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without permission under the hand of the Resident Commissioner or a Resident Agent, and with such precautions as the Resident Commissioner or a Resident Agent may prescribe as the condition of such permission. 3. Any person who desecrates any grave, or who removes, or assists or abets in removing, any human body contrary to the last preceding seel ion, or who neglects to observe the precautions prescribed as th<- condition of the permission for removal, shall be liable for any such offence to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds, or, at the discretion of the Court, to imprisonment with hard labour for any term not exceeding twelve months. 4. The Resident Commissioner may order any term or portion of any term of imprisonment inflicted under the last preceding section to be served on the Island of Maiiuae, or other penal settlement. Passed by the federal Council, this twelfth day of March, nineteen hundred and ten. S. Savage, Approved. Clerk to Council. J. Eman Smith, Resident Commissioner. Assented to by His Excellency the Administrator of the Government on the 15th June, 1910.

No. 16. Sir, — Cook Islands Administration, Wellington, 16th June, 1910. 1 have tile honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 15th March last, forwarding Federal Ordinance No. ■'!(), the Desecration of (Laves Ordinance, for the assent of His Excellency the Governor, and, in reply, to return to you the Ordinance duly assented to by His Excellency. 1 have, &c, The Resident Commissioner, Rarotonga. J Carroll.

No. 17. Sat, — Cook Islands Administration, Rarotonga, 2!)th March, 1910. 1 have the honour to enclose for your information the Atiu Local Ordinance No. 1, to regulate Village Life within the Island of Atiu, for the signature of His Excellency the Governor. The Ordinance has been passed by the Island Council, and approved of by the President, Major Large. I have, &c, J. Eman Smith, The Hon. .lames Carroll, Resident Commissioner. Minister in Charge, Cook Islands Administration, Wellington.

Enclosure. Atiu Local Ordinance No. I.—An Ordinance to" regulate Village Life withim the Island of Atiu. Be it enacted by the Island Council of Atiu as foUows: — 1. The Short Title of this Ordinance shall be the Atiu Village Regulation Ordinance, lit 10. 2. Sections two to four and six to' sixteen, inclusive, of the Mangaia Village Regulation Ordinance, 1905, are hereby adopted for lie Island of Atiu, and shall he deemed to form part of this Ordinance, substituting therein the name " Atiu " for the name " Mangaia.'' 3. The provisions of sections four and six to sixteen, inclusive, of the Mangaia Village Regulation Ordinance, 1905, as adopted by this Ordinance, shall be deem. 11 to have come into operation on the first day of January, nineteen hundred aud ten; but the provisions of sec tions two and three of the Mangaia Village Regulation Ordinance, 1905, as adopted bv this Ordinance, shall not come into operation until such time as is notified by the Resident Commissioner in the Cook Islands Gazette. The Resident Commissioner may at any time then-after, by notice in the Cook Islands Gazette, restrict the operation of said sections two and three for such period or periods as he may deem expedient. Passed by the Island Council of Atiu on the twenty-sixth day of November, nineteen hundred and nine. Jno. T. Large, President, Atiu Island Council. Assented to by His Excellency the Administrator of the Government on the 15th June, 1910.

No. 18. Sir, — • Cook Islands Administration, Wellington, 16th June, 1910. I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 29th March last, forwarding Atiu Island Council Ordinance No. I, Village Ordinance, for the assent of His Excellency the Governor, and, in reply, to return to you the Ordinance duly assented to by His Excellency. I have, &c, The Resident Commissioner, Rarotonga. J. Carroll.