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 ADDRESSES 
 
 PRESBNTBD TO 
 
 HON. H. W. AUSTIN 
 
 CHIKK JIJSTICK 
 
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 BAHAMAS 
 
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 ON HIS RETIREMENT FROM THE BENCH OF 
 
 THE COLONY. 
 
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 ADDRESSES 
 
 I'KBSBNTBD TO 
 
 Hon. H. W. AUSTIN, CHIEF JUSTICE. 
 
 My dear Sir, 
 
 St. Mary's Ebctory, Nassau, 
 
 Bahamas, May 2l8t, 1890. 
 
 I have been requested by the clergy and ministers of the 
 several churches and congregations of this city and island to 
 forward to you the enclosed letter of sympathy and farewell. 
 
 As a comment upon your somewhat sudden and regrettable 
 retirement from the office of Chief Justice the document is a 
 weighty one, coming as it does from an intelligent body of men 
 who, as pastors of their several congregations, come into daily 
 contact with every condition of life to he f )und in your late 
 jurisdiction. Those whose names are appended represent the 
 white, black and colored elements of our |)Ojjiilation. They know 
 the feelings of European residents, of old Bahamian settlers, of 
 merchants who have most at «take in the community, and of the 
 laboring classes. 
 
 Speaking for myself, an Englishman who has spent twenty- 
 four years in Nassau, and to whom, from long acquaintance, all 
 
 classes speak unreservedly on mutters of general interest 
 
 speaking for myself, I can say that 1 view your departure as 
 a public misfortune ; for I hazard the assertion that outside a 
 certain circle of a few persons bound by blood .«nd marriage, it 
 is impossible to find in this colony a dozen persons who speak 
 otherwise than with respect an*' contidotice of one who is styled 
 by the masses " the righteous judge." 
 
 I remain, my dear Sir, 
 
 Yours with respect and esteem, 
 
 CHARLES WAKEFIELD, B. A., 
 
 Archdeacon. 
 ^he Hon. W. H. Austin, 
 
 Late Chief Justice o/ the Bahamas. 
 
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Sir, . 
 
 Your sudden retirement from the office of Chief Justice of this 
 colony cannot be allowed to pass without our expressing and 
 conveying to you the deep regret that we feel at the loss of your 
 able, impartial and conscientious discharge of the manifold and 
 arduous duties devolving upon you as Chief Justice of this colony 
 and Judge of the Supreme Courts for the past ten years. 
 
 We view your departure with profound sorrow, and as a loss 
 to the colony of a judge that is upright, fearless and righteous. 
 
 You carry with you the esteem and respect and the good 
 wishes of a great majority of those who have had opportunities 
 of judging and estimating your worth. 
 
 We earnestly desire for you and yours health, happiness and 
 abundant prosperity. 
 
 We have the honor to be. Sir, Yours faithfully, 
 Philip Young, 
 
 Dean and Rector of Christ Church 
 Cathedral. 
 Chas. C. Wakefield, B.A., (Oxon. Magd. 
 
 Coll.) 
 
 Archdeacon and Hector of S. Mary's, 
 
 Nassau. 
 
 J. Shermam Fisher, 
 
 Rector of S. Agnes'. 
 Wm. W. Dunoombb, 
 
 Rector of S. David's. 
 W. LowRDE Glanville, 
 
 Rector of S.Philip' sand Rural Dean. 
 
 W. H. Stromborn, 
 
 Rural Dean. 
 
 M. C. Btwater, 
 
 Rector of St. Andrew's Exonue and 
 
 J.P. 
 
 Audley J. Browne, 
 
 Head Master of the Grammar School 
 
 and Assistant Priest at the 
 
 Cathedral, Nassau. 
 
 W. S. Page, 
 
 Assistant Curate of S.Agnes'. 
 
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 Charles T. Fitzgerald, B.A., 
 
 Stanley. 
 
 Joseph Kewley, 
 
 Wes. Minister. 
 
 Bernard J. Reilly, 
 
 St. Francis Xavier Church. 
 
 Eb. Edwards, 
 
 Green Turtle Cong. 
 
 R. Worm well, 
 
 Wesleyan Minister. 
 
 William Theo. Willerup, 
 
 Pastor Bethel Native Baptist Church. 
 
 Chas. a. Dann, 
 
 Baptist Missionary. 
 
 David Thomas, 
 
 Pastor A. M. E. Zion Church. 
 
 N. B. Stewart (Rev., D.D.), 
 
 P. E. A. M. E. Church. 
 
 James W. Roberts, 
 
 Pastor St. John's, Native Baptist 
 Minister. 
 
 Jupiter Fernandez, 
 
 Native Minister. 
 
 Joseph Sexton, 
 
 P. E. of the A. M. E. Zion Church, 
 U. S. A, 
 
 Daniel W. Martindale, 
 
 Elder in A. M. E. Zion Church. 
 
 John James Kerr, 
 
 Native Baptist Preacher. 
 
 David L. D. Kerr, 
 
 Native Baptist Minister. 
 
 Rev. Dents Paul P. Flynn, 
 
 Pastor of St. Fr. Xavier Church. 
 
 To his Honor Henry William Austin, 
 
 Late Chief Justice of the Bahamas. 
 
