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the assize courts act without salary or reward, as well 

 as the assistant judges of the supreme court, any one 

 of whom, if present, presides in the assize court. No 

 appeal from the latter to the former is allowed, but 

 judgments of the assize immediately following the 

 supreme court, are considered as of one and the same 

 court, and have an equal right, in point of priority, 

 with those obtained in the grand court. 



In this island as in Barbadoes, the departments of 

 counsel and attorney are distinct ; and although in the 

 island last-mentioned, barristers have been admitted 

 by license from the governor, it is otherwise in Ja- 

 maica; the colonial laws expressly requiring, that no 

 person shall be allowed to practice who has not been 

 regularly admitted in the courts of England, Ireland, 

 or Scotland; or else, (in the case of an attorney), who 

 has not served as articled clerk to some sworn attor- 

 ney or solicitor in the island for five years at least. 



The governor or commander in chief, is chancellor 

 by his office, and presides solely in that high depart- 

 ment, which is administered with great form and so- 

 lemnity. He is also the sole ordinary for the probate 

 of wills and granting letters of administration. From 



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the first of these offices, he derives extensive autho- 

 rity, and from the latter considerable emolument.! 



vacation established as in England, with similar regulations for the as- 

 size courts, to the great icl.ef of persons attending as jurors. 







| The profits and emoluments arising artfuially from the government; 

 of Ja<mka may, I think, be stated nearly as follows, viz. 



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