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DaEAnFUL STATE OF THE COUNTRY.—It is
with infinite pain we are so imperatively called
upon to notice the subject: our provincial details
of outrage were never more numerous, nor did
they ever present more forcibly the features of
rapidly maturing and organized Rebellion. The
spectacle is indeed frightful ! MURDER—Rob-
beries of arms, to an almost unlimited extent—
threatening notices—houses burned, from which
the wretched inabitauts escape with difficulty—
small timber hewn down in every direction, for
pike handles—and yet we are told by the
" traffickers of blood," that the country was
never more tranquil ; that a few only of the pea-
santry feel the aggravating weight of the tythe
system ; that we sound the trumpet of alarm to
disturb the peace and harmony of our country :
to disturb the peace ! yes, and we shall continue
to sound it aloud until the Protestants of Ireland
feel, that already the torch of Rebellion is
lighted around them; until we break through
that apathetic stupor by which the conciliating
friends of the Government are enveloped ; until
we rescue from annihilation the properties and
lives of our Protestant fellow subjects.—(Dublin
Antidote, March 17.)

3. And it is further ordered, That the said protector and guar
dian of slaves shall not be the owner or proprietor of any plan
tation situate within the said island, or of any slaves or slave
employed or worked upon any plantation, or in any kind of agri-
culture, and shall not have any share or interest in, or any
mortgage or security upon any such plantation, slaves, or slave;
and shall and is hereby declared to be incompetent to
act as, or be the manager, over seer, agent, or attorney
of, for, or upon any plantation or estate within the said
island, or to act as the guardian, trustee, or executor of any
person or persons, having, or being entitled to, any such plan-
tation, or any slaves or slave; and in case any such protector
and guardian of slaves within the said island shall have, acquire,
hold or possess, either on his own right, or in right of his wife,
or in trust for any other persons or person, any plantation situ-
ate within the said island, or any slaves or slave employed or
worked upon any plantation, or in any kind of agriculture, or
any share or interest in, or any mortgage or security upon any
such plantation, or slaves or slave ; or shall act as such mana-
ger, overseer, agent, attorney, guardian, trustee, or executor
as aforesaid, he shall thenceforth, de facto, cease to be such
protector and guardian of slaves as aforesaid, and forfeit such
his salary, and some other fit and proper person shall forthwith
be appointed to succeed to the said office. Provided, neverthe-
less, that all acts which may be done by, or by the order of any
such protector and guardian of slaves, after any such avoidance
as aforesaid of such his office, and before the same shall by
public notice in the Gazette of the said island be declared void,
shall be as valid and effectual in the law as if no such avoid-
ance of office had occurred.
4. And it is further ordered, That the said protector and guar-
dian of slaves shall be resident within the said Island, and shall
not quit the same without a special licence to be granted for
that purpose by his Majesty, through one of his Principal Se-.
cretaries of State, or by the Governor or Acting Governor for
the time being of the said Island ; anti no such licence shall in
any case be granted for any time exceeding three months, nor
shall any such licence be granted by any such Governor or Act-
ing Governor as aforesaid, unless it shall be made to appear to
him, on the oath of some medical practitioner, that such ab-
sence is necessary for the recovery of the health the said pro-
tector and guardian of slaves.
5. And be it further ordered, that upon the death or resigna-
tion of the said protector and guardian of slaves, or in the
event of his sickness or other bodily or mental iucapacity, or
during his temporary absence from the said island, it shall be
lawful for the Governor or Acting Governor to nominate and
appoint some other fit and proper person to act as the deputy
for the said protector and guardian of slaves, until his Majes-
ty's pleasure shall be known ; and the said deputy shall receive
such allowance, to be deducted from and out of the salary of
the said protector and guardian of slaves, as the Governor or
Acting Governor for the time being of the said Island shall be
pleased to appoint. Provided always, that no persons shall be
appointed, or be competent to act as such deputy as aforesaid,
who, according to the provisions of this order, would be in-
competent to act as the protector and guardian of slaves. Pro-
vided also, that the protector and guardian of slaves in the said
island shall at all times perform his duty in person, and not by
deputy, except only in cases in which the Governor or Acting
Governor of the said island is hereinbefore authorized to ap-
point a deputy for that purpose.
