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printed, but one may be permitted to say that the inser- 

 tion of a " lead" or space between the several Seftions 

 would have produced a marked improvement in the 

 appearance of its pages. 



Revision in Canada. 



Before the establishment of the Dominion of Canada 

 in 1867, both Upper and Lower Canada had their " Con- 

 solidated Statutes," and so also had the Province of 

 Canada after the two Provinces were united into one in 

 1840. All these works are arranged somewhat on the 

 plan of the Revised Statutes of the United States. I 

 have no information as to the publication or otherwise of 

 a compilation of the statutes of the Dominion since 1867. 

 Revision in British West Indian Colonies. 



To come nearer home, it will be found that the British 

 West Indian Colonies have not, generally speaking, been 

 unmindful of the importance of statute law revision. 

 This remark is true, at any rate, of all these Islands 

 in the neighbouring seas ; with respe6l to Jamaica 

 and the Leeward Islands I have no definite infor- 

 mation on this subje6l. The efforts in this dire6lion 

 of the Colonies here referred to may be briefly men- 

 tioned. In 1884 the Legislature of Tobago made pro- 

 vision by a special Ordinance for the preparation and 

 printing of a new and coIle6led edition of the statute 

 laws of the Colony. As these laws had not been printed 

 in a colle6led form since the year 18 10, and as there 

 was consequently great confusion and uncertainty in 

 regard to them, it was provided that there should first 

 be an entirely new draft edition ; that this edition 

 should be printed and submitted to the Legislature for 

 their consideration ; and that, when finally settled, it 



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