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draw the nation and the colony nearer together, to faci- 
litate their commercial connections and business rela- 
tions. It was intended also to grant to the subjects of 
the Netherlands in the colony the advantage of living 
under a legislation and a judicial organisation, similar 
in system to the legislation and organisation of the 
mother country and based on the same principles. 
In such way and mode, and actuated by such leading 
rules the Commission of i860 took up its task, proceeded 
to fulfil its mission and ended its labours in its last 
meeting of the 8th of February 1868. 
Her Draft-Codes, viz :, Civil Code, Code of Commerce, 
Penal Code, Code of Procedure in Civil cases, Code of 
Procedure in Criminal cases, and Transitory Law, were 
then forwarded by the Colonial Government to the 
Home-Government in terms of the order of the King in 
Council of the 2nd Deer, i860, by which the Royal 
(Colonial) Commission was appointed and invested with 
the functions of the Royal Commissioner. They were 
submitted by the ministry to the Council of the State, 
and, after undergoing certain revisions at Home, 
sanctioned and ultimately introduced in the. colony, 
under the name of Codes for the colony of Surinam, by 
the Home Executive on the 4th Septr. 1868, to come 
into force and operation at midnight between the 30th 
of April and the 1st of May 1869. 
In the interval and during the sittings of the Commis- 
sion the new constitutional or fundamental law for the 
colonies had passed the Chambers of the States General 
and became law on the 31st May 1865, as related here- 
tofore. The Government had adhered to her intentions 
in the matter of legislation, expressed by her in 1851 