6. And it is hereby further ordered, that the said protector
and guardian of slaves shall be, and he is hereby declared to
be, a Magistrate in and for the said Island of Trinidad, and all
such power and authorities, of what nature or kind soever, as
are now by law vested in the commandants of the several quar-
ters of the said island, for the maintenance of the public peace
and good order, shall be, and the same are hereby vested in
the said protector and guardian of slaves, to be by him exer-
cised throughout each and every quarter f the said island.
7. And it is hereby further ordered, that the Commandants
of the several quarters within the said Island shall be, and they
are hereby declared to be, assistant protectors and guardians of
slaves, in their several and respective quarters ; and the said
Commandants shall, anti are hereby required, in their several
and respective quarters, to be ailing and assisting the protector
and guardian of slaves in the execution of the powers hereby
committed to him ; and for that purpose to obey and carry into
execution such lawful instructions as they may from time to
time receive from him, about or in relation to the matters herein
mentioned, or any of them.
8. And it is hereby further ordered, that in all actions, suits,
and prosecutions which may at any time hereafter be brought
or commenced in any tribunal or court of justice within the said.
Island, wherein any slave may be charged with any offence pu-
nishable by death or transportation, or wherein any question
may arise as to the right of any alleged slave to freedom, or
wherein any person may be charged with the murder of any
slave, or with any offence against the person of any slave, or
wherein any question may arise respecting the right of any slave
to any such property as he or she is hereinafter declared compe-
tent to acquire; then and in every such case such notice shall
be given to the protector and guardian of slaves of every such
action, suit, or prosecution, as according to the law of the said
Island would be given to the said slave, if he or she were of free
condition. And the protector and guardian of slaves shall, and
is hereby required, to attend the trial or hearing ; and all other
the proceedings in every such action, suit, or prosecution, as the
protector of such slave, and on his or her behalf, and act
therein in such manner as may be most conducive to the benefit
and advantage of any such slave.
9. And whereas his Majesty hath been graciously pleased to
intimate his intention to make effectual provision for the re-
ligious instruction of the slaves in the said Island of Trinidad ;
and it will he proper and necessary, so soon as such as his Ma-
esty's intentions can be carried into effect, that Sunday mar-
kets should be utterly abolished throughout the said Island,
be it therefore, and it is hereby further ordered, that it shall
and may be lawful for the Governor, or acting Governor for the
time being, of the said Island, and he is hereby required, in
the said Island on
the Sunday ; and so soon as such Proclamation shall have been
obedience to any instruction which may for that purpose be
issued by his Majesty, through one of his principal Secretaries
in his Majesty's name, for
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throughout Proclamation,
issued, all Sunday markets shall forthwith cease, and be abso-

-10. And it is hereby further ordered, that ifany person or per
sons within the said island shall work or employ any slave, at
any time between the time of sunset on any Saturday, and sun-
rise on any Monday, or shall, during that period, procure, in-
duce, or compel any slave to perform or engage in any labour,
for the profit or advantage of his or her owner, manager, or em-
ployer, the person or persons so offending shall incur and be-
come liable to a fine not exceeding fifty, nor less than five dol-
lars ; Provided nevertheless, that nothing herein contained shall
extend, or be construed to extend, to any work or labour which
any slave may perform on Sunday in the necessary attendance
upon the person, or in the family of his or her owner or em-
ployer ; or in the necessary and unavoidable preservation of the
cattle or live stock upon any. plantation.
11. And it is further ordered and declared, that it is and shall
henceiligebe illegal for any person or persons within the said
IslandlFfrridad, to carry any whip, cat, or other instrument
of the like nature, while superintending the labour of any slaves-
or slave in or upon the fields or cane-pieces upon any plan-
tation within the said island, or to use any such whip,
cat, or other instument, for the purpose of impelling
or coercing any slaves or slave to perform any labour of any
kind or nature whatever, or to carry or exhibit upon any plan-
tation, or elsewhere, any such whip, cat, or other instrument of
the like nature as a mark or emblem of the authority of the
person or persons so carrying or exhibiting the same over any
slaves or slave; and in case any person or persons shall carry
any whip, cat, or other instrument of the like nature while
superintending the labour of any slave or sh es in or upon any
plantation or cane-piece within the said is d, or shall use any
such whip, cat, or other instrument as esaid, for the pur-
pose of impelling or coercing any slave ves to perform any
labour of any kind or nature whatsoev shall carry or ex-
hibit upon any plantation, or elsewher such whip, cat, or.
