The Handbook of Jamaica, Volum 11U.S. Government Printing Office, 1891 |
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acres amount Andrew Ann's Bay Annotto Bay annual annum appointed April Assembly Black River British Catherine charge Charles Church Clarendon Class Clerk colony Commission Commissioners Committee Court District Ditto Ditto duties elected England established estates Ewarton exceeding Excellency Falmouth Farquharson fees funds Garden George Government Governor Grant Hanover Hill House immigrants Inspector Institution island Jamaica James John June Kingston land Legislative Council Legislature Lord Lucea Majesty's Manchester March Medical Officer ment miles Milk River Montego Bay Morant Bay Ocho Rios Old Harbour Oracabessa Parish of St Parochial Board passed payment persons Port Antonio Port Maria Port Royal Portland Porus Post Office Privy Council quarantine Railway received registered Registrar Resident revenue road salary Savanna-la-Mar School Second Class Secretary Service Sir Henry Spanish Town Station Street sugar Superintendent Thomas tion Total Trelawny Up-Park Camp West Westmoreland William
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Pàgina 93 - the punishment to which he was sentenced, or such other punishment as by competent authority may have been substituted for the same, or received a free pardon from Her Majesty; (2.) That no person shall be registered as a voter in any year who has, since the preceding first day of
Pàgina 12 - OF SOLIDITY AND CAPACITY. DIVISION I.—SOLIDITY. 1728 Cubic Inches = 1 Cubic Foot. 27 Cubic Feet = 1 Cubic Yard DIVISION II.—CAPACITY. 4 Gills = 1 Pint = 2
Pàgina 91 - The Governor is not to assent to any bill of any of the classes hereinafter specified unless such bill shall contain a suspension clause, "or unless the Governor shall have satisfied himself that an urgent necessity exists requiring that such bill be brought into immediate operation, in which case
Pàgina 137 - A person need not disclaim his own name or the foreign equivalent thereof, or his place of business; but no entry of any such name shall affect the right of any owner of the same name to use that name or the foreign equivalent thereof.
Pàgina 12 - 60 Minutes = 1 Hour 24 Hours = 1 Day 28 Days = 1 Lunar Month 7 Days = 1 Week 28. 29, 30, or 31 Days = 1 Calendar Month 12 Calendar Mouths = 1 Year 365 Days = 1 Common Year 366 Days = 1 Leap Year In 400 years 97 are leap years and 303 common.
Pàgina 92 - 10. Any bill whereby persons not of European birth or descent may be subjected or made liable to any disabilities or restrictions to which persons of European birth or descent are not also subjected or made liable
Pàgina 37 - time remained unassented to. and decreed that " all such laws and statutes of England as have been at any time esteemed, introduced, used accepted or received as laws in this island, shall and are hereby declared to
Pàgina 213 - may be sold for the benefit of whom it may concern. The Post Office Department of either of the contracting countries will not be responsible for the loss or damage of any package; and no indemnity can consequently be claimed by the sender or addressee in either country.
Pàgina 35 - to see the harbour covered with dead bodies of people of all conditions, floating up and down without burial, for the burying place was destroyed by the earthquake, which dashed to pieces tombs, and the sea washed the carcasses of those who had been buried out of their
Pàgina 213 - odour ; lottery tickets, lottery advertisements or lottery circulars ; all obscene or immoral articles ; articles which may, in any way, damage or destroy the mails or injure the persons handling them.