Records of British Guiana. 357 
Essequibo and Demerara (L. B. No. 1), and on the 8th 
of June following, the Governor and Court of Policy 
enacted the Union of the Courts of Policy of Demerara 
and Essequibo, publication of the fact being made on 
the same day. The Union of the Courts of Justice of the 
two Colonies did not, however, take place until the 1st of 
April 181 2, during the British Occupation. 
But for the Indices, in English, the contents of the 
volumes of old Dutch Records would be, to most 
colonists, mysteries as hidden as are the meanings of the 
Picture Writings on the rocks of Guiana, from which 
Timehri takes its name. With the help of the Indices, 
however, enquirers gifted with a knowledge of Dutch 
may yet do something to let us learn more of the Colony's 
past than has hitherto been within our ken. 
VY2 