other instrument asaforesaid, as a mar mblem of their, his,
or her authority over any slave or sla he person or persons-
so offending, and each and every p n who shall or ma
direct, authorise, instigate, procure, or be aiding, assistin
abetting in any such illegal driving, or use, or exhibitioi
such whip, cat, or other instrument as aforesaid, shall
be deemed adjudged, and taken to be, guilty of a inisclene
and being thereof convictedohall suffer such punishment a is
hereinafter provided.
12. And it is further ordered and declared, That it is and
shall henceforth be illegal for any persons or person to inflict
in any one day upon any male slave for any crime or offence,
or upon any ground or for any reason whatsoever, any number
of stripes or lashes exceeding 25 in the whole, or to inflict upon.
any such male slave any punishment or correction by the whip-
ping, scourging. or beating of his person, unless the person of
such a slave shall, at the time of such punishment or correc-
tion, be free fiom any laceration occasioned by any former
whipping, scourging or beating, or to inflict upon any such male
slave any punishment or correction by the whipping, scourging,
or beating of his person until 24 hours at the least shall have
elapsed from the time of the commission of the offence for, or in
respect of, which any such punishment or correction may be so
inflicted ; or to inflict upon any such male slave any such
punishment or correction as aforesaid, unless one person+
of free condition shall be present at, and witness the in-
fliction of, such punishment, other than and besides the
person by or by the authority of whom the same may be
so inflicted ; and in case any person or persons shall inflict, in.
any one day upon any male slave, any number of stripes or
lashes exceeding twenty-five in the whole, or shall whip, scourge
or beat any such male slave at any. time when there may be
upon his person any laceration occasioned by any former whip
ping, scourging, or beating, or shall inflict upon any such male•
slave any such punishment or correction as aforesaid within
24 hours next after the commission of the offence, for or in•re-
spect of which the same may be ro inflicted, or without the-
presence and attendance during the whole of such punishment
of some person of free condition other than and besides the•
person by or by the authority of whom the same may be so in-
flicted, the person or persons so offending, and each and every
person who shall or may direct, authorize, instigate, procure, or
be aiding, assisting, or abetting in any such illegal punishment
of any male slave, shall be, and be deemed to be, guilty of a
misdemeanour, and being thereof convicted, shall suffer such
punishment as is hereinafter provided. Provided nevertheless,
that nothing herein contained shall extend, or be construed to
extend, to any punishments which may be inflicted upon any
male slave, under or by virtue of any sentence or judgment of
any Court of competent jurisdiction within the said island.
13. And it is hereby further ordered, That henceforth it shall'
not be lawful to correct or punish by flogging or whipping any
female slave within the Island of Trinidad, for any offence
committed or alleged to be committed by any such slave ; and
if any person or persons within the said island shall flog, whip,
or correct any female slave, with any whip, cat, stick, or other
such like instrument, the person or persons so offendihg, and
each and every person who shall or may direct, authorize, in-
shall
stigate, procure, or be aiding, assisting, or abetting in any such
correctionbe, andor punishment
deemed,
adjudged,a s aforesaid,
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misdemeanour, and being thereof convicted, shall suffer
of
such
punishment as Ls hereinafter provided. And whereas,, it is ne-.

tessaey that effectual means should be adopted for pt nishing
such offences, as may hereafter be committed by female slaves,.
within the said island, be it therefore, and it is hereby ordered,
that any female slave who shall or may commit any offence
within the said island, which, by the laws in foece there, was
heretofore punished by fltvging, shall for raich her offence be
subject and liable to imprisonment, or to be confined in the
stocks, or to such ether punishment or correction, as may be
necessary for the effectual suppression of such offence*, and as
may be specially sanctioned in, and by any proclamation to be
hereafter issued by the authority, and in the name of his. Ma-
jesty, is the said island. And the Governor or acting Gover-
nor of the said island shall, anti is hereby authorised to make,
and ordain such rules and regulations as may be necessary for
preventing any excess in such punishments, or any abuse in the
mode of Inflicting the same. Provided that such rules and re-
gulations he not in any wise repugnant to this present order.
