Aborigines Offences Act 1853 (SA)

No. 11.

Act to make further provision for the administration of Justice

in respect o f Ofences committed by the ~borig-in& Natives

of South Australia.

[Assented to, December 3, 1853.1

HERE AS it is expedient to make further provision for the Preamble.

W administration of Justice in respect of offences committed

by the aboriginal inhabitants of South Australia-Be it Enacted, by the Lieutenant-Governor of South Australia, with the advice

and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows;

1. Whenever any aboriginal native of the said Province shall be offencesmmmittt~ by natives not pn-

charged with the commission of any offence to which the punish- ni&abl, by aeub,

meut of death is not affixed by law, it shall be lawful for any two may	S U D ~	be heard	way.	in
or more Justices of the Peace for the said Province to hear and determine in a summary way, the matter of such charge, and to Mict any punishment in respect thereof, not exceeding one year's imprisonment with hard labor, which may by law be awarded against the person convicted of any such offence.

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