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ATTORNEY. GENERAL'S OPPICE,

1st. June, 1900.

Report on Ordinance No.14 of 1900.

I have examined the accompanying Ordinance entitled

An Ordinance to further amend The Protection

of Women and Girls Ordinance, 1997, and tọ

repeal two Sections of The Protection of

Women and Girls Amendment Ordinance, 1899,

and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is

not, contrary to the Governor's Instructions.

See Dispatches No. 281984 Dic 1899 and 43 $ 18rk Barch 1900.

The object of this Ordinance is to make certain amend- ments in the Ordinances relating to the Protection of Women and Girls directed to be inade by the Secretary of State. It seemed to me that the amendments of sections 3

and 9 of Ordinance No. 31 of 1899, so directed to be made, could be effected most conveniently and simply by repealing those sections altogether, and substituting directly, in Ordinance No. 31 of 1897, amended sections containing the amendments desired; for sections 3 and 9 of Ordinance No. 31 of 1999 were, themselves, merely sections amend- ing the Protection of Women and Girls' Ordinance, 1897, and the amendment of amending sections sometimes tends to confusion. The only actual alterations in the law effected by this Ordinance are the addition of sub-section (3) of section 2 to the previous two sub-sections, and the insertion of the words "generally or specially authorized instead of the words "generally authorized," in the substituted section 30, set out in section 3.

All the rest of this Ordinance is simply a re-enactment of existing law,

(Sd.) W.Meigh Goodman,

Attorney Genaral.