Aboriginals, evidence of, amendment (1849) (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

ANNO DUODECIMO

VICTORILE REGINA

No. 14

An Ordinance to revive and continue an Ordinance, intituled Act to allow the Aboriginal Natives of Western Australia to give information and evidence without the sanction of an Oath.'

[Assented to 9th hay, 1849.

HEREAS in the fourth and fifth years of the reign of Her Preamble

present Majesty Queen Victoria, au Ordinance was passed,

W intituled ' An Act to allow the aboriginal natives of Western Australia

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to give information and evidence without the sanction of an oath,' which Ordinance has recently expired : and whereas it is expedient to revive and continue the same : Be it therefore enacted, by His Excellency the Governor of Western Australia, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, that the said Act shall be, and the same is hereby revived and made perpetual.

CHARLES FITZGERALD,

GOVERNOR AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF.