AN ABSTRACT OF THE ACTS OF PARLIAMENT RELAT- PRINTED AT THE OFFICE OF THE SAINT JAGO DE LA VEGA GAZETTE 1819. TO HIS GRACE WILLIAM, DUKE OF MANCHESTER, CAPTAIN GENERAL AND GOVERNOR IN CHIEF OF THE ISLAND OF JAMAICA, &c. &c. &c. MY LORD, A PUBLICATION which has no other merit than that of being a faithful compilation, could, of itself,. have no claim to the importance it will derive from being, dedicated to your Grace. The subject, however, to which it relates, and the motive with which it was undertaken, will, in your Grace's judgment, be its best recommendation, and will suggest that to you only should a work of such a nature be dedicated. Ir regards that part of the population of Jamaica whose condition has so much engaged your Grace's attention; and it contains those laws by which their situation has been ameliorated; many of them passed under your own auspices. It was undertaken with the view of rendering a knowledge of those laws more general, of increasing the means of their execution, and of facilitating their future improvement. IN |