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 Gentlemen, 
 
 I have tho li'^nor to acknowledge the ad«lroH8 you have been 
 pleased to present to me on my retirement from tho office of 
 Chief Justice of this colony. 
 
 I feel highly honored by such a teHtimonial, coming as it doen 
 from so many of the clergy of the colony, distinguiHhed momber?* 
 of tho different communions. To have merited and to receive 
 your approbation in thin marked and public manner is most 
 gratifying. 
 
 I have had your valuable oxampl teachings and influence on 
 society to aid me in the performance of my duties, which has 
 made my task much easier. 
 
 I thank you cordially for your good wishes f'oi- the health and 
 happiness of myself and family, and 1 shall always remember you 
 and your kind farewell. 
 
 I remain. 
 
 Reverend gentlemen. 
 
 Very faithfully yours. 
 W. II. AUSTIN. 
 
 To the Very Eeveiend the Dean Young, the Venerable the 
 Archdeacon Wakefield, B.A., and Reverend Gentlemen. 
 
 Sip 
 
 Nassau, May 20th, 1890. 
 
 Under tho present existing state of affairs, with the entire 
 press of the colony, as we have good reason to believe, under tho 
 control of the clique inimical to you, wo find it a matter of 
 impossibilil/ to obtain the publication of our address and your 
 reply thereto. 
 
 We feel certain that the refusal to give publication is in keeping 
 with the editorial of the Nassau Guardian of the 21st instant, so 
 as to make it appear abroad that that editorial is the opinion of 
 
 the people. 
 
 We, however, who are aware of the real situation, know that 
 public opinion is suppressed by the few who actually control the 
 press of this city. 
 
 We regret this untoward state of affairs, and express without 
 
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 doubt tho opinion that wore we in telotj^raphic communication 
 with tlie world, tins lii;i;h-handod and unjiiHt ntate ot affairs would 
 not be tolerated; nay, in fact, could not have been broui^ht into 
 exiHtonco. 
 
 On behalf of the signers of addroHR, 
 
 We are, Sir, 
 
 Very siincerely yours, 
 
 JOS. ROKKU. 
 W. K. ALBIJRY. 
 W. E. PRITOHARD. 
 LOUIS H. DUTY. 
 Hon. W. II. A'TSTiN, 
 
 Chambers, 
 Nassau, 2nd May, 1890. 
 My dear Sir, 
 
 f cannot permit your sudden retirement from tho Bench of this 
 colony to pass without oxprossing and convoying to you the very 
 groat an< sincere regret I (and I can with perfect truth declare 
 a large majority of tho inhabitants) feel at tho loss of your able, 
 impartial and conscientious discharge of the multifarious and 
 arduous dutios devolving upon you as tho solo and only Judge of 
 all the Superior Courts therein, and which have boon con- 
 tinuously and satisfactorily performod by you for the past ton 
 years. 
 
 U])on such retirement you will have tho satisfaction of knowing 
 that you take with j'ou the respect, good wishes and esteem of 
 those who had opportunities of judging and estimating your 
 worth, who fervently wish for tho future health, happiness and 
 prosperity of yourself and amiable family. 
 Believe me, my dear Sir, 
 
 Yours ever faithfully 
 (Signed) T. M. MATHEWS, Q.C. 
 
 3rd May. 
 My dear Mr. Mathews, 
 
 It gave me great pleasure to receive your kind letter of 
 yesterday expressing your sentiments upon my retirement from 
 tho Bench of tho colony. 
 
 There is no one hei'o T consider so well qualified to express an 
 
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 opinion upon tho manner in which tho buHiness before the Courts 
 of superior Jurisdiction has been conducted during the ton years 
 of my tenure in office, and I cannot forget tho valuable aid you 
 have always given me in your practice before the Courts in all 
 the important cases in which you have been concerned. 
 
 Believe me I value much your opinion as to the performance 
 of my legal duties, and I thank you most cordially for all your 
 kindness and courtesy to me in our professional inter course, and 
 for the good wishes now expressed for the future of myself and 
 family. 
 
 Sincerely yours, 
 
 (Signed) H. W. AUSTIN. 
 
 Nassau, May 24, 1890. 
 
 Mt dear Judge, 
 
 I enclose a note from the editor of the Nassau Guardian which 
 speaks for itself. Why can he refuse to print, in what claims to 
 be a free paper, what is merely a matter of general information ? 
 Why need he " accompany the address with comments of his 
 *' own not in accord with tho t^entiments expressed in the 
 " document " ? The cause of your persecutors must be pretty 
 bad if they are afraid for it to be known that you have hosts of 
 friends. What a pretty pass the colony has come to when the 
 whole body of ministers of religion are refused a voice 
 in the newspaper ! What a country to live in ! How do we 
 know who will be next tho object of malicious attack, and what 
 protection or justice could anyone hope for who has the clique 
 against him? 
 
 That article on Wednesday was the most unchristian, ungentle- 
 manly and inhuman production I think I have seen in a public 
 newspaper. They evidently wish you to leave apparently, to 
 outsiders, broken, branded and friendless. Magna est Veritas, etc. 
 
 Always yours with esteem, 
 
 CHAS. C. WAKEFIELD. 
 
 The Times refuses also. 
 
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 Nassau, May 23ra, 1890. 
 
