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No. 140.

(WEST INDIES.)

LAW OFFICERS to COLONIAL OFFICE.

MY LORD,

Royal Courts of Justice, February 18, 1889. We were honoured with your Lordship's commands signified in Mr. Wingfield's letter of the 18th ultimo, stating that he was directed by your Lordship to submit for our approval the draft of an Order in Council, under the West Indian Estates Act, 1886, abolishing the West Indian Incumbered Estates Court.

That it was proposed that separate Orders should be made for each of the Colonies of Jamaica, Grenada, St. Vincent, and the Leeward Islands, and the Island of Tobago, which on the 1st of January last became part of the united Colony of Trinidad and Tobago by the Order in Council of which a copy was enclosed.

That the West Indian Incumbered Estates Acts were brought into operation by separate Orders in Council in Antigua, St. Christopher, Nevis, Montserrat, Dominica, and the Virgin Islands, all which were, at the dates of such several Orders, separate Colonies, but were now, by the Leeward Islands Act, 1871, united into the Colony of the Leeward Islands.

That the Legislature of Tobago presented the address referred to in the preamble of the draft Order before the Colony was united to Trinidad, and that as the Acts had never been brought into force in Trinidad, your Lordship presumed that it was not necessary that ≈ further address should be presented by the Legislature of the united Colony.

That Mr. Wingfield was to add that the draft would be submitted for the approval of the Lord Chancellor as soon as your Lordship received our report upon it.

We have taken the matter into our consideration, and have the honour to

Report

That in our opinion the draft Order in Council is proper and sufficient for the

purpose

for which it is intended, and that it is not necessary that a further address should be presented by the Legislature of the united Colony of Trinidad and Tobago.

Separate Orders should be made for the Colonies of Jamaica, Grenada, St. Vincent, the Leeward Islands, and the Island of Tobago, as proposed.

The Right Hon. Lord Knutsford,

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We have, &c., (Signed)

RICHARD WEBSTER. EDWARD CLARKE.

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