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Acts in 1875). The

to a

t welout

great

the

new code might be

founded upon.

the

· provisions of more modern code which was introduced by Sir Iretian

Pauncefote

into the Leeward slands

in 18. and which also formed the

basis of the Code which I prepared for Jamaica in 1879 and which has

beon faud regulating the provdings of the Itragistrates

to work well. The Ordinances

Court also require considerable

Amend went in order that the

magistrates may

be able to

• for

a

· possible to guide the valves by help of English text books a

watter

importance where asiu this

of mo

Colony

they possess 110 special legal training

autot

have

often

not even the

assistance

ཡ

Assistance of a treeived clerk.

12.

suggest that the work which

I have thus indicated should be:

entrusted to a

13.

a Commission:

Ontinanse 10 of 1875 autionized

a new Edition of

the preparation of a

the Ordinances within certain.

specified lives and provided that the edition when completed should

be accepted as authoritative without

further legislation.

14:

There

are

objections

to this

method of proceeding and I think

it would be more convenient that

the commission should in the first instance simply prepare drafton which then may

either be adopted.

as a collection of Ordinances

may

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