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 it is not my intention to take notice of particularly at prefent. Thee exceive fees are peculiar to the Britih government in the Wet Indies, as it mut, in jutice to the French, be acknowledged, that there is no uch thing among them; and that during the time they were in poeion of Dominica lat war, neither the French chief Governor, nor the other civil officers, received any fees from individuals for public buines in their departments. Every thing was done gratis; and when they heard of a contrary practice under the Englih government, they expreed their diapprobation, as a practice not allowed by their government.

The militia of Dominica is at preent only compoed of foot, and includes all decriptions of white men, and free people of colour, from the age of eighteen to fifty years old, who are able to bear arms, and have reided thirty days at one time in the iland. A penalty