 KlSVEUKNh SlU, 
 
 I have lo uckriowliMl^o tlio rocoipt of your lottor of yoHtenlay 
 requostini; mu to puMnh a I'-opy of an addrosH which has beon 
 presented to the hito(Jhiof, Justice, and signed hy the clor/^y, etc. 
 
 Inasmuch as the publication of (ho address would necessarily 
 bo accompanied with comments of my own not in accord with 
 the sentiments expressed in the document in <[uestion, 1 doom it 
 best, after duo consideration, to decline very respectfully to 
 permit the address to appear in my ]iapor. 
 
 Very faithfully yours, 
 
 A. E. MOSKLEY. 
 The Venerable Arehdoacon Wakefield. 
 
 Nassau, N. P., May 22nd, 18l>0. 
 Dear Sir, 
 
 1 have received your note cnclosin;^ an address to his Honor 
 the late Chief Justice II. W. Austin, with a request to publish 
 the same, and in reply thereto bey to say 1 am unable to do so. 
 
 1 am, Sir, 
 
 Yours most obediently, 
 
 CHAKLK8 H. E. KEMP, 
 Editor " Nassau Times." 
 Kev. C. C. Wakefield, B.A. 
 
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 Nassau, N.P., May 21st, 1890. 
 Sir, 
 
 Knowing that you are soon to taUe your departure from 
 amongst us, we take this o|)portunity of expressing our hearty 
 good will, sincere appreciation and oai'nest sympathy for you. 
 
 We view with unfeigned regret your consent to and acceptance 
 of the i)ension granted you by the Legislature of these Islands, 
 not that we doom it unmerited, but we look upon the measure 
 with unalloyed suspicion after the perusal of the message of His 
 Excellency the Governor, dated the 25th February, 1890, inspired 
 as it claims to be by Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State 
 
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 for the Colonies, that for reasons of State, an upright, con- 
 scientious and impartial Judge, as you have proven yourself to 
 be during your ten years of office in the Bahamas, you have been 
 compelled to suti'er Eighteousness' sake, and because you have 
 done your duty. 
 
 Fully alive to your worth as an able and upright Judge, we 
 cannot refrain from expressing our unqualified disapprobation of 
 the course of proceedings which has, we believe, driven you to an 
 enforced resignation. 
 
 We learn, also, with a feeling of indignation, that rumours 
 have been circulated in England with a view to represent you as 
 unpopular amongst the people, and wo take this opportunity 
 of repudiating this as a malicious fiction contrary to the openly 
 expressed wishes of the people, who look upon the whole pro- 
 cedure against you as directly opposed to their Interest — as 
 against right, and not calculated to the better and more irapartial 
 administration of justice in this Colony. 
 
 You leave us with feelings of our unfeigned regret not un- 
 mingled with alarm for the future for the independence cf the 
 Bench in this Colony. 
 
 We give you the assurance that you possess our cordial esteem, 
 respect and good will ; and, tendering you our best wishes for the 
 future, we trust you and yours may enjoy all the blessings and 
 happiness of life wherever you may reside. 
 
 LOUIS N. DUTY. 
 
 Sam. Winder, 
 John A. Eamsay, 
 John Pascal Bastian, 
 Henry McKenzie, 
 James J). Saunders, 
 W. A. Smith, 
 William H. Major, 
 Frederick D. Copat, 
 John N. Brown, 
 A. J. Burnside, 
 Thos. H Sands, 
 Kobert A. Hi^gs, 
 William H. Youni^. 
 John Alfred, 
 
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 H. W. Whitfield, 
 John E. Pauza, 
 James F. Sherry, 
 Benjamin W. Hall, 
 Thos. J. Thompson, 
 Samuel H. Rees, 
 William E. Peal, 
 Jas. D. Wark, 
 John A. Domoritt, 
 Nathaniel S. Elliott, 
 Thomas H. Ferguson, 
 Oscar Miron, 
 Thos. Anderjson, 
 John J. Kemp, 
 
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 Hugh Eamsay, 
 Thos. A. Gibson, 
 Chas. A. Bartlett, 
 Joseph A. Crawley, 
 E. F. White, 
 Chas. C. Coast, 
 Thomas M. Knowles, 
 George W. H. Demeritt. 
 Laurence Sands, 
 Mingo Brice, 
 John D. Evans, jr., M.P. 
 Wm. Gipson, 
 Wm. H. Francis, 
 John Holbert, 
 W. H. Forbes, 
 John A. Eoxborough, 
 Arthur F. Munnings, 
 Joseph A. Bell, 
 Nathaniel T. Deane, 
 John Finlayson, 
 John Wilson, 
 Edward Wallace, 
 Lorenzo Roberts, 
 Tlios. Lunn, 
 James Simnett, 
 James E. Hall, 
 John A. Cox, 
 James C. Kemp, 
 George A. Kerr, 
 
 Charles Andson, 
 
 Richard Netain, 
 Heniy R. Armbristcr, 
 
 John Demeritt, 
 
 his 
 
 George X Jones, 
 mark 
 
 Percival Bossett, R.H. 
 Edward Anthony Roberts, 
 John A. Hawkins, 
 Edwin E. Davis, 
 L. O. McKinney, 
 Theodore McKinney, 
 Timothy A. Smith, 
 William Basden, 
 William C. Evans, 
 James Major, 
 Henry S. Higgs, 
 W. M. Mackel, 
 Aziel Sweetin 
 
