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with the draft of a bill setting forth the principles and me-
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thods on which such an edition might be prepared. The provi-
sions of this Bil1 which of course are subject to such mo-
dification as may be thought proper -are in substance the same
as those of Ordinances under the authority of which I, as Chief
Justice of St.Lucia in 1888-89 and as Attorney General of Bri-
tish Quiana in 1894-95, prepared new editions of the Laws of
those Colonies respectively. I think the Edition could be com-
prised in two volumes about the size of the second volume of
the Concise Edition", with a third and smaller volume for the
index. If it were thought desirable a collection of existing
rules, regulations, and by-laws might be printed ina supplemen-
tary volume, with an index at the end of it.
7. I think the work might be completed within
the period of my leave. The new edition of the Laws of Bri-
tish Guiana, comprising four large octavo volumes and an ela-
borate index in a fifth volume, was completed in about thirteen
months. In each of the cases already referred to the Crown
Agents were authorised to make, in conjunction with me, the ne-
cessary arrangements for printing and binding. In each case
the contract was undertaken by the Oxford University Press.
8. It may perhaps be as well for me to say that
in the event of the Government accepting this offer, I shall
neither ask nor desire any remuneration for my services.
9. As the matter is now of some importance I
would