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at all. To show that this remark is not overstrained, let 

 us take the cases of some of the principal public offices 

 of the Colony. 



In the Government Secretary's Office there is preserved 

 a small folio volume containing, together with other 

 documents of a miscellaneous kind, ena6lments of the 

 Governor and Court of Policy of the United Colony of 

 Demerara and Essequebo. These ena6lments extend 

 over the period from 18 10 to 1826. They are remarkable 

 for variety in several respefls. Some are in MS. and 

 some in print, and among these latter there is no pretence 

 at uniformity of type or mode of printing. Most of them 

 are called " A6ts or " Publications," while some are 

 termed " Proclamations" and others again " Ordinances." 



In 1 83 1, with the union of the three Colonies of Deme- 

 rara, Essequebo, and Berbice into one Colony under the 

 name of British Guiana, there commenced the regular 

 publication in print of Ordinances enafted by the 

 Governor with the advice and consent of the Court of 

 Police and of the enaftments relating to the impo- 

 sition of taxes and duties, which were then, as now, 

 passed by the Governor with the advice and consent of 

 the Court of Policy with the Financial Representatives 

 of the Inhabitants of the Colony in Combined Court 

 assembled, and which were then, as now, styled " Publica- 

 tions." The Government Secretary's Office possesses 

 copies of these laws from 1831 to the present time, bound 

 in annual volumes. But the volumes for the following 

 years are missing, — 1844, 1851-52-53, and 1859-60-61. 

 The form employed from 1831 to 1876, inclusive, 

 was small folio. The type and style of printing are 

 marked by considerable diversity, a small font and blue 



