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CHAPTER X.
THE CIVIL GOVERNMENT, OFFICERS, COURTS, AND OTHER SUBJECTS RELATIVE TO THEM; ALSO A DESCRIPTION OF THE MILITIA OF THAT ISLAND.
ON the ceſſion of Dominica to Great Britain in 1763, the government of the iſland was included in that of Grenada and the Grenadines, Saint Vincents, and Tobago, under General Robert Melville, but afterwards it was made a ſeparate government under Sir William Young, in which independent ſtate it remained till 1778, when the iſland was reduced by the French. Whilſt they poſſeſſed the country, the government of it was the ſame as that of the other French windward iſlands; but after it was reſtored to England, it returned to its former independent government, and in that ſtate it is at preſent.
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