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Exchequer, a Court of Ordinarj' (of limited powers)^ 

 an Instance Court of Vice-Admiraltj, and a Court 

 of Quarter Sessions; and their proceedings are in 

 conformity to the laws and practice of England, as 

 nearly as local circumstances will admit. 



We now come to speak more particularly of the 

 legislative machinery. 



It must be admitted by every right-minded person, 

 after due reflection, that the present system is too 

 costly, too intricate, , and far too extensive for a 

 colony like Bermuda. No question was ever made 

 of this, except from some one who directly or in- 

 directly received or expected to receive advantage 

 from the continuation of the system. In the early 

 history of the. colony, ;we learn that at various 

 times attempts were made to reduce the number of 

 the Assembly-men; and, in later years, successive 

 Governors, if they have not openly attacked the 

 system, have in various ways evinced their sense 

 of the inconvenience attendant on it. It is well 

 known that Governor Keid was fully aware of the 

 absurdity of having thirty-six representatives for so 

 limited a population. Governor Elliot, on one occa- 

 sion, expressed himself in a decided manner as to 

 the protraction of the session unnecessarily, — a 

 subject of complaint intimately connected with the 



