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 a place encloed for the lawyers and officers of the courts, jury boxes, and a bar for the prioners. In this building all caues, civil and criminal, are tried; and all public buines of the colony is there tranacted by the Governor, Council, and Aembly of the iland.

The public Secretary's, Regiter's, and Provot Marhal's offices, are two low tone buildings in the yard of the Court-houe, and are covered with tiles. Thee buildings are in no other repect remarkable, than being very badly contrived, and no ways adapted to the purpoes for which they were intended; the tiles being frequently blown off in the hurricane eaons, renders them damp, and an improper place for keeping public records.

The church is a large lofty building of wood, but it is at preent much out of repair. It has a neat pulpit, reading dek, and a few