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An Order in Council A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council. was issued, dated July 31st, 1835, declaring that adequate and
satisfactory provision has been made by law in Antigua for giving effect to the Imperial Act.
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Bahamas.
An Act (4 Wm. IV, c. 21), dated February 15th, 1834, was passed by the Colony of the
Bahamas entitled “ An Act Auxiliary to an Act of the Imperial Parliament, intituled ‘ An Act
for the Abolition of Slavery, etc. ’ . . .” This act declared in Section 1 that “ . . . all
c olonial laws [i.c., of the Bahamas], usages, acts of Assembly, ordinances and rules, of
whatsoever nature, and however established, so for as the same in any manner establish,
recognise, confirm, countenance or favour slavery, or are, or were intended for the regulation
of the same, or for the government, protection or punishment of slaves, as distinguished
from the other inhabitants of these islands, shall, on the said first day of August, in the
present year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, be, and the same shall remain
altogether repealed, and forever after cease to be of any authority, force or effect whatsoever
in this colony. . . .”
An Act (5Wm.IV,c.8)was passed on October 6th, 1834, amending the above-mentioned Act.
An Act (5 Wm. IV, c. ?) was passed on May 11th, 1835, explaining and (further) amending
Act 4 Wm. IV, c. 21.
An Order in Council A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council. was issued, dated July 31st, 1835, declaring that adequate and
satisfactory provision had been made by law in the Bahamas for giving effect to the Imperial
Act.
Barbados.
An Act was passed on April 5th, 1834, entitled An Act for the Abolition of Slavery, for
the Government of Apprenticed Labourers, and for ascertaining and enforcing the^Beciprocal
Duties between them and their Employers , u A .
An amending act was passed on November 3rd, 1834, entitled An Act to alter an Act
intituled . . . ” (then follows the title of the above-mentioned Act).
An Order in Council A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council. was issued, dated October 12th, 1835, declaring that adequate and
satisfactory provision had been made by law in Barbados for giving effect to the Imperial Act.
Basutoland.
Section 12 of Proclamation No. 23 of May 29th, 1884, provides that In all suits, actions
or proceedings, civil or criminal, the law to be administered shall as nearly as the circum
stances of the country will permit, be the same as the law for the time being in orce in
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advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, for giving due effect to the prov.s, 0 ns of
an Act of Parliament passed in the third and fourth years of the reign of His Majesty King
Vilham the Fourth inUtuled ‘ An Act for the Abolition of Slavery throughout the British
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Impmal^Act-t ^ 3 ^ of the above-mentioned thelamf boundaries
ft Ihelbny SeXT^ of ^‘ordinance imposes a penalty of £100 for bringing natives
into the colony against their will.
Bechuanaland Protectorate. \ kmuinn nf ^Hverv Proclamation,
It is declared in Section 1 of the Allirma ion ; unlawful and that the legal
1936 (No. 15 of 1936) that “ slavery in any form whatsoever is uniawiui
status of slavery does not exist .
“Act entitled “ An for the Abolition of Slavery m the.
of Compensation was passed b> 0Uh ^ ^ declared that “all and every the
to by the Governor on February 10th, and thirty-four shall be
persons, who on the first day of Augus , ore and from and after the said first day of
holden in slavery within these islands ^ ^u ’become and be to all intents and purposes
August, one thousand eight hundred an slaverv and shall be absolutely and for ever
free and discharged of and from all man horn to any such persons, and the offspring
manumitted, and that the children that from and after the said
of such children, shall in like manner e thirtv-four slavery shall be, and is hereby
first of August, one thousand e^ in" these, His Majesty’s Islands of
utterly and forever abolished, and ae
Bermuda ”. . f , v \ c \ another Act was passed which repeale
Concurrently with the passing of the y^p’and coloured persons and extended to
all enactments operating exclusive y - j liabilities of white persons,
the latter all the rights, privileges, franchises and liann