Aborigines, validation of certain convictions of (1883) (WA)

WESTERN AUSTR A T

ANNO QUADRAGESIMO SEXTO

VIM' RUE REGINA.

No. XXVI.

AN ACT to give validity to certain Summary Convictions of Aboriginal Natives of the Colony.

[ Assented to, 19th April, 1883.]

kTHEREAS by divers Acts of Council a Resident Magistrate

is empowered to convict and sentence certain. offenders

being Aboriginal Natives of the Colony of Western Australia; and

whereas Charles Denroache Vaughan Foss has recently been ap-

pointed an Itinerant Stipendiary Magistrate at the Grascoyne, and

in that capacity has tried and convicted several finch offenders of

divers felonies and misdemeanors, and sentenced them to various

terms of imprisonment; And doubts have arisen respecting the

power of the said Charles Denroache Vaughan Foss, acting in that

behalf and being so named and appointed, to convict and sentence

such offenders. Now, for the purpose of removing such doubts, and

in order to prevent inconvenience: De it enacted by His Excellency

46° VICTORPR, No. 26.

Aboriginal Natives—Certain Convictions affirmed.

the Governor of Western Australia and its Dependencies, by and. with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as

1. IN all cases where an aboriginal native of the Colony has been so convicted of an offence made summarily punishable by the laws in force in the said Colony, and has been so sentenced to undergo a single term of imprisonment not exceeding three years, such conviction shall be deemed and taken to be of the same force and effect and validity as if the same had. been made by a Resident Magistrate duly appointed in that behalf

Convictions affirmed-