And provided also that the same be forthwith transmitted by
such Governor nr acting Governor, as aforesaid, for his Ma-
jesty's approbation ; and that all such rules or regulations shall
cease to be binding or in force within the said island, unless
his Majesty's allowance thereof shall be signified to such Go-
vernor or acting Governor within two years next after the date
of such rules and regulations.
14. And it is hereby further ordered, That there shall be kept
upon every plantation and estate throughout the said Island, a
book to be called the Plantation Record Book, and that it shall
be the duty of the owner, proprietor, manager, or other person
having the direction of, and the chief authority in, the said
plantation, to enter and record in the said book, at or imme-
diately after the time of the infliction of any punishment what-
soever, on any female slave, or on any male slave, who may
be punished with any number of stripes exceeding three, a state-
ment of the nature and particulars of the offence for, or in re-
spect of which such punishment may be inflicted ; and of the
time at which, and the place where such offence was commit-
ted ; and of the time at which, and the place where such pun-
ishment was inflicted ; and of the nature, extent, and particu-
lars of the punishment, and, in the cases of male slaves, of the
number of stripes actually inflicted upon the offender, together
with the names of the persons by whom, and by the authority
of whom, the punishment was inflicted ; and of the persons or
person of free condition present and attending at the infliction
of every such punishment.
15. And it is hereby further ordered, That if any person
-being the owner, proprietor, or manager of any plantation or
estate within the said island, or having the mangement thereof,
or the chief authority therein, shall neglect or omit to make in
the said Plantation Record Book, any entry which according
to the provisions of this present order ought to be made therein,
or shall not make such entry within two days next after the
infliction of each and every punishment, to which the same may
-refer the person so offending shall incur anti become subject
and fiable to a penalty not exceeding 1001., nor less than 51.,
sterling, British money ; to be recovered and applied in man-
ner hereinafter mentioned. And if any person or persons shall
wilfully or fraudulently make, or cause or procure to be made,
any false entry or fraudulent erasure in any such Plantation
Record Book, or shall wilfully or fraudulently bum, destroy,
cancel, or obliterate the same, or any parts or part thereof, the
person or persons so offending shall be, and be deemed and
taken to be, guilty of a misdemeanour, and being thereof con-
victed, shall suffer such punishment as is hereinafter provided.
IC. And it hereby further ordered, That every owner, pro-
prietor, or manager, or other person, having the chief authority
within each and every plantation or estate within the said island,
shall, on the first Monday which shall happen next after the
fifth day of April, the twenty.fourth day of June, the twenty-
ninth day of September, anti the twenty-fifth day. of December
in each year, repair to the commandant for the time being of
the quarter in which such plantation or estate may be situate,
and then and there produce before him a precise and exact tran-
script of every entry, which during the quarter of a year next
preceding, may have been made in the Plantation Record Book,
of his of her plantation or estate ; and shall also take and sub-
scribe an oath, to he annexed to the said transcript, in the fol-
lowing words (this is to say) :
I, A. 8., the owner, or manager [as the case may bel of the
plantation called in the quarter of in
the island of Trinidad, do make oath and say, that the paper
writing hereunto annexed, contains a true and exact copy of
every entry, which since the day of last hath been
made in the Plantation Record Book of the before-mentioned
Plantation. And Ido further swear, that the said Plantation
Record Book bath been punctually and accurately kept, since
the said day of in the manner by law required, and
that no fraudulent erasure or false entry bath been made therein
by me, or by any person by my procurement, or with my know-
ledge or consent. So help me Gcd.
And in case any such owner or manager es aforesaid, shall
not, since the time of making his last preceding return to the
Commandant of the quarter, have inflicted, or caused to be in-
flicted ; any punishment en any female slave, on his plantation
•or estate, or any punishment on any male slave, exceening three
lashes, ien, and in every such case, in lieu of the oath afore-
said, such owner or manager shall, at the several times afore-
said, take anti subscribe before the commandant of the quarter
in which such plantation may be situate, on oath, in ine follow-
ing words (that is to say),
I, A. B. do swear, that since the day of now
last past, no punishment bath been inflicted by me, or by my
order, or with my knowledge, upon any female slave belonging,
or attached to the plantation called situate in the quar-
ter of whereof I am manager. And that no punish.
anent bath since the said day of been ited upon
any male slave, belonging or attached to theVaidlrantation,
exceeding three lashes. And I further swear, that no entry of
any such punishments, bath since the said day of
been made in the Plantation Record Book of the said planta-
tion. So help me God.
