CO129-298 - Governor Sir Blake Administrator Major Gen Gascoigne - 1900 [3-4] — Page 484

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board not being exempted

persons, shall be deemed

to have possession of them in

colin veators

of the Dedenance &

be liable to the penalties which

the Ordinance

Seeking

prescribes.

This which is pinibar

to the provision. I presume thine.

this Section. which is practically

a reenactment of Section 7 of

Ord: 8 of 1895, was enacted

with

G

view to checking piratical

outinger by persons pretending to

be ordinary passengers of which, I understand,

there have been several instances;

but, though I entirely agrupathise

with the object of

provision

theas

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Quactinent I have to point

outh

that's

as the Section stands, it

would render every passenger

& meulber

of

the

creur ow

bound the vernal liable to

punishment, ever though they

were

bona

fide

cordedly unaware

of

arms

travellers

of the presence

of ammunition our

board. The Section should

therefore be amended

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obviate this objection.

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§ Ishall be glad

to be

report

farmished with a

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