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 Thos. B. Brown, 
 A. W. Stuart, 
 John W. Thompson, 
 Alfred N. Eldon, 
 George A. Gibson. 
 Heniy Rolle, 
 George Lond, 
 Rodger A. Young, 
 Ernest Sweeting, 
 Rage Lightburn, 
 Cornelius Kemp, 
 Kdward Hasgill, 
 Geo. Kelly, 
 John McNeal, 
 James O'Brien, 
 James S. Pintard, 
 
 his 
 John A. X Higg«, 
 
 mark 
 F. Nesaelt, 
 Peter Bunch, 
 
 his 
 Moses X Storms, 
 mark 
 his 
 Cornelius X Bethel, 
 mark 
 
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 his 
 Sylvester X Green, 
 mark 
 his 
 Franic X Kemp, 
 mark 
 his 
 Benjamin X Rahminy, 
 
 mark 
 Edward McKinne}^, 
 
 Henry Dean, 
 
 Mathew Harrington, 
 George Hanna, 
 E. H. Bastian, 
 The Honorable Henry William Aust[n, 
 
 Late Chief Justice of the Bahama Islands : — 
 
 George Pritchard, 
 
 his 
 Nathaniel X Pinder, 
 mark 
 
 Alexander X Ferguson, 
 
 mark 
 George E. Goodman, 
 
 his 
 Charles X N. Bole, 
 
 mark 
 Samuel Knowles, 
 C. Dlllet, 
 Eliphalet A. E. Nabbie. 
 
 Nassau, May 21st, 1890, 
 Gentlemen, 
 
 I receive the numei-ously signed address you have been pleased 
 to present to me on my retirement from the Bench of this Colony 
 with feelings of graltude. 
 
 You ai'e right in coming to the conclusion that my resignation 
 has been forced upon nie by the proceodings of the Kxecutive, 
 and by the high-handed treatment I have been subjected to l>y 
 the Secretary of State of the Colonies. 
 
 The message of the Governor of the 25th of February last, to 
 which you specially refer, is only a portion of the insult and 
 injury I have had to submit to; but whether the Secretary of 
 State is answerable, in any degree, for the form the message 
 took remains yet to be established. 
 
 If you will wait a little you shall be put into possession of my 
 case in print, which, 1 think, will coi vince you that I have only 
 done my duty in the course I adopted .f resisting every attempt of 
 the Executive to intimidate and oppiess me, and thus to strike 
 a blow at the independence of the Bench in this Colony. Best 
 assured that there is no true liberty for the subject unless tho 
 
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 administration of justice is kept free from the control of the 
 Executive. 
 
 In taking the stand I have, you know me too well to think 
 that r have ever been influenced by pornonal considerations. I 
 am the victim, at present, of misrepi'csentation and falsehood, 
 and of a formedablo conspiracy, without havinj^ been afforded 
 nn opportunity of vindicating ray conduct. I have been con- 
 demned unheard. 
 
 Again thanking you for the confidence you have reposed in 
 me and for the sentiments you have so well expressed, believe 
 me, I shall remain your friend and well-wisher, and that I shall 
 always always take a deep interest in the Colony. 
 
 HENRY W. AUSTIN. 
 To Samuel J. Pinder, Esq. 
 
 Nassau, New Providence, May 24th, 1890. 
 
 The Honorable Henry William Austin, 
 
 Late Chief Justice of the Bahamas. 
 Sir, 
 
 As you have ceased to hold the office of Chief Justice of the 
 Bahamas, having received a retiring allowance from the 
 Legislature, and as you will soon be leaving our sho)-es, we can- 
 not allow you to depart without asking you to permit us to 
 expioss to you our feelings of respect and confidence. 
 
 Irrepi'oachable in your private character, and as (vhief Justice, 
 holding the scales and wielding the swoi'd with firm and even 
 hand, you have caused the seat of justice to be feared, respected 
 and trusted, and tempering severity with equity and mercy, you 
 have secured that it is neither hated nor despised. 
 
 We are confident that the vast majority of those who have had 
 intercourse with you or have in any way been oVtservant of your 
 conduct in your high office, feel with us that in losing you we 
 are losing an honest man, and a cousciention, fearless and 
 impaitial judge. 
 
 From our own knowledge wo can assjre you, that by very 
 many, especially by those of the lower and more helpless classes 
 of the community, youi* memory will l^e cherished with feelings 
 much deeper than those of mere respect. 
 
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 We believe that you will 
 consciouH of its own rectitude, 
 esteem, and our best wishes 
 prosperity. 
 
 Thos. M. Mathews,Q.C 
 
 M. E. Pyfrom. 
 
 Jos. Roker. 
 
 F. Bullard, M.H.A. 
 
 W. F. Albury. 
 
 H. C. Albury. 
 
 J. H. Lightboui'n. 
 
 W. E. Pritchard. 
 
 W. J. Henry. 
 
 H. F. Rahming. 
 
 W. F. Bethell. 
 
 Benj. Harris. 
 
 N. J. Bascome. 
 
 E. N. Murphy. 
 Eev. S. MePherson. 
 H. J. Thompson. 
 Horatio N. Knowles. 
 Henry F. Ramsay. 
 N. H. Curry. 
 R. H. Curry. 
 Philip Bullard,M.P. 
 Robt. H. Smith. 
 
