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the others are choſen in turn, every year, at the Court of Grand Seſſions of the Peace.

The Courts of Dominica are, Court of Chancery, Ordinary, Vice Admiralty, King's Bench, Common Pleas, and Courts of Special Seſſions. The firſt five are the ſame as thoſe courts are in England, only that there may be appeals from them to thoſe of the mother-country; and the Courts of Special Seſſions are chiefly to try diſorderly whites, or negros guilty of capital crimes; and for fixing the ſtandard of bread, meat, fiſh, and other articles of the markets. At theſe courts two or more Juſtices of the Peace preſide, but one of them muſt be of the Quorum.

The fees of office in Dominica, as well as in all the Engliſh Weſt India iſlands, are very high and burdenſome on individuals, eſpecially in ſome departments, where there are alſo other juſt cauſes of complaints; but which

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