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might be committed to hard labour should be employed in 

 the improvement of the church to which they belonged or 

 of some adjacent church. 



Tn 1811 the privilege of trial by jury was extended to the 

 Dutch and to the natives. 



The germ of the Municipal Council of Colombo is found 

 in the Regulation No. 5 of 1820. It established an assess- 

 ment on houses in the Fort town and Four Gravets of 

 Colombo for the purpose of keeping the roads in good 

 repair and providing lights therein, and also transferred to 

 the Collector's Department for the same purposes the 

 amount collected for licenses on bullock bandies. Galle 

 followed suit in 1824. 



In 1822, not long after the cession of the Kandyan Pro- 

 vinces, appeared the germ of our Forest Ordinance. 



In 1826 hanging was substituted for drowning as capital 

 punishment for females in the Kandyan Provinces. 



The Regulation No. 2 of 1828 required every one to send 

 in to Government a return of <the number of elephants he, 

 she, or they were possessed of. 



The Regulation No. 2 of 1832 repealed the Dutch 

 Proclamation prohibiting Moormen and Malabars from 

 possessing houses and grounds within the Fort and Pettah 

 of Colombo. 



Regulation No. 4 of 1833 dealt with the lately established 

 Ceylon Savings Bank. 



The volume closes with an Index to the Legislative Acts 

 of the Dutch Government, which almost tempts one to learn 

 Dutch.* 



One of them fixes the price of coffins, another prohibits 

 galloping on horseback or in chariots in the Fort, and 

 another orders all natives to proceed to their Korales and 

 Pattus on pain of being put in chains for the space of three 

 years. 



* Mr. White, unwittingly, proceeds to trench on ground already covered 

 by Mr. Lewis's Paper. See ante, p. 11, Note. * — B., Hon. Sec. 