 F. Mathews. 
 James Bullard. 
 Louis N. Duty. 
 R. B. Harris. 
 R. L. Kemp. 
 P. Lightbourn. 
 W. F. Harris. 
 Sam'l J. Bosfield. 
 Wm. B. Wake. 
 Adolphus T. S. Mineri 
 John A. Cox. 
 Jas. Brown. 
 Cbas. A. D. Broojj. 
 E. L. Moore. 
 
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 carry away with you a mind 
 and we assure you of our sincere 
 for your future happiness and 
 
 Alex. Bain. 
 George Profit. 
 Hidaro Clark. 
 Thomas Hy. Smith. 
 H. T. Rahwing. 
 Stephen Strachan. 
 Edward George. 
 W. I. Weech & Son. 
 E. W. Weech. 
 P. R. Burnside. 
 H. W. Lightburn. 
 Edward J. Webb, D.D.S. 
 P. W. D. Armbrister. 
 
 A. Sands. 
 C. T. Sands. 
 
 J. R. Saunders. 
 
 B. P. Sturrup. 
 James A. North. 
 E. S. Hall, M.L.A. 
 W. P. Sands, 
 
 R. W. Albury, D.D.S. 
 E. L. Sears. 
 Herbert F. Armbrister. 
 Nathaniel S. Elliott. 
 
 E. S. Bowen. 
 Thos. S. Hilton. 
 Jos. Duggs. 
 Walter Twynand. 
 
 F. A. Holmes, M.D. 
 A. A. Malcholm. 
 Thomas E. D. Brace. 
 
 j.S. Albert Dillot. 
 Yoncik Cbre. 
 
 G. W. Armbristrr. 
 Samuel H. Rees. 
 Thomas A. Styles. 
 
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 15 
 
 W. W. M. EaspasB. 
 
 A. F. Moore. 
 
 J. B. Moore. 
 
 W. H. Clarke. 
 
 Geo. K. K. Brace. 
 
 James W. B. Nicollb. 
 
 G. A. Bosfield. 
 
 W. S. Baillow. 
 
 E. Hamilton Burnside 
 
 W. B. Kemp. 
 
 W. B. ThomHon. 
 
 George G. Danville. 
 
 L. W. Lewis. 
 
 Wm. Enoch Johnson 
 
 E. F. Pyfrom. 
 
 Monday Eanger. 
 
 E. S. Maura. 
 
 T. C. Higgs. 
 
 O. P. Pritchard. 
 
 Joseph R Adduley. 
 
 John A. Kerr. 
 
 C. B. Thompson. 
 
 W. F. Claridge. 
 S. A. Kemp. 
 Aaron Thurston. 
 Henry Hylar. 
 George Wright. 
 Jacob Cunningham. 
 M. C. Munro. 
 Felix Love. 
 Eobert Butler. 
 Samuel Smith. 
 Alfred Storr. 
 James Lobo. 
 Samuel Styles. 
 Geo. Mackintosh. 
 George Davis. 
 James Duglass. 
 John Mitchell. 
 Geo. Bode. 
 George Marbey. 
 
 Geo. A. McGeorge, Jr. 
 
 G. E. Higgs. 
 
 H. W. T. Duncombe. 
 
 Eobert Biown. 
 
 E. Hittonburry. 
 
 Chiles S. Thompson. 
 
 Abraham Hepburn. 
 
 D. A. Brlce, M.H.A. 
 .C. W. P. Saunders. 
 
 E. H. Sands. 
 C. S. Miners. 
 K. G. Malcolm. 
 C. H. Baillare. 
 .William A. Styles. 
 
 Chas. McSweeney. 
 Samuel Poser. 
 Geo. Mackintosh. 
 James Adderley. 
 James Garrot. 
 Samuel Johnson. 
 Joseph Eose. 
 John B. Bostwick. 
 
 Hercules Ferguson, 
 Samuel A McGregor, S.P. 
 Ambrose Sisal. 
 Silvanus Stephens. 
 Henry W. Johnston. 
 Lewis Bell. 
 Thomas Brown. 
 Elijah Kemp. 
 Amos Eoberts. 
 Eobert Arenbuster. 
 Albert Arenbuster. 
 James Hanna. 
 James Light hour. 
 William Eahming. 
 
 Vincent Sands, 
 Frederick Pople. 
 Tabes Fernhs. 
 Andrew Knowlos. 
 
