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Office, Georgetown ; (2) The Magisterial Law of 

 British Guiana, by Alfred John Pound, M.A., Bar- 

 rister-at-Law and ex-Stipendiary Justice of the Peace for 

 British Guiana, published in 1877 by The Royal Gazette 

 Establishment, Georgetown, and by J. Haddon & Co., 

 of London; (3) A Supplement to Mr. POUND'S 

 work, published in 1888 by STEVENS and SONS, of 

 London ; (4) The Law of Summary Convi6lions by 

 A. M. Abbott, Stipendiary Magistrate's Clerk, published 

 in 1884 by Macrone & Co., of Glasgow; and (5) A 

 Hand-Book of the Labour Law of the Colony, by 

 Charles B. Grose, Stipendiary Justice's Clerk, pub- 

 lished in 1890 at The Argosy Office, Georgetown. 

 Necessity for Revision. 

 There will perhaps be general agreement with the 

 proposition that the time has now come when a new and 

 revised edition of the statute laws of this Colony should 

 be prepared and put forth under the authority of the 

 Legislature. Some years have elapsed since the publi- 

 cation of the private editions to which reference has been 

 made, and during those years a considerable number of 

 Ordinances have been added to the Statute Book. We 

 have reached the stage spoken of above when the 

 a6lual condition of our laws is one of " confusion, con- 

 tradidlion, repetition, and disorder." A very large 

 number of Ordinances contained in the editions of 

 Firth and M'Dermott, and of course a still larger 

 number contained in the original volumes of the 

 laws, have been repealed. The alteration and amend- 

 ment of Ordinances by subsequent enaftments have also 

 been carried out to a considerable extent. The law re- 

 lating to any given subject of importance will probably 



