Aboriginal Witnesses Act 1849 (SA)

No. 4.

r)HDLYAXCE Enacted F?y the Goe~rnor of Sout?~ A u s t ~ d i a, with the advice and

consent of the Legisbtiue Cozcl~cil t?tc~cof.

[25th July, 1849.1

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I \ ~ ;YR&I{EAs 197 a11 Ordinance of the &wxnor of South Am-

, tralia, with the advice arid consent of the Legislative Council thereof; Preanll)l~

Qpedient that the before-recited provisior~s should be repealed:

p s e d on the Twenty-First day of July, Che Thousand TGglrt

Hundred and Forty-Eight, il lTnsworn Tcstimonv of the Aboriginal Idlabitants of South To Facilitate the Admission of the NO. .a ~fiars.

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Australia, and the Parts adjacent," it was inter uliu (Sect. 6 ) SW 6. Pani~lllar Pro~isions rts to cor-

''Provided that no person, whether Aboii&al Native or other, mbcrt~ti,n in r: w a nf

"shall be con*icted ;f a n i offence, in respkct whereof hc may be Unshom te"imY1l~.

"adjudged to nl~ffir	death or transportation, upon thc sole unsworu
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&i	testimony of any such uncivilized person or persons (as therein
ii	melltioncd): Provided nevert,l.~eless that it shall not be necessary
i l	to a conviction in any case, that the testimony of such urlcivilized
'(	Person or persons s l d be corroborated as to any particular fact, by other evidence relating to the same fact :" A d whereas it is

Repealed Be it therefore ~ n a c t e d ' b ~ t,he Govcxnor of South Aust~alin, with

the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thcreof, That fronl and after the passiag hereof, the bcfore-recited provisions shall hp L .\

and the same are hereb re ealed : Provided always that the haid

Ocdinance slmll i ~ i x + o er respec S remain in full force. t

H. E. E'. YOUNG,

J;ientcnalzt-Guver~~o~-,

Pussed the Legislative Council, this

Twenty$fth d q cf July, One

Thousand Big11t Hundred and

Forty-nine. 1

W. L. O'HBLLORAN,

Clerk of' Council.

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