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Council, and a Sheriff for each judicial district, who 

 is also appointed by the Governor. 



QUARTER SESSIONS. 



Courts of general and quarter sessions are held in 

 such places as may be determined by the proclama- 

 tion of the Governor, and are presided over by stipen- 

 diary magistrates or justices of the peace. 



This completes and rounds out the system, which is 

 well enough in form, but as everything depends upon 

 administration, the best forms fail when worked in 

 the interest of others than the governed. 



COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL SLAVERY. 



From the foregoing sketch of the governmental 

 forms, it is easy to see that the enjoyment of even the 

 measure of liberty ostensibly allowed to the people is 

 at the mercy of the administration, and at last of the 

 Crown. The real power is wielded from the other 

 side of the water. How it was used in the past we 

 have already shown ; the Newfoundlanders were sheep 

 in the hands of the British shearers. The native or 

 resident population (when at length permitted to 

 reside) caught fish, and their masters took and sold 

 the catch, allowing the fishermen enough to keep 

 them alive. Of course in the world of to-day that 