17. Provided always, and it is further ordered, That the Com-
mandant of each and every quarter, within the said island, shall,
fourteen days at the least before the time of making the re-
turns, transmit to the owner or manager of every plantation
situate within his quarter, a printed blank forni of the before.
mentioned affidavits, together with a notice of the time and
place, at which lie will attend for the purpose of receiving the
_returns, and at inistering the oaths aforesaid, and the said
commandant sh , and is hereby required to attend, from day
to day, for thre uccessive days, and no more, for the pur-
poses aforesaid ; in case it shall be made to appear to such
• commandant, b certificate of any medical practitioner,
that any person sons liable to make such return is or are,
by reason of sickn "ncapable of attending for that purpose,
at the time and pl oto be appointed as aforesaid, then, and
in every such case, said commandant shall, and he is hereby
eqeired to, attend the person or persons so incapacitated, at
her, or their place or places of abode, for the purpose of
ving the said returns, and taking such affidavits as afore-

18. And it is hereby ordered, That if any person or persons
shall refuse or neglect to make any return, or to take and sub-
scribe the oaths required by this present Order, the person or
persons so offending, shall incur, and become liable to the pay-
ment of a fine, not exceeding one hundred pounds nor less than
ten pounds sterling British money ; to be recovered and applied
in manner after-mentioned.
O. And it is hereby further ordered, That the Commandant
of each and every quarter in the said island shall, and be is
hereby required to transmit to the protector and guardian of
slaves of the said island, at his office in the town of Port of
Spain the whole of the returns so to be made to him as afore-
said, together with the original affidavits thereunto annexed,
within fourteen days next after such quarterly returns shall
be complete. And in case any such Commandant shall him-
self be the owner or manager of any plantation, he shall, to-
gether with the said returns, deliver to the said protector and
guardian of slaves, a transcript of the entries in his own plan-
tation book, for the last preceding quarter of a year, together
with an affidavit to be by him sworn before the Chief Judge,
or some one of the Alcaldes in ordinary of the said island, in
the manner and form herein-before described, under such and
the like penalty, as is herein-before mentioned in the case of
other persons refusing or neglecting to make their returns, or
to take the before-mentioned oaths.

20. And it is hereby further ordered, That the said protector
of staves shall record and enrol in books, to be by him kept for
that purpose, the whole of the returns so to be made to him,
and shall keep and preserve in his office the originals of the
said returns and affidavits ; and for ate better and more conve-
nient keeping of the said records, it is further ordered, that the
said protector and guardian of slaves shall keep a distinct book
Or each quarter of the said island, and shall therein transcribe
each of the said returns in alphabetical order, according to the
name by which each plantation is described in every such
return, and shall also make and keep full and exact indexes of
such books.

'2l. And it is hereby ordered, That upon the prosecution of
any person being the owner, proprietor, or manager of any plan-
tation, for inflicting or causing or procuring to be inflicted on
any slave or slaves, any punishment hereby declared illegal, if
the slave so alleged to have been illegally punished shall be pro-
duced in open Court, and if the marks or traces of recent flog-
gin, or laceration shall appear on the person of such slave,
and if such slave shall in open Court declare such traces to be
the consequences of any such unlawful punishment or correc-
tion, and being duly examined by the said Court, shall make a
particular, consistent, and probable statement of all the circum-
stances attendant on such unlawful punishment, then and
in every such case, although such slave should not be a compe-
tent witness within the provisions of this present order, the
owner, proprietor, manager or other person, having the charge
of such slave, shall be bound to prove, either that the punish..
rnent, of which the marks or traces may be so apparent, was not
inflicted by him or by his procurement, or with his knowledge
or consent, or that such punishment was a lawful punishment,
within the meaning of this order, and was inflicted in the pre_
(Knee of one such witness of free condition as is required by this