16 
 
 A. W. Smith, 
 A. Kitchio, 
 J. H. CuHtro, 
 John A. Gibson, 
 Joseph Wright, 
 Edwai-d C. Robebon, 
 Goo. J. Cliristio, 
 R. G. Sands, 
 A. C. Crawford, 
 iHiiiah Hepburn, 
 Felix. A. Kemp, 
 Samuel A, Patton, 
 William 0. Patton, 
 James F. Patton, 
 Geo, Fraser, 
 Samuel Saunders, 
 John J. Lord, 
 Wm. Colebrook, 
 John Colebrook, 
 Charlee Colebrook, 
 John Hyln, 
 Joseph Ulin, 
 Theo. Mussar, 
 Joseph Moligan, 
 John A. Brown, 
 John Williams, 
 Chas. M. Hall, 
 Samuel Morrison, 
 Earnest A. Forsyth, 
 Con. A. Sturrup, 
 Edward B. Sinclair, 
 Charles Anderson, 
 Moses Wright, 
 Joseph Perpall, 
 Ernest A. Morris, 
 Jacob Finlayson, 
 Ernest Brown, 
 James Love, 
 Henry Johnson, 
 Wm. J. Bap tie te, 
 
 W. C. H. Gray, 
 Geo. Wilson, 
 Alexander Bostiold, 
 Bobt. Lutler, 
 Wm. Henry Smith, 
 L. D. Fontain, 
 E. Souchaid, 
 J. H. Knowles, 
 Walter S. Wilson, 
 Benjamin Cockley, 
 Louis Cambridge, 
 Eaymond S. Patton, 
 Edward D. Putton, 
 Benj. E. Roberts, 
 Arthur Yuble, 
 Thomas Lynes, 
 Alex. Ncsbett, 
 James Casey, 
 Peter Cooper, 
 Robert G. Tylur, 
 C. Muicus, 
 Levy Johnson, 
 Robt. Green, 
 Cornelius Sturrup, 
 James Hiln, 
 George Huylan, 
 Smart Humes, 
 Prescord C. Forsyth, 
 Jeremiah A. E. Barnett, 
 John A. Holbert, 
 Charles Adderley, 
 David A. Hiln, 
 Maxwell Taylor, 
 Aarron A. Sturrup, 
 William Finlayson, 
 Joseph Cambridge, 
 Chas. J. Sturrup, 
 Abraham B. RoUe, 
 Wm. P. Kemp, 
 Samuel James, 
 
 
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 11 
 
 Joseph Lemander, 
 Samuel T. Morris, 
 John H. Bray men, 
 William Sandilands, 
 W. H. Carey, 
 James W. Mingo, 
 J. Seymore, 
 Zach. Murray, 
 Wm. Eobert Hudson, 
 Samuel Grant, 
 Ephraim J. Foote, 
 Joseph Welch, 
 Isaac P. Neily, 
 Joseph Colebrooke, 
 Henry Clinton, 
 Henry J. Fernandey, 
 John Williams, 
 William Anderson, 
 John Bahming, 
 Charles Demeiitt, 
 Eichai*d Smith, 
 George RoUe, 
 W. E. Martin, 
 William Hamilton, 
 Theophilus Fernandej^, 
 Frederick A. Wylly, 
 Samuel Finlayson, 
 Hercules C. Finder, 
 Stephen Lanada, 
 A. Ernest Brown, 
 J. H. Jeffries, 
 G. A. Freyth, 
 John A. Bridgwater, 
 Stephen A. McLeod, 
 Benjamino Ehodenwall, 
 Alfred B. Curry, 
 Thomas H. Bunch, 
 William A. Gihbs, 
 Theopalus D. Mac key, 
 William L. Hall, 
 
 James Hiln, 
 Joseph A. Braymen, 
 Josiah H. Cox, 
 Barclay W. Harton, 
 Joseph Lewis, 
 Samuel Cuningham, , 
 Thomas Lightburn, 
 Robert R. S. Gain bridge, 
 J. W. & C. Rahming, 
 Samuel Bain, 
 Wm. R. Ross, 
 F. Cambridge, 
 Cornelius Veaveance, 
 John E. Fernander, 
 William T. Bethel, 
 Thomas A. Edden, 
 Jeremiah Hannibal, 
 William B. Bamus, 
 Thomas Sneeting, 
 John H. Weir, 
 Fred Palacious, 
 Fred. B. Fountain, 
 Arabian Sweeting, 
 William S. Finder, 
 William E. Fountain, 
 Alexander X Col brook, 
 Reuben Finlayson, 
 James H. Wallace, 
 Adam Patten, 
 J. H. Minor, 
 S. S. Johnson, 
 S. M. A. Hannibal, 
 Samuel Roker, 
 William H. Basden, 
 Wilson B. Knowles, 
 William Lightbonrn, 
 Jamas Tait, 
 Alexander Burnside, 
 Julius Adderley, 
 Domingo Weir, 
 
18 
 
 F. R Carlt, 
 Henry Clinton, 
 
 G. N. Evans, 
 Henry Forbes, 
 Judah O. L, Fowler, 
 Robert W. Garcin, 
 Joseph Alex. Richardson, 
 George Smith,. 
 Theophilus W. Wallace, 
 Isaac J. W. Adams, 
 Samuel W. Sturrup, 
 William Whylly, 
 Edwin Poarce, 
 Nicholas Johnson, 
 
 C. Mesas, 
 Elymas Robinson, 
 Daniel D. Adderley, 
 Charles Evans, 
 Thomas H. Murray, 
 James Fernander, 
 Job A. Stevens, 
 John Tho.^. Rox borough, 
 Isaac A. Sturrup, 
 Isaac Cambridge, 
 Elijah N. Taylor, 
 John Armbrister, 
 Chas. C.Bosfield, 
 '^Wlliam C. Rahining, 
 John A. E. Ferguson, 
 James Scott, 
 James W. Hall, 
 John Astwood, 
 Samson Hunt, 
 J. S. Saunders, 
 John T. Wood, 
 William O. Love, 
 Yorick Brown, 
 William Elliott, 
 James Johnson, 
 Prank Holmes, 
 
