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Rights and Privileges of the Apprentice 495 



Maintenance 495 



Personal Rights 495 



Rights pertaining to Contracts 497 



Marital and Family Rights 498 



Corporal Punishment 499 



Manumission 499 



Other Rights 500 



Rights of Employer 500 



Property in the Services of the Apprentice 500 



Right to Return Runaways 501 



Prohibitions on Apprentices 502 



Children 502 



The Special Magistracy 503 



Reforms in the Magistracy 505 



Duties of Special Magistrates 507 



Operations of Apprenticeship System 509 



Complaints 512 



Punishments 512 



Reform in the General Court 514 



Capth'es from Slave Ships 515 



Relations of the Branches of the Government 520 



Termination of Apprenticeship System 525 



The Period 1838 to 1848 528 



The Opposition Party and the Government 528 



Election of Speaker 531 



Government Prevails 533 



Separation of the Councils 534 



Cockburn becomes Governor 535 



Temporary Administration 536 



Ecclesiastical Affairs 539 



The Dissenters 541 



The Education of the Negroes 543 



Question of the Control of the Schools 544 



A Contest for Religious Equality 549 



Land System 552 



Quit Rents 553 



Failure of Close Settlements 554 



Changes Made by Cockburn 555 



Commutation of Quit Rents 557 



