Section 29, The Tonkolili Agreement Ordinance

This Agreement shall be construed and the rights of the partiesthereunder determined according to the Law of England and (except as otherwise herein and in the Second Schedule specifically provided) any difference between the parties in relation to this Agreement or the construction meaning or effect of any of its provisions shall unless the parties otherwise agree be determined by the Supreme Court of Sierra Leone. In any action or other proceedings which are instituted by virtue of this clause the Government and the Company will submit to the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of Sierra Leone and the Company may make the Attorney- General nominal defendant or respondent. The said action or proceedings shall then be conducted in accordance with the ordinary process of law and as if the Company and the Attorney-General were ordinary parties any law or ordinance to the contrary notwithstanding. No execution or attachment or process in the nature thereof shall be issued against the Attorney-General or the Government in any such action or proceedings as aforesaid or against any property of His Majesty; but the Government may cause to be paid out of the general revenues of the Colony such sum of money as may by a judgment or order of the court be awarded to the Company. Any writ notice order judgment or other legal process or document required by virtue of this clause to be given to or served upon the Government or upon the Attorney-General shall be sufficiently given or served if left at the office of the Attorney-General in Sierra Leone addressed to him on behalf of the Government and any writ notice order judgment or other legal process or document required by virtue of this clause to be given to or served upon the Company shall be sufficiently given or served if left at the office of the Company in Sierra Leone addressed to them. IN WITNESS whereof Sir William Frederick Gowers, K.C.M.G., one of the Crown Agents for the Colonies has hereunto set his hand and seal and the Company has caused its Common Seal to be hereunto affixed the day and year first above written.