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called the Collector of Taxes, in the principal town 
of each parish. The money is afterwards divided 
amongst the different branches of the government, 
according to the amount that each requires. 
5 . In addition to the work already described, it is 
necessary to provide for the trial and punishment 
of those who disobey the law. 
About this great department of government, and 
about the public gardens and plantations which 
have done so much for agriculture in the island, 
more shall be said in the chapters that follow. 
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1. It would be of little use to have a Legislative 
Council for making laws, and well-managed depart- 
ments for carrying them out, if we did not also have 
some means of settling disputes, and of punishing 
those persons who will not obey the law. 
We therefore appoint men, who are well trained 
in the knowledge of the laws, to be judges and 
magistrates; and they hold courts, where offences 
against the law and disputes between people are 
considered and dealt with. 
2. Men of high character are chosen in every 
parish to be ‘ Justices of the Peace ’, and power 
is given to them to hear and decide some of the 
cases in which people are charged with breaking 
