Jamaica, as it Was, as it Is, and as it May Be: Comprising Interesting Topics for Absent Proprietors, Merchants, &c., and Valuable Hints to Persons Intending to Emigrate to the Island

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Page 304 - England in the name and with the privity of the accountant-general of the court of Chancery, to be placed to his account there to the credit of the owner (describing...
Page 304 - ... to the intent that such money shall be applied, under the direction and with the approbation of the said court, to be signified by an order made upon a petition to be preferred in a summary way...
Page 300 - An Act for the Abolition of Slavery throughout the British Colonies, for promoting the Industry of the manumitted Slaves, and for compensating the Persons hitherto entitled to the services of such Slaves...
Page 304 - ... amount to or exceed the sum of two hundred pounds, with all convenient speed be paid into ' the Bank of England, in the name and with the privity of the Accountant General of the Court of Exchequer, to be placed to his account there ex parte " The Copyhold Commissioners...
Page 304 - Act made in. the First Year of the Reign of King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for the better...
Page 136 - Minerva, holding a trident In one hand, and in the other a mirror, reflecting the rays of the benign influence of Heaven on the produce of the Island; behind her the British Lion, supporting her shield, a conch shell at her feet, and at a distance a ship under sail Legend, Has fovet, hns cural, servatque, Britannia Mater.
Page 299 - Privy Council, to order and declare, and it is hereby ordered and declared, That...
Page 302 - ... inquire and consider of the principles upon which and the manner in which provision might be most effectually made for the protection of any interest in any such compensation money which may belong to or be vested in any married women, infants, lunatics, or persons of insane or unsound mind, or persons beyond the seas, or labouring under any other legal or natural disability or incapacity, and according to what rules, and in what manner, and under what authority trustees should, when necessary,...
Page 304 - Monies and Effects paid into the Court of Exchequer at Westminster on account of the Suitors of the said Court, and for the appointment of an Accountant General and two Masters of the said Court, and for other purposes...
Page 305 - ... before the said commissioners; and for ensuring method, regularity, and dispatch in the mode of preferring and of proceeding upon such claims, the said commissioners shall and are hereby authorized by general rules, to be framed and published, confirmed, allowed, and inrolled as aforesaid, to prescribe the form and manner of proceeding to be observed by any claimant or claimants preferring any such claims, and to authorize the assistant commissioners so to be appointed in the said several colonies...

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