Commissioners of Legal Enquiry in the West Indies, unnumbered volume. Miscellaneous...

Commissioners of Legal Enquiry in the West Indies, unnumbered volume. Miscellaneous papers relating to the work of the commissioners in Trinidad, as follows:

• application of attorney general for his fees and costs in assisting the commissioners;
• numerous petitions, evidence given before the commissioners, and other papers detailing grievances and complaints relating to the administration of justice and referred to the commissioners [in English, Spanish and French];
• questions put by the commissioners to Ashton Warner, chief justice of Trinidad, and to other members of the judiciary, with their answers;
• instructions from the Tribunal of Intendant to the Depositario General [1818];
• journal of proceedings on the Lodge Estate, giving numbers of slaves, hired tradesmen and hired labourers; daily occurrences 'with remarks of crimes, punishments, &c'; state of the weather; accounts of receipt and expenditure of certain supplies; accounts of produce made and delivered; and hospital reports.

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