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CO129-582-2 Vagrancy Amendment Ordinance 1939 1-5-1939 - 19-12-1939 — Page 2

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1.5.39

Considers amending Vagrancy Ordinance, 1897 +

21|| (requests approval.

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Lebrasy g Prev. ordre på.

Under the present Emergency Regs, the police

have the power to send

away from the Colony

any

alien who tras no

regular employment.

an amendment to

The God. now

the 1897

suggests

Vagrancy Order. Which and stain this

power of removing destitutes who are workelers from

the Colony w make it dependent upon

an Order

of

a Court of Justice.

The

curgency regulation

would then be withdrawn

on the understanding

that it could be reintroduced.

I necessary.

jhn would, I thinks, be no objections to

the fentro duchan

of

such

a

provision into the

Vagrancy

Orda.

? Appon the intoduction

on the lines contemplated.

of

A. N. Saloworthy

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