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LAW OF LIBEL AMENDMENT BILL.-The Attorney General moved the first reading of a Bill entitled An Ordinance to amend the Law of Libel and Slander.

The Colonial Secretary seconded. Question-put and agreed to.

Bill read a first time.

LAW AMENDMENT BILL.-The Attorney General moved the third reading of the Bill entitled An Ordinance to amend and declare in certain respects the Law to be administered in the Supreme Court. He added that he had submitted to the Clerk of Councils the Report of the Standing Law Committee on the Bill, who had made no alterations in it.

The Colonial Secretary seconded.

Question-put and agreed to.

Bill read a third time.

Question put-that this Bill do pass.

Bill passed.

CODE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE BILL.-The Attorney General informed the Council that the Standing Law Committee have been through the Bill entitled An Ordinance to establish a Code of Procedure for the Regulation of the Process, Practice, and Mode of Pleading in the Civil Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the Colony, and moved its third reading.

The Colonial Secretary seconded.

Question-put and agreed to.

Dill read a third time.

Question put-that this Bill do pass.

Bill passed.

CIVIL PROCEDURE (STATUTES REPEAL) BILL.-The Attorney General moved the third reading of the Bill entitled An Ordinance to repeal various Statutes relating to Civil Procedure or Matters connected therewith.

The Colonial Secretary seconded.

Question-put and agreed to.

Bill read a third time.

Question put--that this Bill do pass.

Bill passed.

ADJOURNMENT.--The Council then adjourned till Monday, the 25th February, 1901, at 3 p.m.

Read and confirmed, this 25th day of February, 1901.

R. F. JOHNSTON,

Acting Clerk of Councils.

HENRY A. BLAKE,

Governor..