356 TlMEHRl. 
from the ist January 1807, the Boundary of Demerara 
should extend beyond the Boerasirie Creek to the 
Bonasique Creek. The confusion in the Secretary's 
Office of Essequibo, at the time of the Separation, is 
mentioned in the Minutes ot the Combined Court, of the 
30th June 1775 (pp. 125 to 136). 
Transfer of the Seat of Government from 
Essequibo to Demerara.— By a Resolution of the 
Council of Ten, of the 30th of September 1784, it was 
ordered that the Headquarters of both Colonies were to 
be in Demerara, and that the Director General was to 
reside there (p. 106). A Resolution of the same body, 
on the 14th of the same month, had ordered that " the 
City of Demerara" should be called Stabroek, and that 
the Director General and Members of the Court of 
Essequibo and Demerara were to be informed of the 
same (p. 101). It seems reasonable to conclude that the 
name of STABROEK was given by the Council, out of 
compliment to one of their own number, as, on the 14th 
August 1780, the Court of Policy had received notifica- 
tion from the Council of the death of one of this body, 
and of the appointment in his stead of Mynheer Geel- 
VINCK, Lord of STABROEK (p. 7). The publication of the 
name thus given appears to have not been made until 
the nth of February, 1785,* (L. B., No. 7). On the 
2nd of February 1785, the Directors of the West India 
Company appointed Jan L'Espinasse to be Governor of 
* On the 29th of January 1799, Werk-en-Rust was incorporated with 
Stabroek. The union of Stabroek and the adjoining districts under the 
name of Georgetown, was resolved by Governor Carmichael and the 
Court of Policy on the 29th of April 1812. See the Notice in the 
Essequibo and Demerary Royal Gazette of the 5th of May 1812. 
