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London, England, 1801-10-09 00:00:00

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Tl•e- late REVEREND WILLIAM HETHERINGTON'S
CHARITY TO THE BLIND.
C EIRIST's HOSPIIL,
o,flober t, dep.
WHEREAS, the abnve-tiamed Gentleman in
his Life-time, epabled the Governors of this Hofpital
to pay Annuities oiTen Pounds to each of Fifty Blind Perfons
And whereas, many other benevolent Perron' have made large
shdditions ti the lance Charity (particularly very recently the
late BENJAMIN KENTON, Efq. and Dr. GEORGE HAR Ili
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RIS. both deceafed), fo as to enable the Governors to pay fimi-
lar Annuities to Three Hundred and Forty other Blind Per-
lons, tusking together Three Hundred and Ninety; the Paid
Governors do hereby give Notice, That a Committee of Al-
Ironer.. will fit in the Conning-Houk of the laid Hofpital, on
WEDNESDAY, the 25th of November nest, at Nine o'Clock
in the Morning, to fill up the vacant Annuities, and to elect
others to the Charity of the laid Benjamin Kenton, Efq. and
Dr. George Harris, deceafed.
The fail Governors, in confequence of the soy munifi-
cent additions made to this Fund by else benevolent Perfons
before alluded to, fume of whom are 11111 living, and defirc to
be unknown; and for the purpofe of feletting, for thefe An-
nuities, ". Perrone born of reputable Parents, and well
brought up," agreeably to the intention of the Donors, have
recently agreed to admit Petitioners at the age of Fifty Years ;
sod to prevent fettitlei applications, they think proper to de.
clue. that no Perron can receive en Annuity under either of
Ake (Ad Eftabliftonents, who has not been wholly deft itute of
light for the (pace of the lift three years ; or who was not
Ports in that part of the United Kingdom called Fnetand, ea-
elvfive of Wales and the Town of Beranek upon Tweed; or
who has any Income for life of the yearly value of 201.; or who
has at any time during his or het lift received Alms front any
Parifh or Place as a Pauper ; or who is or was ever a common
beggar; or who is not of fober life and eonverfation ; or who
(hall not have lived during the whole three years laft pan in
the Pari(h or Place wherein they (hall re fide at the time of their
application for this Charity. -
The Petition. of thole Candidates who have been unfueeefs-
ful, may be renewed at the Counting-houfe of the laid Hofpi-
tal, upon the perfonal Application of • Friend, any day, (Holi-
days eteeptel), from Monday the 12th of Oetober Initant, to
Wean' fday the 28th October inflant, from Nine to Three
o'Clnek ; where alfo,during the fame period, proper Petitions
will be eh livewd to the Friends or other Perfons qualified to
apply ; the whole of whirls Petitions mull be returned to the
Counting-houfc en or before Friday the 6th November.
RICHARD CORP, Clerk.
The Public are particularly &fired to obferve, that no at -
ention can be paid to Letters.

ST. DOMINGO.

NEW CONS FITUTION.
(CONCLUDID FROM THY 61'AI OF TZSTELDAY.)

