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Councillors, on the 13th of April 1773. On the 23rd 
March 1772, the Sovereign issued an Ordinance with 
respect to persons using improper language and behaving 
disrespectfully towards the Courts. This was republished 
in the colony on the 24th of March 1788. On the 4th 
of October 1784, the Council of Ten ordered the 
Director General to send to Holland every year a certain 
quantity of preserves made of fruits growing in the 
colony. 
The Colonial Government. — The colonies were 
governed by a Directeur General, at Head-Quarters, 
with a subordinate officer called Commandeur, in 
direct charge of the sister colony. There was a 
Colonial Receiver of Taxes, a Secretary and Book- 
keeper, and a Fiscal.* The homely title of Bookkeeper, 
appears to have originated from the keeping of the 
books of the West India Company's Estates in the two 
colonies. On the 2nd of October 1773,. the Court of 
Policy of Essequibo prescribed the mode of keeping the 
colony's books (p. 325). In 1779, the Court of Direc- 
tors of the Company, ordered that a yearly account of 
Poll, and Colonial, Taxes, signed by the Colonial Receiver 
and two members of the Court, was to be sent to the 
Directors. On the 17th May 1778, the Directors wrote 
out instructions about the rank of the Fiscal (p. 293). 
* Matthias Tinne was appointed Receiver of the colony of Demerara 
on the 14th of July 1794, by the Council for the colonies. On the 6th 
of July 1795, he was appointed Secretary of the colony by Governor 
Beaujon. When the office of Secretary was conferred by Patent upon 
John Sullivan, that gentleman appointed P. F. Tinne to be his Deputy, 
on the 28th of April 1804. This latter as the Secretary to the Court of 
Policy, countersigned the Articles of Capitulation, of the i8th Sep- 
tember, 1804. 
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