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 Honourable Colonial Treasurer : I beg leave to second the Motion.
 Question put and agreed to.
 .Bill read a. first time.
 President : I now call upon the Honourable Crown Attorney to moye the first
 reading of the Bill for an Ordinance to further amend the Dangerous Drugs
'Ordinance, 1937.
 Honourable Crown Attorney :. I beg leave to move the first reading of a Bill
 fgr an Ordinance further to amend the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, 1937. The
 object of this Bill is to amend the Principal`brdinance so as to remove the.drug
 Amidone (di-2 dimethylamino- : 4-diphenylheptan-5-one), its salts and
 any preparation, admixture, abstract dr 'other substance containing any
 proportion of amidone'" (the form in which it was previously known) from Part V
 of thee'principal Ordinance which applies to drugs which if improperly used are
 likely to be productive of ill effects substantially of the same character or nature
 or analogous to those produced by morphine or cocaine.
 2. This'drug (in its more modern form) is retained in the list of drugs to
 which Part V of the- Principal Ordinance applies by virtue of an Order in Council
 made.under Section 13 (2) of the Principal Ordinance where it is defined as
 "Amidone (6-Dimethylamino--4: 4-diphenylheptan-3-one), its salts and any
 preparation, admixture, extract or other substance containing any proportion of
 amidone ".
 3. The said Order in Council made under Section 13 (2) of'the Principal
 Ordinance is to give effect to the Secretary of State's Circular Savingram (2) of
 the 18th May, 1950; and a copy of the said Older is attached for facility of
 reference.
 Honourable Colonial Treasurer : I beg leave to second the motion.
 Question put and agreed to..
 Bill read a first time.
 President : I now call upon the Honourable Colonial Treasurer to move the
 first-reading of the General Loan and Stock Bill.
 Honourable Colonial Treasurer: Your Honour, Honourable Members, I beg
 leave to move that a Bill for an Ordinance to declare the terms and conditions
 applicable to Loans authorised to be raised by the Government of St. Vincent and
 to provide for the creation of St. Vincent.Stock be read a first time. The objects
 of the Bill are to replace existing legislation by more modern legislation which will
 render it easier to raise a loan on short notice when conditions on tle Stock
 Exchange may be favourable.
 2. To enable Stocks to which the provisions of the Colonial Stock Acts apply to
 be transferable, by instrument in writing instead of inscription in the Register of
 Stock, which method has been found. to be inconvenient and cumbersome.
 3. This Bill is based on the Model Ordinance enclosed with the Secretary of
 State's circular saving telegram of the 29th"November, 1949.
 Honourable Crown Attorney : I-beg to second the motion.
 Question put and agreed to.
 Bill read a first time.
 President : I call upon the Honourable Crown Attorney to move the first
 reading -of the Shops (Hours of Opel ing and En.ployment) (Amendment) Bill.
 Hon6urable Crown Attorney i I beg leave to move'the first reading of a Bill
 for an Ordinance further to amend- the Shops (Hours of Opening & Employment)


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