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Commissioners of Legal Enquiry in the West Indies. Unnumbered volume containing original...
Catalogue reference: CO 318/70
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CO 318/70
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1827
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Commissioners of Legal Enquiry in the West Indies. Unnumbered volume containing original documents relating to the commissioners' report on Jamaica. They include: The original examinations of the chief justice, attorney general and public officers of Jamaica, presented as 636 numbered questions and answers under the following heads [not in order, and with some sections not included]:
- 1, courts in general and the law therein;
- 2, Supreme Court of Judicature;
- 3, criminal jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of Judicature;
- 4, civil jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of Judicature;
- 5, revenue jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of Judicature;
- 6, Courts of Appeal and Error;
- 8, Court of Ordinary;
- 9, Vice Admiralty Court;
- 10, Court of Admiralty Sessions;
- 11, Custodes and Justices of the Peace;
- 12, Quarter Sessions and Parochial Courts of Common Pleas;
- 13, Slave Courts;
- 19, Island Secretary;
- 20, Provost Marshal;
- 22, Appeals to the King in Council.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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Colonial Office and Predecessors: West Indies Original Correspondence
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