Passed in the Legislative Council this Fifteenth day of November in the year of our Lord One thousand nine hundred and twelve. F. A. MILLER, Clerk of Legislative Council. * * * * * An Ordinance to amend the Special Commission Ordinance, 1912 NO. 21 OF 1912. Be it enacted by the Governor of the Colony of Sierra Leone, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:— [Sidenote: Short title.] 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Special Commission Court (Amendment) Ordinance, 1912. [Sidenote: Various amendments in No. 18 of 1912.] 2. The Special Commission Ordinance, 1912, is hereby amended, (1) In section 1, by inserting the word “Court” after the word “Commission.” (2) By adding at the end of subsection (5) of section 2 the following paragraph:— “In all other matters the decision or opinion of the Court shall be according to the decision or opinion of a majority of the members of the Court.” (3) In line 3 of section 3, by inserting the word “triable” after the word “offences,” and in line 8 of the same section by substituting the words “reasonable cause” for the words “unavoidable absence.” (4) In subsection (10) of section 5, by inserting the words “to be” before the word “tried” in line 5 thereof. (5) In section 6, by inserting the words “which may in the opinion of the Court be” after the word “Ordinance” in line 4 thereof. (6) In section 9, by inserting the words “the notes of evidence and” after the word “passed” in line 2 thereof, and by inserting after the word “case” in line 3 thereof the words “or copies thereof certified under the hand of the Assistant Master.” (7) In subsection (3) of section 11, by inserting the word “unlawfully” before the word “harbouring” in line 3 thereof. (8) By inserting the word “To” at the beginning of the Schedule, by transferring the words “given under my hand this day of Governor” in lines 19 and 20 of the Schedule to the end of the Schedule to the Schedule, and by striking out the word “To” in line 22 of the Schedule. [Sidenote: Powers of Crown Prosecutor.] 3. An officer appointed by the Governor to prosecute at the trials of persons charged with offences before a Special Commission Court shall, for the purposes of such trials, have the same rights and powers as the Attorney-General. [Sidenote: Duration of Ordinance.] 4. The following section shall be substituted for section 14 of the Special Commission Court Ordinance, 1912:—