Other Books Received
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1002/j.1099-162X.1954.tb00065.x |
| Published date | 01 July 1954 |
| Date | 01 July 1954 |
LEGISLATION 147
on the kind of contribution
that
can be,
and
is being,
made
by anthropological
studies of primitive societies to various
branches
of knowledge.
Among
the
subjects covered are religion, law,
the
family
and
kinship
and
political institutions.
OTHER
BOOKS
RECEIVED
African Worlds.
(Edited
by Daryll Forde):
O.D.P.,
1954; 30s.; pp. 243.
M.
GU;CKMA".
Rituals
of Rebellion;
ui
South-East
Africa.
Manchester
University Press, 1954; 3s. 6d.; pp. 36.
LEGISLATION
I.
GENERAL.
GOLD
COAST.
Guarantee Corporation Ordinance,
No.6
of
1954.
Creates aCorporation for the benefit of
the
small trader.
It
will place within
his reach, by means of a system of collective responsibility, those
short-term
credit
facilities which
hitherto
he has lacked.
The
authorised capital will be £200,000
consisting of
ordinary
shares which will be offered to
the
trading
public and
preference shares which will be taken up by
the
Minister
of Commerce and
Industry.
The
Minister, with
the
prior
approval of
the
Governor
in Council, will appoint
the chairman of the Board of Directors.
Day
to day business will be
handled
by local committees, each consisting of five members; one appointed by
the
Minister
and the others elected by
the
shareholders.
The
chairman
of
and
the
Minister's
nominee on each local committee will be members of
the
Board
of
Directors.
II.
LAND.
TA:'oIGANYlKA.
Land
Registration Ordinance,
.IV
o. 36 of
1953.
Replaces the
Land
Registry
Ordinance
(Cap. 116), which has been in operation
for almost
thirty
years, by a measure whieh will facilitate
the
extension of compul-
sory registration,
permit
the reform of
the
machinery for registration and cure
various defects which experience has disclosed in
the
existing law.
ZANZIBAR.
Land
Alienation
(Amendment)
Decree,
No.
26 01
1953.
Makes leases by
Arabs
and Africans
for
a
term
exceeding one
year
(instead of
two years as formerly) subject to
the
consent
of
the
Land
Alienation Boards.
Plugs various loopholes
through
which
the
intention
of
the
principal Decree was
being evaded.
III.
LOCAL
GOVERNMENT.
GOLD
COAST.
Electoral Provisions
(Amendment)
Ordinances,
Nos.
1
and
10 of
1954.
Municipal
Councils
(Amendmcnt)
Ordinance,
No.
14 of 1954. Local
Ooocrnmcnt
(Amclldment)
Ordinance,
No.
15 01 1954.
Begin to iron
out
certain administrative difficulties in
the
preparation of a
common register of voters for central
and
local elections.
The
difficulties have
arisen because
the
payment
of the local basic rates is a qualification for a central
voter.
Nos. 14
and
15 make the provision of money for the maintenance of traditional
authorities, exercising functions
within
the
areas of councils, a
charge
upon
the
revenues of
such
councils; in
the
case of local councils the revenues remaining
after meeting precepts addressed to
them
by district councils.
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