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BILL ENTITLED AN ORDINANCE TO REGULATE THE CARRYING AND POSSESSION OF ARMS.-On the motion of the Acting Attorney General, seconded by the Acting Colonial Secretary, the Council went into Committee on this Bill.
Progress reported, clauses 8 and 9 being postponed for further consideration.
BILL ENTITLED THE CATTLE AND MARKETS ORDINANCE. The Acting Attorney General informed the Council that, owing to several changes in this Bill, it was necessary to substitute a new Bill for the one now before the Council. He therefore moved that this Bill be expunged from the Order of the Day.
Question-put and passed.
BILL ENTITLED AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE LAW RESPECTING DEFAMATORY WORDS AND LIBEL.-On the motion of the Acting Attorney General, seconded by the Acting Colonial Secretary, this Bill was read a third time.
Question put-that this Bill do pass.
Bill passed, and numbered as Ordinance No. 5 of 1887.
POSTPONEMENT OF THE OTHER ORDERS OF THE DAY. On the motion of the Acting Attorney General, the other Orders of the Day were postponed.
ADJOURNMENT.-The Council was then adjourned to Friday, the 18th instant, at 4 P.M.
Read and confirmed, this 18th day of February, 1887.
ARATHOON SETH,
Clerk of Councils.
W. H. MARSH, Administering the Government.