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FIRST COLUMN. Ordinance to be amended and item thereof.

3. Promissory Oaths Ordinance, 1869. (No. 1 of 1869.) -Contd.

Oath of

SECOND COLUMN,

Detail of amendment or repeal.

oach upon previous appointment to the same office in the Colony, shall also take the official oath relating to the discharge of his duties in such office as soon as may be after his acceptance of office.

(3) The said oaths shall be tendered by the Governor, or other person lawfully presiding.

4. A member of the Legislative Coun- Legislative cil, unless he shall have taken such oath Councillor.

(2) Sections 13

and 14- (3) Schedule.

Oaths of Clerk and Deputy Clerk of Councils.

Con-

BON-

upon previous appointment to Legislative Council or to Executive Council in the Colony, shall take the oath of allegiance, and the same shall be tendered by the Governor, or other person lawfully presi- ding.

5. () The Clerk of Councils and the Deputy Clerk of Councils shall each take the oath of allegiance and an oath of secrecy, unless such officer shall have taken such oaths upon previous appointment as Clerk of Councils or Deputy Clerk of Councils in the Colony.

(2) The said oaths shall be tendered by the Colonial Secretary.

6. If any person declines or neglects, sequence of when any oath required to be taken by him compliance. under this Ordinance is duly tendered, to take such oath, he shall, if he has already entered on his office, vacate the same, and, if he has not entered on his office, be dis- qualified from entering on the same.

Forms of

oath. Second

Schedule.

7. The oaths to be taken hereunder shall be in the form prescribed in the Second Schedule."

(a) Sections 13 and 14 are renumbered as sections

8 and 9.

(3) The Schedule is amended--

FIRST COLUMN,

Ordinance to be amended and item thereof.

2. Promissory Oaths Ordinance, 1869. (No. 1 of 1869-)

-Contd.

(4) Second

Schedule.

SECOND COLUMN.

Detail of amendment or repeal.

(a) by the repeal of Part 1;

(b) by the deletion of the words "Part 11"; (c) by the deletion of the word "SCHEDULE" at the head thereof and the substitution therefor of the following-

"FIRST SCHEDULE. [S. 2.]" (4) The following is added after the First

Schedule-

I,

"SECOND SCHEDULE.

The Oath of Allegiance.

"

[SS. 2. 3. 4. 5. 7.] do swear that I will

be faithful and bear truc allegiance to His Majesty King George the Sixth, His Heirs and Successors, according to law. So help me God.

I

The Judicial Oath.

1

[ss. 3, 7.]

du swear that I will well and truly serve Our Sovereign Lord King George the Sixth in the office of

and 1 will do right to all manner of people after the laws and usages of this Colony, without fear or favour, affection or ill will. So help me God.

The Oath of Fidelity. [ss. 3. 7-]

being chosen and admitted of His Majesty's Executive Council in this Colony, do swear that I will, to the best of my judgment, at all times when thereto required, freely give my counsel and advice to the Governor, ar Officer Administering the Government of this Colony for the time being, for the good manage, ment of the public affairs of this Colony; that I will not directly or indirectly reveal such matters as shall be debated in Council and committed to my secrecy, but that I will in all things be a true and faithful Councillor. So help me God.