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EXTRACTS FROM THE MIS:VT[II OF Tilt ROUSE OF

ASSEMULY, TUESDAY, JUXIE U.

[PubHAW 31st July, 18211
The following communications were received fmm the Presi-
dent:

To the lion. the Speaker end Members of the Assembly.
The President transmits to the Honourable House of Arsem.
bly copies of two despatches., containing two Orders In Council,
received by the last packet, from the Hight lionnurnble Earl 11%-
thurst, whereby two Acts of the Legislature, the one intitnled,
" An Act to amend an Act, indtultd • An Act for containing a
Registry of Negro anti other Shires in the Pend of iirenada and
its Dependencim " And the other, intituled " .1n Act to repeal
an Act, intituled •An Act for procuring at: Annual State of the
Populatioii and Produce of these Island., and for the future en-
couragement of White Servants, Labourers, and Artificers,' and
for repealing the 14th clause of an Act intituled • An Act for the
good Government of Servants. and Ordaining the Rights between
Masters and Servants, and for the encouragement of the Importa-
tion of White Servant.,'" have been disallowed. The President
conceiving, front the nature of these communications, that the na-
ture of these two Acts has arisen lion a nti conception, on t"e
part of the Committee of the Lords of his Msjesty's Most lbs.
nourable Privy Council, as to the real objects the Legislature bad in
view when it passed them, will not fail to take the earliest oppor.
tunity of representing them to hi% Majesty's Secretary of State
for the Colonies, fur the information of his 117jesty, the circum-
stances which induced the Legislatur2 to originate the Acts in
question. GE4MIGE P.ITEIISON, President.
Downing-street, London, fish May, 1821.
[COPY.'--Sin-1 transmit you herewith a copy of an order of
his Majesty in Council, disallowing an Act (1:77) passed by the
Legislature of Grenada, in the month of November, 1322. The
clause in the Registry Act, which this 'till proposed to niter, is
attended with many en-lid:II effects, and it hut not apprired to
hit Majesty in l'ourcil that there are any satisfactory reasons for
making the alteration proposcil.—l hare the honour to be, Sir,
your most obedient servaiit,
(Signed) PAT/11'11ST.
To the Oliver administering the Government, Grenada.
liowning.street, London. May 8, 1:124.
[A Corr.l-11 transmit to von herewith a onpy of an Order of
his :Majesty in Cou oil, disallowing an Act (No. 1:18) passed by
the Legislature of tiretoola in the month of November 1322
The object of the Act is to repeal an Act (No. GI) passed by the
same body on the 2:141 day of December., 17. gt, by which the fret
coloured population were relit-rea foot, a part of the charges to
which they had been subiectcd, its default of keeping a white Derr
vans, on each estate—a rule to which it is not to be expected they
would b 7 able to conform ; and by which Act also a portlon of that
pnpulatiou is exempted from the whole of these charges. As by
the repeal of this Act the free coloured 'stipulation of Grenada
would be again subjected to Cie whide of these charges, from
which they had been thus Partially relieved in the year 1783, his
Majesty, In contd.:cretin for that portion of his subjects, has been
',Liaised to disallow the Act by a Inch Filth repeal is contemplated.
—I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient humble Rervzsit,

(Simnedi
To the l)ffieer admionnering the Government, Grenada.

To the Hon. the Speaker and Members of the Assembly.
The President transmits to the lion. Holm of Assembly, for Is
Interciation. the copy of a letter he has received by the last packet,
from the Hight Honourable Earl Itzdhurst, on the subject of the
free (.011111Tell p.npulation of the colony.
June hi, 1;;•24. (i1;0116t; PATERS( )N, President
Donning-street, Lundm. April lg. Int
[A Corr.l—Sett,-1 hare received and laid before the lii ng the
address of the tree people of colour in Grenada, presented m yoa on
the DIIII 14 .I.ituutry u:t.; and his 31a.;esty has been graciously
ploa..ed to signify his satisf.iction at the assurances of loyalty and
attaeltinent t his :11aiesty's person antlfkitersintent.

With referrer' ?I o tour I c ter er the :fist January ult. I have to
inform you 111.1 l his Majesty will always view with ph2sure every
ilisposinon on the part o 1 the Legislature of Grenada to exttlid to
the free people of Cni3OUT rich yri%ilegeti as their loyalty and pro.
grew, iii civilization will eavblc theta to r.rtivc.

I have the honour to I,a, Sir, your oh anent servant.
(Signed) URST.
To the Officer admi&dering the Covernment, Grenada

We hear that the 3A of May is the (Lay appointed for the
Coronation, at Rheims, of Charles X. of France._

It is a fact no less remarkable than correct, that a pin,
trifling as it may he ileeincil to he, actually passes through
eighteen hands in the completion of its manufacture.