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each parish three times a year. Because the judges 
travel round the country from one town to another 
for this purpose, their courts are called ‘ Circuit 
Courts 
7. Every case of crime tried by a judge in the 
Circuit Court is heard before a jury. That is, a 
number of men are called together to the court, to 
listen to the evidence on both sides, and the judge 
makes plain to them what the question is that 
they have to decide. Then they declare whether 
they consider the accused person ‘ guilty ’ or ‘ not 
guilty’. If they say he is guilty, the judge passes 
sentence of punishment upon him. 
8. Under such a method, every man must feel 
that he has a fair trial. His conduct is judged, not 
by one person only, but by a jury, or company, of 
his own countrymen; and in cases of crime their 
decision is final, and cannot be appealed against to 
any other court. 
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l. Let us in fancy stand near the ships that are 
being laden in either of our ports, and notice the 
goods Jamaica is sending olf to other countries. 
For it is upon the sale of these that the prosperity 
of the island chiefly depends. If we can sell plenty 
of our own produce, we get money with which to 
other things that we need. 
