Forwards copies of the Special Magistrates monthly returns on cases 'between Masters...

Forwards copies of the Special Magistrates monthly returns on cases 'between Masters and Apprentices at Exuma'. Most of the returns are nil. Includes two cases. In the first, apprentice Joe Skinner was sentenced to receive twenty five strips for 'disobedience of orders and very insolent language to complainant as employer [James Marley]'. The second outlines an investigation made into the conditions on Mrs Frances Ferguson's plantation. It is noted that 'the discontent and disobedience manifested by this Lady's apprentices had in the first instance arisen from neglect of her late overseer, who has by the concurrent testimony of all parties, allowed the apprentices to idle their time, and they now feel the difference, by being called upon to work steadily, and regularly; and secondly by Mrs Ferguson trying to exact too much from them'. Bahamas, unnumbered, Folios 253-263