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on an Ordinance intituled an Ordinance to amend the Deportation Ordinances, 1912 - 1914.
The Right Honourable Secretary of State signified his ap- proval of the introduction of this Ordinance in His despatch of
the 1st October, 1915.
The alterationg referred to in that despatch has been made. Three other amendments were made in the bill in the commit-
tee stage.
In section 2 (1)(a), the words "whatever the immediate or
ultimate destination of the said ship" were added.
This was done in order to make it clear that the Governor is to have power;
It was
to choose the ship irrespective of its destination.
thought that a deportee might argue on the paragraph as originally
drafted that he had a right to choose the destination and that
the Governor had only the right of selection among ships leaving
for that destination.
The following proviso was added at the end of sub-section
(1) of Section 2.:-
Provided that where extradition proceedings have
been previously taken against any such person, and
the said proceedings have resulted in the discharge
of such person either by a magistrate or by the
Supreme Court on habeas corpus nothing in this
sub-section shall be construed as empowering the
Governor to order such person to leave the Colony
by any ship the immediate destination of which is
a place in the state by which the surrender of such
person was demanded.
It was thought advisable to insert this proviso as a matter of
form, though it cannot be imagined that a person whose surrender
had been demanded by a foreign state, but who had obtained his
discharge in the extradition proceedings, should be surrendered
!