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TRAVELS IN 
a Lutheran churcli : a guard-houfe, in which the Burgher Senate, 
or the council of burghers, meet for tranfadlingbufmefs relative 
to the interior police of the town : a large building in which 
the government flaves, to the number of 330, are lodged : the 
court of juftice, where civil and criminal caufes are heard and 
determined. The bafis of all the proceedings of this court is 
the Roman or civil law, tempered or correded by local circum- 
ftances and unforefeen occurrences, as the nature of the cafes 
may feem to require, and which are generally provided for 
in the code drawn up under the name of " Statutes of India," 
for the fupreme court of Batavia and the other inferior fettle- 
ments of the Dutch Eaft India Company. A full court is 
compofed of feven judges, by a majority of whofe votes all 
caufes are decided ; fubje£t, however, to an appeal to a court 
compofed of the governor and lieutenant-governor, and 
from their decifion to the King in council. The fifcal, or 
chief acting magiftrate, is alfo the public accufer and attorney- 
general to profecute, in all criminal cafes, for the fovereign. 
The judges are none of them profeffional men, but are chofen 
out of the burghers of the town. 
The Lombard Bank, to which is committed the management 
of a capital of about 600,000 rix dollars, lent by the old govern- 
ment in paper money to the fubjeds on mortgages of their lands 
and houfes, or on moveable property, at an intereft of 5 percent, 
is within the walls of the caftle ; as is alfo the Weejkammer or 
Chamber for adminiftring the affairs of orphans. The popula- 
tion of the town is eftimated at about 6000 whites, inclufive of 
the military, and twelve thoufand flaves. 
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