary to the provisions of the regulations made under sub-section 2 of this section, he may grant a search warrant to any police officer or any officer appointed in that behalf by the Governor or the Postmaster-General and named in the warrant, and a warrant so granted shall authorize the officer named therein to enter and inspect the station, place, or ship and to seize any apparatus which appears to him to be used or intended to be used for wireless telegraphy therein.

(5.) The expression "wireless telegraphy" means any system of communication by telegraph without the aid of any wire connecting the points from and at which the messages or other communications are sent and received: Provided that nothing in this Ordinance shall prevent any person from making or using electrical apparatus for actuating machinery or for any purpose other than the transmission of messages.

2. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Wireless Telegraphy Ordinance, 1910."

ORDINANCE of the Government of British Guiana to Prohibit the Importation of Balata, Rubber, and other substances of a like nature from Venezuela into that Colony.

[No. 26.]

[January 7, 1911.]

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

1. Balata, rubber, and other substances of a like nature coming from Venezuela, whether grown or collected in Venezuela or not, are hereby prohibited to be imported or brought into this Colony, and such balata, rubber, and other substances shall be deemed to be goods prohibited to be imported in the same manner as if the same were enumerated and described in the table of prohibitions and restrictions inwards contained in the First Schedule to "The Customs Ordinance, 1884."

2. "The Customs (Balata Prohibition) Ordinance, 1907," is hereby repealed.

3. This Ordinance may be cited as The Customs (Venezuelan Balata and Rubber) Ordinance, 1910," and shall be read as one with "The Customs Ordinance, 1884."

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

[No. 5.]

I assent.

F. M. HODGSON, Governor.

[April 19, 1911.]

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

1. Notwithstanding anything contained in "The Immigration Ordinance, 1891," any immigrant born in this Colony may make a declaration in writing, signed by him in the presence of the Immigration Agent-General, or any Immigration Agent, to the effect that he desires that the provisions of the said Ordinance shall no longer apply to him. Such declaration may be in the form in the First Schedule hereto : Provided that the person who makes such declaration shall be not under 21 years of age and is able to read and write.

2. On the production of such declaration to the Immigration Agent-General, the person making the same shall be entitled to receive a certificate under the hand of the Immigration AgentGeneral in the form in the Second Schedule hereto, and thereupon "The Immigration Ordinance, 1891," shall cease to apply to such person and all his rights, duties, and liabilities under the said Ordinance shall cease and determine, and he shall no longer be deemed to be an immigrant within the meaning of the said Ordinance.

3. It shall not be necessary for the applicant for a certificate under the last preceding section to apply in person to the Immigration Agent-General, but it shall be sufficient if the

* Vol. XCIV, page 392.

application is made in writing and sent with the declaration by post or by any other person to the Immigration Agent-General.

4. Part X of "The Immigration Ordinance, 1891," shall not apply to any person who has received a certificate under this Ordinance, and from and after the date of such certificate he shall not be deemed to be an immigrant within the meaning of the said Part X: Provided that any marriage registered or contracted, or divorce pronounced, or any other matter or thing lawfully done under the said Part X before the date of the said certificate shall be valid and effectual for all purposes what

soever.

5. Notwithstanding anything contained in "The Immigration Ordinance, 1891," the said Ordinance shall not apply to any native of China or the descendant of any native of China.

6. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires, the words "Immigrant" and "Indenture" have the same meanings as in "The Immigration Ordinance, 1891."

7. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Immigration (Exemption) Ordinance, 1911."

SCHEDULES.

[Forms not printed.]

ORDINANCE of the Government of British Guiana to amend "The Immigration Ordinance, 1891,"* with respect to Deserters.

[No. 25.]

I assent.

CHARLES T. Cox, Acting Governor.

[November 11, 1911.]

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

1. Section 127 of "The Immigration Ordinance, 1891," is hereby repealed, and the following section shall be deemed to be inserted in the said Ordinance in lieu thereof :

127. (1.) Every police constable may, without warrant, stop any immigrant whom he may have reasonable cause to suspect of being absent from his plantation without leave, and may require him to show his certificate of exemption from labour or a pass signed by his employer.

(2.) If the immigrant does not produce any such certificate or pass, the police constable may thereupon take him into custody and carry him, if in Georgetown, to the Immigration

* Vol. XCIV, page 392.

Agent-General, or, if elsewhere than in Georgetown, to the Immigration Agent, or if the immigrant is arrested in the night, to the nearest police station, and if the immigrant is ascertained to be under indenture to any employer, the police constable shall communicate with the employer, and the immigrant shall be detained in custody until he can be charged before the Magistrate of the district in which his plantation is situate, or until he gives security for his appearance to answer such charge: Provided that, if the employer so requires, the police constable shall cause the immigrant to be reconducted to his plantation: Provided also that the Immigration Agent-General or any Immigration Agent may, without warrant, place in custody any immigrant who is known or 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 an Immigration Agent; and any such immigrant shall be dealt with in the same manner as an immigrant who is taken into custody and brought to the Immigration Agent-General or to an Immigration Agent by a police constable under this section.

2. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Immigration (Desertion) Ordinance, 1911."

ORDINANCE of the Government of British Honduras to provide for the Expulsion from the Colony of Undesirable

Aliens.

[No. 17.]

[April 28, 1910.]

Be it enacted by the Governor of British Honduras, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof :

1. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Undesirable Aliens Expulsion Ordinance, 1910."

2.-(1.) The Governor may, if he thinks fit, make an order (in this Ordinance referred to as an expulsion order) requiring an alien to leave the Colony within a time fixed by the order, and thereafter to remain out of the Colony :

(a.) If it is certified to him by any Court in the Colony (including a Court of Summary Jurisdiction) that the alien has been convicted by such Court of any felony or misdemeanour or other offence for which such Court has power to impose imprisonment without the option of a fine, and that the Court recommend that an expulsion order should be made in his case, either in addition to or in lieu of his sentence; and

(b.) If it is certified to him by a District Commissioner and at least one Justice of the Peace after proceedings taken for the purpose, that it is expedient for the preservation of the peace