 N. A. Bosfield, 
 John M. Leslie, 
 William Holbert, 
 John H. Bethel, jr., 
 R. S. & C. Crawford, 
 Samuel Russell, 
 David H. Roker, 
 Thomas Pearce, 
 George W. Weir, 
 H. G. Fountain, 
 Thomas N. Hulbert, 
 Phillip Fernander, 
 H. L. Witness, 
 Alexander Wright, 
 Leon C. H. Dupuch, M.P. 
 William B. Bamus, 
 Nathaniel H. Richardson, 
 John H. Bode, 
 Robert Jas. Barker, 
 Robt. B. Bnrnside, 
 R. M. LIghtbourn, 
 Julius A. Ferguson, 
 Joshha Keniip, 
 W. C. Antonia, 
 Auley Nixon, 
 Samuel Lightbourn, 
 Walter Mcintosh 
 Thomas Adderley, 
 Joseph A. Andrews, 
 Philip Ward, 
 Alfred E. Hunt, 
 Alexander W. Tucker, 
 Edward Saunders, 
 Richard A. Owens, 
 Israel Taylor, 
 James A. Wallace, 
 Epnriam Roole, 
 John Dean, 
 Samuel J. Forsyth, 
 Mel V in Augusta Tinder, 
 
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 19 
 
 I 
 
 William A. Grant, 
 CharleH Scott, 
 Peter Finlayson, 
 William Spencer, 
 Courtney A. BoHfiold, 
 James Tayloi-, 
 John E. Finlayson, 
 William Strachun, 
 TaddiouH Wagon, 
 Henry Sargiaus, 
 Joseph Sweeting, 
 George McPhoe, 
 Thomas Johnson, 
 Jeremiah Wehb, 
 George Mingo, 
 John Billet, 
 Joseph Cambridge, 
 Miguel Tinder, 
 JamcH A. Mara, 
 Jeremiah IJiitlar, 
 Robert A. Cai-ey, 
 Daniel Conyoers, 
 James Wright, 
 William Jones, 
 Richard C. Smith, 
 Alfred E. Biown, 
 P'rancisco Wilson, 
 Geo. M. Anderson, 
 Antoine Dames, 
 William Brinyard, 
 William M. Holbert, 
 Joseph I). Weir, 
 Walter B. Fountain, 
 James Shnay, 
 Carmichael Cambridge, 
 J. C. Smith, 
 Clarence C. Mason, 
 Eobert Finlavson, 
 James A. Williams, 
 Fred. E. A. Douglass, 
 
 William Maura, 
 Theophilus D. Mackey, 
 John A. Smith, 
 Edward McLeod, 
 John Black, 
 Frank Kemp, 
 George Strachan, 
 Isaac Lightbourn, 
 James Theophilus Sands, 
 Alexander Sands, 
 John A. Smith, 
 Edwaru II. McPhee, 
 James F. Wright, 
 Auliy Charles Grey, 
 G. A. Squint, 
 Joseph A. Koker, 
 Adam A. Patton, 
 Dundee Dorsett, 
 Adam Purguson, 
 James Dixson, 
 Arthur K Morris, 
 John Ed. Finlayson, 
 Ernest L. Bo wen, 
 Julius A. Burke, 
 Eichard Abeat Rathey, 
 Amos A. Wright, 
 James Jarrett, 
 William Pi-ice, 
 Thomas Koker, 
 Clarence E. Walker, 
 John Whitley, 
 Robert McKinnoy, 
 Allen Dean, 
 Israel McPhee, 
 Alfred Gibson, 
 Samuel Saunders, 
 Cyrus Mackey, 
 L. S. Grant, 
 George S. Douglass, 
 Cavil D. Wallace, 
 
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 20 
 
 Hoi'man A. Mason, 
 
 Kniest M. Mnson, 
 
 ChaH. Sloan, 
 
 Alexander W. Fisher, 
 
 V/illi:im S. Kuckhalm, 
 
 O. A. BanniHter, 
 
 David Syms, 
 
 G. C. Pinder, 
 
 Joseph Strachan, 
 
 Wellington Olander, 
 
 Adam J. Nicolls, 
 
 W. L. Roberts, 
 
 Henry Wylley, 
 
 T. H. Joseph, 
 
 William Scott, 
 
 James Butler, 
 
 James Wood, 
 
 John T. StoiT, 
 
 Samuel Strachn, 
 John Pyfriom, 
 Alex Paul, 
 Zachariah Hamilton, 
 Robert James Armbristgr, 
 James Henry Burnsido, 
 Alexander Wood, 
 Joseph A. Grimes, 
 Naaman Stirrup, 
 Alfred Siha, 
 Daniel Biggs, 
 Jacob Addeley, 
 Vincent S. Mathews, 
 Samuel Smith, 
 John Perpall, 
 Horahi A. Simons, 
 Wilferd P. Adderley, 
 Joseph Bo wen, 
 Edward Wallace, 
 S. R. Lightbourn, 
 Jno.Wm. Mathews, D.P.Nl. 
 Thadrach N. Smith, 
 
