EN CLOSURE 2
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Report on Ordinance 19 of 1907.
I have examined the accompanying Ordinance, entitled
An Ordinance to amend The Probates Ordinance, 1337. (No. 8 of 1397)
and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the Governor's Instructions.
Objects and Reasons,
The object of this Ordinance is to carry out the instructions of the Secretary of State for the Colonies (C.O.D. General, dated 21st June, 1901,) as to the amendment of our local Probate Law for the purpose of embodying the provisions of Article 3 of the Convention between the United Kingdom and the United States of America, relative to the disposal of real and personal property, to which Convention this Colony has adhered.
The Articles of the Convention in question, which was signed at Washington on the 2nd March, 1899, and the ratifications of which were exchanged at Washington on the 28th July, 1900, run as follows:-