230 TiMEHRl. 



should be printed as law. The draft edition was pre- 

 pared by the present writer, and advantage was taken 

 of the favourable opportunity thus offered to arrange 

 the proposed ena6lments in " Books" according to their 

 subje6t matter. The draft edition was aftually com- 

 pleted and printed in a large o6tavo volume, but un- 

 fortunately the labour and money expended on it were 

 expended in vain, for the union of Tobago and Trinidad 

 in 1889, and the ena6lment in the smaller of the laws of 

 the larger Colony, took away the raison d^etre of a 

 separate statute book for Tobago. 



In 1883-84 a colle6led edition of the "Laws of 

 Trinidad" in five o£lavo volumes was published by 

 authority of the Government of the Colony. It was 

 prepared by Mr. G. L. GARCIA, the present Solicitor 

 General, under the supervision of Mr. (now Sir HENRY) 

 Ludlow, the then Attorney General, of the Colony. 

 The copy of this work in the possession of the Govern- 

 ment Secretary's Office is without an index, but I am 

 unable to say whether one was published separately. 



The Island of Grenada is in possession of a revised 

 and collected edition of its laws, in one o6tavo volume, 

 published in 1875. It is the work of three Commissioners, 

 one of whom was Mr. Justice W. A. M. SHERIFF, who 

 was then Attorney General of the Colony ; and it super- 

 seded an earlier edition prepared in 1852 by Mr., after- 

 wards Sir William, Snagg, who was then Attorney 

 General of Grenada. 



In St. Vincent there have been, I believe, two col- 

 lected editions of the laws of the Colony published 

 during the last twenty or thirty years. The second of 

 these was brought out some two years ago under the 



