ABOLISHING SLAVERY
SIERRA LEONE PASSES ORDINANCE. LAST VESTIGE OF LEGAL SANCTION REMOVED. (British Official Wireless). Rugby, Sept. 23. As was anticipated the Legislative Council of Sierra Leone yesterday unanimously passed an ordinance removing, as fronj January next, the last vestige of legal sanction to slavery in the Protectorate. The ordinance does not apply to the colony of Sierra Leone! where -here are no slaves, and, until the recent fupreine Court decision revealed that «soaped slaves could be recaptured in the protectorate it was believed that the legislation of last year had lim.-iated from its laws even the modified form of' domestic servitude which still persisted. In a communication from the British Government to the League Council it was stated that English naval forces in the Red Sea had received special instructions to do their utmost to check the slave trade in those waters-
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 26 September 1927, Page 7
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