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Objects and Reasons.

1. The object of clauses 2 and 4 of this Bill is to relieve the Governor from the obligation of personally attending to and signing memorials of re-entry under the principal Ordinance and also to dispense with the necessity for affixing the public seal to such memorials.

2. In future such memorials will be signed by the Colonial Secretary or by an Assistant Colonial Secretary authorised thereto by Command of the Governor.

3. Section 9 of the principal Ordinance, No. 4 of 1870, requires the signature of the Colonial Secretary to the memorandum of cancellation of memorials of re-entry whether such cancellation has been effected by Order of the Governor in Council or by Order of the Supreme Court under section 8. It is felt that the Clerk of Councils or the Registrar of the Supreme Court, as the case may be, are the appropriate officers to sign such memoranda. Clause 3 of this Bill amends section 9 of the principal Ordinance accordingly.

June, 1936.

C. G. ALABASTER,

Attorney General