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editorship of Mr. J. C. Choppin, the able and learned 

 Attorney General of the Colony. It is in two octavo 

 volumes. 



In St. Lucia a compilation of the local laws, in a 

 moderate sized o6lavo volume, was published in 1853. 

 It was succeeded in 1889 by anew collefted edition, 

 prepared by the present writer under the authority of a 

 special Ordinance passed in 1887, which conferred upon 

 the compiler large powers of revision and consolidation. 

 This compilation takes the form of a single large o6tavo 

 volume, printed at the Clarendon Press, Oxford. 



The Legislature of Barbados have from time to time 

 shown a commendable anxiety to place the local laws in 

 a convenient form in the hands of the people of the 

 Colony. A collefted edition, in one o6lavo volume, was 

 issued in 1855. This was followed by a supplementary 

 volume in 1864. Eleven years later a new collected 

 edition, in two oftavo volumes, was published. This 

 will shortly be displaced in its turn by yet another 

 edition, of an improved kind, which has for some time 

 been in course of preparation, the Commissioners being, 

 I believe, the two Crown Law Officers of the Colony, 

 Mr. H. A. BovELL and Mr. W. H. Greaves. It thus 

 appears that, in a period of somewhat less than forty 

 years, there will have been published, at the instance 

 and by the authority of the local Legislature, no less than 

 three revised and collefted editions of the statute laws 

 of the Colony. 



The Legislatures of the more distant Colonies of the 

 Bahamas, the Bermudas, and British Honduras have 

 also been not unmindful of their obligations in this 

 matter of statute law revision. In each of these Colonies 



