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compilation of the statute law of the Colony as in force, 

 at the beginning of the year 1 843." There is an attempt at 

 arrangement of the enactments according to their sub j eft 

 matter, but it is not easy to discover the principles on which 

 it is based. This Local Guide appears to have been issued 

 during a series of years. Beginning as a small i6mo. 

 volume in 1 825, it ended in 1 864 or 1 865 as a thick volume of 

 nearly 1000 pages, published at The Royal Gazette Office. 

 In 1864 a colle6lion of the local statutes was published 

 in one folio volume of 89O pages, by L. M'Dermott, 

 at The Colonist Office, Georgetown. The compilation 

 was made by Mr. H. A. FiRTH; The scheme of the 

 work is set forth in the following extraft from the pub- 

 lisher's preface : — " The plan adopted in arranging the 

 matter of this work will be found in itself most con- 

 venient for general reference. The several subje6ls on 

 which legislation has taken place are arranged and dealt 

 with in alphabetical order, the name of the subje6l being 

 printed at the top of each page, so that even without 

 consulting an index any subje6t may at once be found, 

 as in a dictionary, by turning the pages over until the 

 initial letter of the title, and the title itself, of the subje6t 

 required are reached. The Ordinances which have been 

 passed in reference to each subje6l are colIe6led under 

 that subje6l, and given in chronological order, that is to 

 say, exa6lly as the legislation took place, while the Or- 

 dinances or se6lions of Ordinances repealed or lapsed 

 are duly noted, leaving the text an exa6l exposition of 

 the law as it now stands. Thus every subje6t will be 

 found complete in itself, and will exhibit the changes of 

 legislation which have taken place in reference to it 

 from time to time up to the present." 



