5. Whosoever shall aid, assist, counsel, request, order or procure Accessories to any person to commit the offence of slave dealing shall be deemed be deemed guilty of and be guilty of slave dealing, and may be tried and convicted principal either as an accessory before the fact to the principal offence or offence, may after the conviction of the principal offender, or may be indicted be tried with principal and convicted of the substantive offence, whether the principal offender or offender shall or shall not have been previously convicted or shall separately. or shall not be amenable to justice. which 6. Every offence of slave dealing may be inquired of, tried, Courts in determined and dealt with by any Court having within the Colony offences may or the Protected Territories competent jurisdiction to try crimes be tried. and offences: Declaring that the term Court for the purposes of this Ordinance shall include the Courts of such native Kings and Chiefs only as the Governor may by his commission authorize either specially to try the offence of slave dealing or generally to try crimes and offences. on conviction. 7. Whosoever shall be convicted of slave dealing, shall be liable Punishment to be punished by imprisonment with or without hard labour for a period which may extend to Seven years, and shall also be liable to be fined either in addition to, or in substitution for such imprisonment; and where any fine shall have been imposed, such fine shall be recoverable by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of the party convicted, and in default of sufficient distress, or, without proceeding by distress in case the Court pronouncing sentence shall so order, by imprisonment with or without hard labour for any term not exceeding Two years, unless such fine shall be sooner paid. the pro 8. Every person who as a slave or otherwise shall be brought or Persons induced to come within the Colony or Protected Territories, so, or brought into in order that such person should be dealt or traded in, sold, tectorate for purchased, bartered, transferred, or taken, or should become or be a slave-dealing slave or be placed in servitude or transferred as a pledge or security purposes to be ipso facto for debt, shall become, and be, and is hereby declared to be a free free. person. contracts void. 9. Every present contract in which it is stipulated or agreed that Slave-dealing any person shall be bought or sold, or placed in servitude, or be transferred either as a pledge or security for debt, or in any other way, shall so far as regards any such stipulation or agreement, be, and is hereby declared to be wholly and in every particular null and void, and every future contract which shall contain any such stipulation or agreement shall be absolutely illegal. 10. This Ordinance shall be sufficiently cited for all purposes as Short title. the "Slave Dealing Ordinance, 1874." No. 3.-1874. AN ORDINANCE to make provision relative to the fees for matters connected with shipping. [13th February 1874. Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Council of the Colony of Lagos as follows: 1. It shall be lawful for the Chief Officer of Customs to demand and receive the fees mentioned in the Schedules A & B hereunto annexed. 2. It shall be lawful for the Superintendent of the survey and admeasurement of ships to demand and receive from the owner, master, or commander of any ship or vessel admeasured by him, the fees mentioned in the Schedule C hereto annexed. 3. All fees to be received by the Chief Officer of Customs, under Section 1 of this Ordinance, shall be paid into the public treasury, to be carried to the public account of the Colony. (3 of 1874, s. 4.) 4. The Acts of the Imperial Parliament intituled "The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854," and the "Merchant Shipping Act Amendment Act, 1862," shall, so far as the provisions thereof relate to the matters and things in this Ordinance provided for, and are not inconsistent therewith, be applicable thereto, and be read together with this Ordinance as forming one Ordinance, and be intituled "The Shipping Fees Ordinance 1874." (3 of 1874, s. 6.) A.-SCALE OF FEES FOR CHIEF OFFICER OF CUSTOMS AS For registering a ship and granting a certificate of £ For each form of bill of sale or mortgage issued For indorsing the names of owners upon certificate of 0 5 0 . 01 0 006 020 For indorsing the names of owners upon certificate of 020 For each entry in the registry book relating to transfer 0 1 0 For each entry in the registry book relating to mortgage 0 2 registry to another port For granting a certificate of mortgage or sale 20 For sales or mortgages made before registrar under cer- For each certified copy of documents under 107th section For inspection of the registry book B.-SCALE OF FEES FOR CHIEF OFFICER OF CUSTOMS AS 1. Engagement or discharge of crews: Ships under 60 tons. . Ships between 60 and 100 tons. Ships between 100 and 200 tons And 58. additional for every 100 tons. 2. Engagement or discharge of seamen separately 3. Copy of seaman's certificate of discharge 4. Indentures of apprentices 5. Certificate of deposit of any document 6. Sanction in writing to discharge of any seaman or apprentice 7. Rendering account of wages, &c. of seaman deceased or left behind 8. Copy of certificate of desertion 9. Examination of provisions or water 10. Attesting will of a seaman 9000 s. d. 040 7 0 15 0000 Nos. 1. 