NEW LEGAL CODE
LAWS OF PITCAIRN ISLAND FINES FOR SHOUTING "SAIL-IIO" Not long ago a Native Hands Commissioner was sent from Britain to revise the island, constitution and legal code of Pitcairn Island, and rer cently ljis suggestions came into effect. In future no Pitcairn family may keep more than four breeding shegoats, and it is forbidden for anyone. under 21* to smoke. Every man between 16 and 19 will be liable; to man public boats, and to assist in the building and. repairing of a public boat. All people on the register to vote must do so. Anyone heard shouting "Sail-ho" wil'i be liable to a fine. But as a kind of compensation local officials will for the first time in the island's history receive salaries —£36 a year for tjhe chief magistrate and 10s. a montff for the two policemen,
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 40, 19 January 1943, Page 8
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142NEW LEGAL CODE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 40, 19 January 1943, Page 8
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