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Port charges amendment. 2. The Seventh Schedule to the principal Ordinance is hereby amended — (a) By the insertion of the words " or part of a day " between the word " day " and " a vessel " in the first line of the said Schedule : (b) By deleting in the said Schedule the provision relating to quarantine fee. Amendment. 3. (1) Clause four, subclause two, of the Taxation Licensing and Revenue Amendment Ordinance, 1922, is hereby repealed, and the Second Schedule as set out in the Taxation Licensing and Revenue Amendment Ordinance, 1925, shall be deemed to have been substituted therefor as from the first day of April, nineteen hundred and twenty-five. (2) Clause one of the Taxation Licensing and Revenue Amendment Ordinance, 1925, is hereby amended by deleting the word " second " in the said clause. _ Wharfage. 4. (1) A wharfage charge of sixpence per ton, ship's measurement, shall as from the twenty-second day of August, nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, be and be deemed to have been payable upon all cargo passing inwards or outwards over any wharf in the Port of Apia. (2) Such warfage charge in the case of inwards cargo shall be payable by and recoverable from the consignee, and in the case of outwards cargo shall be payable by and recoverable from the consignor of such cargo. Assented to this 7th day of October, 1927. [l.s.] Geo S. Richardson, Administrator. THE MAINTENANCE OF AUTHORITY IN NATIVE AFFAIRS (NO. 2) ORDINANCE, 1928. Western Samoa.—No. 1, 1925. An Ordinance made by the Administrator of the Territory of Western Samoa, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council of that Territory, and in pursuance of the Samoa Act, 1921. Title. 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Maintenance of Authority in Native Affairs (No. 2) Ordinance, 1928. Administrator may declare area in Territory to be a disturbed area. 2. If and whenever the Administrator is satisfied that a state of civil commotion which threatens the public safety has arisen or is likely to arise in any area of the Territory he may by writing under his hand declare such area to be a disturbed area, and thereupon shall forthwith cause notice of such declaration and of the effect thereof according to this Ordinance to be published in that area in the Samoan language in such manner as he shall think sufficient. Provisions as to disturbed area. 3. Upon any area being declared as aforesaid to be a disturbed area the following provisions of this clause shall apply therein and thereto until such declaration is revoked by the Administrator. No fono or gathering of Samoans without consent of Police Officer. (а) No fono or formal gathering of Samoans and no ia'alolo or procession or concourse of Samoans shall take place or be held in any part of such area without the consent (the burden of proving which shall be upon the person alleging it) of the principal officer of police in the Territory. , No ~ malaga party to visit area. (б), No malaga or visiting party of Samoans shall enter or be present in such area, and if Samoans not usually resident in such area are found together entering or present to the number of four or more the burden of proving that such persons are not a malaga or visiting party and do not belong to a malaga or visiting party shall be upon the person alleging it. Samoans not to carry weapons in disturbed area. (c) No Samoan shall carry or have upon his person in such area, save for the purpose of a lawful occupation in which he is presently engaged, any gun, knife, stick, stone, or other thing which may conveniently be used as a weapon. Restrictions as to non-residents of disturbed area. (d) No Samoan not usually resident in such area shall without the consent of the principal officer of police in the Territory be present in such area for more than three hours in any period of twenty-four hours, unless for the purpose (the proof whereof shall be upon him) of attending a religious service or a gathering approved by the principal officer of police, or of visiting the sick. Penalty for breach of clause 3. 4. Any Samoan who takes part in or is present at or with any fono or formal gathering, ta'alolo or procession or concourse, which takes place or is held in breach of subclause (a) of the preceding clause, or who is a member of a malaga or visiting party acting in breach of subclause (b) of the said clause, and person who acts in breach of subclause (c) or subclause (d) of the said clause, is guilty of an offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year. Penalty for destroying notices. 5. Any person who without lawful authority (whereof the proof shall be upon him) defaces, obliterates, covers over, removes, or destroys any copy of a notice by or under the authority of the Administrator and affixed to any building or place is guilty of an offence, and liable to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months. Penalty for wearing uniforms of political party hindering Government. 6. Any Samoan is guilty of an offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months who wears or carries in any public place any distinctive uniform, dress, badge, or symbol indicative or commonly supposed to be indicative of the fact that such Samoan belongs to or holds office under any political party which is preventing or hindering the due administration of the executive government of the Territory.

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