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[Ordinance No. 4.] PROHIBITION OF SALE OR BARTER OF GOVERNMENT STORES ORDINANCE. 1921. I, Thomas Griffiths, Administrator of the Island of Nauru, by virtue of the powers me thereunto enabling, do hereby order, enact, and proclaim as follows : — 2. This Ordinance may be cited as the Prohibition of Sale or Barter of Government. Stores Ordinance, 192.1, and shall come into operation forthwith, 3. The sale, barter, exchange, or gift of stores (including rations), the property of the Administration, or which have been issued by the Administration, to persons (including Natives) in the employ of the Administration, is prohibited, unless the consent of the Administrator in writing has first been obtained. Similarly, the purchase or acceptance as a gift or exchange by any person whatsoever of stores (including rations) the property of the Government, or which have been issued by the Administration to persons in its employ, is prohibited, unless the consent of the Administrator in writing has first been obtained. 4. The penalties for an infringement of this Order shall be —fine not exceeding £6, or imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for a period not exceeding six months, or both. Given under my hand, this 20th day of July, 1921. T. Griffiths, Administrator. [Ordinance. No. a.] CUSTOMS TARIFF AMENDMENT ORDINANCE, 1921. I, Thomas Griffiths, Administrator of the Island of Nauru, by virtue of the powers me thereunto enabling, do hereby order, enact, and proclaim as follows : — 2. This Ordinance may be cited as the Customs Tariff Amendment Ordinance, 1921, and shall come into operation forthwith. 3. On and from the date of this Order the undermentioned provisions (food-supplies) shall be admitted to the Island of Nauru free of Customs duty : Arrowroot; bacon : biscuits (fancy); barley ; butter ; cream of tartar ; carbonate of soda ; cakes ; capers ; cheese ; cocoa ; coffee ; cornflour ; cordials ; dripping ; essences ; flour ; fish ; fruits (fresh, tinned, and dried) : gelatine ; ham ; honey ; herbs and spices ; jelly crystals ; jams ; kerosene ; lard ; matches ; macaroni; mayonnaise ; mustard dressing ; mustard ; meats (including fresh, i.e., live-stock and frozen, and all tinned articles such as sausages); milk; nuts; olives; olive oil; peels; pepper; pollard; puddings; pickles ; porridge (including all cereal breakfast foods); powders (baking, custard, curry, egg, plate, knife) ; paper (sanitary) ; rice ; soap (other than those usually designated as fancy or toilet soap); salt; sago ; soda ; sauces soups; sugar; tapioca; tea: vermicelli; vinegar; vegetables (tinned and fresh); wheat. Given under my hand, this 26th day of July, 1921. T. Griffiths, Administrator. [Ordinance Nil 6.] GAOLS AND PRISONS ORDINANCE, .1.921. I, Thomas Griffiths, Administrator of the Island of Nauru, by virtue of the powers me thereunto enabling, do hereby order, enact, and proclaim as follows .— 1. This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as the Nauru Gaol and Prison Ordinance, 1921, and shall come into operation forthwith. 2. Offenders against the laws of the Island of Nauru, for which the punishment of imprisonment or imprisonment with hard labour is provided, shall be confined in a place or places set apart for the purpose by the Administrator. 3. Any person who aids or assists any prisoner to escape from gaol, prison, hospital, place of employment, or from lawful custody shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and may be fined any sum not exceeding £100, and be imprisoned for any period not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour. 4. Any person, who delivers, or attempts to deliver, or causes to be delivered, or loiters about any prison or lands adjacent thereto for the purpose of delivering, to any prisoner undergoing sentence any money, article of clothing letter, intoxicating liquor, tobacco, or any other thing not allowed by regulation, or delivers, or causes to be delivered to any other person any such money, letter, intoxicating liquor, tobacco, or any other thing for the purpose of being conveyed or introduced as aforesaid, or who secretes or leaves upon or about any place where such prisoner is usually employed any such money, letter, intoxicating liquor, tobacco, or any other thing not allowed by regulation, for the purpose of the same being found or received by such prisoner, shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding £25, or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding two months, with or without hard labour. 5. Any person loitering about any gaol or prison, or the land adjacent thereto, or a place where prisoners are employed on public works, or who refuses or neglects to depart therefrom upon being warned so to do by any prison official, shall be deemed to be loitering about for the purposes in the last preceding section mentioned. (i. If any person introduce or aid in the introduction into any gaol or prison of anything not permitted by the regulation to be introduced therein, it shall be lawful for any gaoler or prison official to apprehend such offender and to take him before any duly constituted Court, and such person shall, on conviction, be imprisoned for any term not exceeding three months. 7. Any person (except those in charge or duly authorized) communicating in any manner with any offender sentenced to imprisonment, or to imprisonment with hard labour, shall, on conviction thereof, be liable to a fine not exceeding £5, and in default- of payment shall be imprisoned for any term not exceeding one month, unless fine should be sooner paid. 8. The Administrator may make rules for the good order and discipline of any prison or prisons and the safe custody of prisoners, and such rules shall he binding on all persons in the same manner as if they were inserted in the body of this Ordinance. Given under my hand, this 20th day of August, 1921. T. GhifiriTHS, Administrator. [Ordinance No. 7.] MARRIAGES ORDINANCE, 1921. I, Thomas Griffiths. Administrator of the Island of Nauru, by virtue of the powers me thereunto enabling, do hereby enact, order, and proclaim as follows : — 2. This Ordinance may bo cited for all purposes as the Marriages Ordinance, 1921, and shall come into operation forthwith. 3. The Administrator shall be the Registrar of Marriages, and is empowered to marry persons within his jurisdiction ; he may also appoint any ministers of religion, ordinarily acting as such, to be ministers for celebrating marriages within the island. Whenever any minister so appointed ceases to reside on the island, or ceases to officiate as a minister of religion, his appointment shall be withdrawn or cancelled. The Administration shall notify in Administration Orders, or in some other public manner, the appointment of every minister of marriage, and the withdrawal or cancellation of any such appointment.

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