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chap, ii.] WEST INDIES. 
March and September. In this court, the first per¬ 
son named in the commission of the peace pre¬ 
sides, who is usually the president or senior in 
council. 
2 dly, The court of common pleas. The court 
consists of one chief and four assistant justices, 
whose commissions are during pleasure. The 
chief justice is usually appointed in England, a 
professional man, and receives a salary of £.600 
per annum. The four assistant justices are usually 
appointed by the governor from among the gentle¬ 
men of the island; and act without salary. 
3dly, The court of exchequer. The barons in 
this court are commissioned in like manner as in 
the court of common pleas. But this court is 
lately grown into disuse. 
4thly, The court of admiralty, for trial of all 
prize causes of capture from enemies in war, and 
of revenue seizures in peace or war. There is one 
judge of admiralty and one surrogate. 
Lastly, The governor and council compose a 
court of error, as in Jamaica, for trying all appeals 
of error from the court of common pleas. 
Although there is no law of Grenada declaring 
an adoption of the laws of England, yet it has been 
always the practice of the courts, to consider both 
the common and statute law of England to extend to 
