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say, a Governor with a Council and Assembly. The 

 Councillors are nominated by the Crown, the Assembly- 

 men are elected by the people. Different from this old- 

 fashioned system are the constitutions of tne four other 

 Governments, which, again, are all different from one 

 another. Jamaica and the Leeward Islands have each 

 their Legislative Council, in each case partly nominated 

 and partly elected, buc, whereas in Jamaica the Governor 

 presides over the Council with a slight official majority, 

 in the Leeward Islands the Governor has no seat in the 

 Council, where the Official and Elective votes are equal 

 in number. In Trinidad, with which is now coupled 

 Tobago, the Governor presides over the Council of seven 

 Officials and nine nominated members. The Govern- 

 ment of the Windward Islands is for the most part a 

 political expression. Each little colony preserves its 

 autonomy, but by Letters Patent the Islands of Grenada, 

 St. Lucia, and St. Vincent, with their dependencies, have 

 the same Governor. As if, however, six separate Gov- 

 ernments were not sufficient, there needs must be subor- 

 dinate legislatures in some of the colonies. Grenada, 

 St. Lucia, and St. Vincent not being united, even 

 Federally, each enjoys a Council all to itself. The 

 Turks' Islands, an appanage of the Government of 

 Jamaica, not onlv have laws made for them by Jamaica, 

 but have a Council of their own to make more laws forthem. 

 In the Leeward Islands, besides the Federal Council, 

 Antigua, Dominica, Montserrat, the Virgin Islands, 

 and St. Kitts-Nevis, must needs have each a local 

 legislative council, again of diff r ml sorts, to make laws fur 

 it> own little self, just as it seems tohe absolutely necessary 

 for each to have its own postage stamps and its own tariff 



