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 the others are choen in turn, every year, at the Court of Grand Seions of the Peace.

The Courts of Dominica are, Court of Chancery, Ordinary, Vice Admiralty, King's Bench, Common Pleas, and Courts of Special Seions. The firt five are the ame as thoe courts are in England, only that there may be appeals from them to thoe of the mother-country; and the Courts of Special Seions are chiefly to try diorderly whites, or negros guilty of capital crimes; and for fixing the tandard of bread, meat, fih, and other articles of the markets. At thee courts two or more Jutices of the Peace preide, but one of them mut be of the Quorum.

The fees of office in Dominica, as well as in all the Englih Wet India ilands, are very high and burdenome on individuals, epecially in ome departments, where there are alo other jut caues of complaints; but which it