2, 5, 6, 7 and 8 to be paid by master of vessel. In case No. 1, the master may deduct for partial repayment from the wages of any mate, purser, engineer, surgeon, carpenter or steward, 1s. 6d.; from all others, except apprentices, 18. In case No. 2, the master may deduct in each case from wages, 18. Nos. 3 and 10, by seaman. C.-FEES FOR THE REMUNERATION OF THE SUPERINTENDENt of THE SURVEY AND ADMEASUREMENT OF VESSELS. For each measured transverse section For each certificate of survey, in addition to the above 1 1 0 For each certificate of survey or of identity where measurement of tonnage is not required 1 1 0 Ordinances shall be printed. Impression to be authenti No. 6.-1875. AN ORDINANCE to make provision for the authentication and for a record of Ordinances. [31st December 1875. Whereas it is expedient to make certain provisions respecting the authentication and for a record of Ordinances: Be it therefore enacted by the Governor of the Colony of Lagos, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof as follows: 1. Every Ordinance which shall be passed by the Legislative Council of the Colony shall be immediately after it is passed set up in fair and legible type by the Colonial Printer or other person employed for printing the Bills of the said Council, and an impression in triplicate from the type so set up, on vellum or on paper of an enduring quality, shall be struck off by him, to be dealt with as hereinafter provided. 2. The said printed impressions shall be carefully compared by the Clerk of the Legislative Council with the Bill which has passed cated by Clerk of Legislative the said Council, and on being found by him to be true and correct, the said printed copies of the said Bill shall be authenticated by him as such, and such authentication shall be attested by his signature. Council. Governor's assent to be recorded on printed copies. Copies promulgated of Ordinances. Record of 3. When the Governor assents to any Bill so passed, his assent shall be recorded on the said authenticated printed copies. One of these documents shall then be deposited with the Colonial Secretary, one other with the Chief Judicial Officer of the Colony, and the remaining one with the Clerk of the Legislative Council, and shall be preserved and be records of the Ordinance. 4. The copies of every Ordinance promulgated in the first instance shall be impressions from the same form as the aforesaid deposited copies. 5. Upon the notification of Her Majesty's allowance or disallowHer Majesty's ance of any Ordinance being received in the Colony, the Colonial disallowance Secretary shall, in his own handwriting indorse or inscribe upon the of Ordinances. copy of the Ordinance deposited in his office, a note of the fact of such allowance or allowance or disallowance, together with a note of reference to the Despatch of Her Majesty's Secretary of State notifying the same, and shall subscribe the said notes and shall likewise communicate to the Chief Judicial Officer of the Colony, and to the Clerk of the Legislative Council, the fact of such allowance or disallowance with a reference to the said Despatch, and the said Judicial Officer and Clerk of the Legislative Council shall in like manner endorse or inscribe a note of the fact of such allowance or disallowance with a reference to the said Despatch on the copies of the Ordinance held by them respectively. 6. Any Proclamation purporting to be published by authority Publication in of the Governor in the Gazette and signifying Her Majesty's assent the Gazette of Her Majesty's to any Bill which may have been reserved for the signification of allowance or Her Majesty's pleasure by the Governor, or Her Majesty's disallow- disallowance ance of any Ordinance of the Colony, shall be prima facie evidence primâ facie of such assent or disallowance. evidence. 7. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Ordinances authenti- Short title. cation Ordinance 1875." No. 3.-1876. AN ORDINANCE for Embodying in One Ordinance the Rules of Interpretation applicable to certain Terms and Provisions usually adopted in Ordinances and Rules of Court. [31st March 1876. Whereas it is expedient to embody in one Ordinance the rules of interpretation applicable to certain terms and provisions usually adopted in Ordinances and Rules of Court; Be it therefore enacted by the Governor of the Colony of Lagos, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows: 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the "Interpretation Ordi- Short title. nance, 1876." 2. All Ordinances shall be divided into sections, if there be more Ordinances to enactments than one, which sections shall be deemed to be sub- be divided stantive enactments without any introductory words. into sections 3. The Clerk of the Legislative Council shall inscribe on every Ordinance, immediately after the title of such Ordinance, the day, month, and year, when the same shall have received the Governor's ment of assent, and such inscription shall be taken to be a part of such Ordinances. Ordinance, and to be the date of its commencement where no other commencement shall be therein provided. |