IX.—TRII3UNALS.
42. No pezfon (hall avail hinaleif of his right of Citizen for
the purport of accommodating a depute by arbitrators of hia
own choice.
0. No authority can arreft Dr fufpend the execution of the
judgments pronounced by the Tribunals.
44. jultiee adminiftered in the Colony by Trtbunah In the
Aril initance, and by Tribunals of Appeal. The law determines
the organization of both their numbers, their powers, and the
bounds of their jurifilletion. Theft Tribunals, according to the
degrees of their jurifdisition, will take cognizance of all cafes
civil and criminal.
45. There will be a Tribunal of Res Mon, which will decide
of all central ilcmatids, judgments palled by the Tribunals of
Appeal, and on all contcfts between one part of a Tribunal and
the other.
This Tribunal will not take cognize/ace of the grounds of
cafes, but only of the proceedings In which the (omit (hall e
been violated, or which than contain Come ezprefs violation of
the law, and will fend the cafe back to the ribunal under .he
cognizance of which it mould be.
46. The, Jodges of the different Tribunals (hall main their
offices durinz life, ez:ept in cafe of forfeiture. The agents of
the Government may be eianged.
47. The military delinquents ghat be cited before the Special
-Tribunals, and fithjeeled to particular forms ofjudgment.-
11efe Special Tribunals Mall alto take cognirance of all fwin-
dlMg, of all kinds of robbery, iseiralasy, affadimition, murder,
burning, rape,' coofpiracy, and rebellion. Their organization
is particularly dependent on the Governor of the Colony.
X.—MUNICIPAL ADMINISTRATION.
4lt There than be in each parent of the Colony a Municipal
Adminißration Is. thole poriOws where there are Tribunals of
the firlt inflance, the Municipal Adminiltration mall be erm-
po'ed of a Major and four Adininiltrators. 1 lie Coiruniffary
of the Government In the Tribunal Mall perform gratuitoully
the fullaions of Conuniilary to the Municipal
In the other pariihts, the Adminift ration malt be; compotes' of
a Major and two Administrators, arid the fulations of Cent-
millary Mall be perfomi-ri Iratuitoufiy by the Deputies of the
Ccummiffaries of the Tribunals to which appeals lie front the(c
parithes.
42. The Members 'of the Municipal Adminiftrations hall
Ise named every two years, and they way be con:limed for life.
The nomination of thi.in (ball be committed to the Governor,
who than chute, from a lift of 'lateen names prefented by each
Municip2l.ldminiftration, fuch per'Ons as he fh.dl find fitted
to MallAi!C the affairs of etch ;satins.
so. 'I he duties of the Municipal Admiiiiltration than coniiit
in !Lupin; the police of the towns and villages, and in clainioing
the increafe of the rever.ues, the flitAllUfaeilaeb, and the addi-
tional tax of each para. Th. y are all" facially charged with
the care of the reglfters of birth' and deaths.
st. The )Major will exercife his particular functions, as they
arc fixed by the law.
Xi—ARMED FORCE.
52. The armed force is in its ovine obedient ; it can never
deinser..tc ; it is at the difpotal of the (toe, rice who can put it
in axiom only tor, the mainten.ace of public order, and the
protetlion of the eitizens.
53. It is divided into colonial guards with rly, and colonial
guards without pay.
54. 'the colonial guards reeving without pay are never to go
beyond the limits of their paaifhes, cacept in cafes of imminent
danger. and then only by the orders, and under the perfonal
rcfpreifibillty, of the military commandant or commandants of
the place. Beyond the limits of their parilhes they receive pay,
and then become fubjeet to military difcipline; In ether cafes
they are fobjern only to the Lw.
55. The colonial robbers make a part of the armed force,
and are divided into troops of cavalry and infantry. The cavalry
is ettabliched for the maintenance of the general police and the
fccurity of the country; it Is paid from the colonial trCafurc.—
The infantry is fur the police of the towns and village'. It is to
be paid by the towns and villages where it is on ferrice.
46. The recruiting of the army is to he condußed according
to the propotitions which mall be made for that purpok by the
Governor to the Central Afferubly, and according to the mode
Oftablifhed by the law.
XII.—FINANCES, SEWESTRATIONS, Ste.
57. The finances of the colony are derived from the duties
inspnfed On the articles of importation and exportation, from
the taxes impoied no the houfes in the towns and villages, as
well as on mar.ufaaures,a,,eiculture, and hilt provifions; from
the revenues in the port, from fine. aid coofifeations, from the
right of falsr.g, on hipwreeked 'relicts, -nil from the lilacs of
the coloni I domains.
3g. 'llse produ:c of the rents of finurftered properties, the
proprietors bring abbot, and r.ot ri pre fetl4ll, MACS a pro-
vinwy part et the public revenue, and is applied to the expenses
of Adminlfiration.
59. Circumilsrices wit! determine the laws which it will be
neceffsry to make with tepee to the arrears of the public debt,
the rents levieo by the Adminiitramon on the pre-Teeth s eon-
treated aftet Ca • plotnident.on of th• prefent C oaltitution, and
an slack hake! previous to the Ind promo!, Mon ; they may
be demanded, and ihall be repaid on dan.aad, the year after
the fectunti.•••or. 0' ill !e taken mi.
by pot-irers admitted as heirs to their ',I elont in France,
whalsce cr.i. :elation. are Foreigners or It, i. !mien, Mall in
like mariner in St. Dam ngn. I hew pd. contraets,
make perchafes, the eon: :I,on ?hie prnrety foliated so
are: illino:c est it as %men, in every manner
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6z. The mode of levying and adminiftenis tie &woes, the
domain propertia' the feijueftratelt and vadat *flaws, mall be
determined by tie lawn.
6s. A temporary commiflion mall examine and regulate the
accounts of the receipts and expences of the colony. This
eominifbon to be choke' by the Governor, and to conDft of
three Mtlacra.