 Alfred C. Pinder, 
 Robt, A. Moars, 
 James E. KcKinney, 
 William B. Lind, 
 Ricando A. Francis, 
 Charles G. Kvans, 
 Austin Evans, 
 Cornelius O. Baraus, 
 James E. Tait, 
 Joseph Clarke, 
 S. W. Roberts, 
 John Rahming, 
 Joseph Wallace, 
 Adolphus Cambridge, 
 James Scott, 
 Prince Mackey, 
 Henry Bradford, 
 James Tleate, 
 William Parrington, 
 James Joseph, 
 Isaac Grant, 
 Henry Munnings, 
 Joseph A. Thompson, 
 
 Zachari .h Sandelands, 
 
 Alfred Meadows, 
 
 Anthony A. Rahming, 
 
 John King, 
 
 George C. Smith, 
 
 John A. Dean, 
 
 Joshua B. Ferguson, 
 
 James Lobo, 
 
 George Simons, 
 
 Erasmus Wallace, 
 
 Michael Ingraham, 
 
 James Thompson, 
 
 Isaac Conningham, 
 
 E. Rhleveauc, 
 
 John Butler, 
 
 Richard Byas, 
 
 Samuel E. Frith, 
 
 4 
 
I 
 
 i 
 
 I 
 
 Tho8. Timothy Mannings, 
 John A. Cltirke, 
 Israol Adtlerloy, 
 CharleH Gooabrook, 
 Robert WilHeld, 
 .Tas. W. ThompHon, 
 A. K. lleHter, 
 John O'Biion, 
 John A. AndrewH, 
 ThomaH Fullbid, 
 Aloxandei- Finlayson, 
 Homy Thuoy, 
 Frank Sargent, 
 Fletcher Pearee, 
 Joseph Willson, 
 John Bain, 
 Prosper Reid, 
 Richard Chipman, 
 Charles Harva, 
 John Roberts, 
 John Marshall, 
 John Macloar, 
 Arthur Nearn, 
 Mattha Zobe, 
 Alexander Marshall, 
 John Thomas Adderley, 
 Sollaraan Butbar, 
 John Smith, 
 Edward Sargant, 
 Thomas Adderley, 
 Henra Whyla, 
 Zacrias Kemp, 
 Edwai-d Palacious, 
 William Fowlar, 
 Thomas Bovda, 
 "William Higgs, 
 William Curtis, 
 Samuel William Cole, 
 Julious Adderley, 
 Richard Smith, 
 
 Mark Goodman, 
 
 Isaac Symmonnett, 
 
 Robert Dughs, 
 
 John A. Kneas, 
 
 E. S. Dalzile, 
 
 W. G. Cambridge, 
 
 Alfred Drysuch, 
 
 Samson Wood, 
 
 William Higgs, 
 
 Alexander Adderley, 
 
 Charles Smith, 
 
 Caleb Thurtall, 
 
 John Goodman, 
 
 (ieorge Bunch, 
 
 Martin Srwyor, 
 
 Jacob Taylor, 
 
 James Johnson, 
 
 Frcdric Charlor, 
 Peter Webb, 
 
 Joseph Macharda, 
 
 Evans Palacious, 
 Camarall Kahnard, 
 
 James David, 
 
 Alexander Marshall, 
 Samson Devoux, 
 John Dene, 
 John Smith, 
 Samuell Podmore, 
 William Willson, 
 James Taylor, 
 James PiP'tiver, 
 Thomas Butlar, 
 Walter Demeritt, 
 Feprick Fariongton, 
 Alexander Walker, 
 Benjaman Furgarson, 
 Edward Cambridge, 
 Joseph Longla, 
 Edward Clare, 
 Rapture Allin, 
 
22 
 
 JumoH ThompisoM, 
 
 Iniuh Robo, 
 
 JumoH Wood, 
 
 Alexander BurriHido, 
 
 Uiclmrd Taylor, 
 
 MoHOM Wright, 
 
 Samuol WilliatTiM, 
 
 July Williams, 
 
 John Armbrirtter, 
 
 Poter Finlayson, 
 
 John P.i'ook, 
 
 John Winhia, 
 
 LoIh Keinj), 
 
 Anthona Kemp, 
 
 JiitiouM Williams, 
 
 John MarHhall, 
 
 Thomaw Johnson, 
 
 Bonjaman Taylor, 
 
 Samuel Meadows, 
 
 William Butlrr, 
 
 8amuol Millor, 
 
 Benjamin Storr, 
 
 Thomas K O. Nabbic, 
 
 Alexander Ncsbilt, 
 
 Albert Outhcii, 
 lly. M. ByiidloHs, 
 Edward LaMotto, 
 Alfred T. Johnson, 
 James ¥. Knowles, 
 Goori^o O. Eoxboroiiy;h, 
 Clayton J. Frc ich, 
 Francis Cancino, 
 J. Bloard, 
 
 John Spence, 
 JamoH K. TliompHon, 
 Albert Wood, 
 Nathanieiil Purtior, 
 George Stophanson, 
 Velington Bain, 
 Thomas Pinder, 
 (loorgc Evanw, 
 Samuel Mirms, 
 Peter Mea<lows, 
 (Toorge Stuorth, 
 John Meadows, 
 John Roberts, 
 John Williams, 
 Poter Booda, 
 (iooi'ge Marshall, 
 Peter Duncombe, 
 Charles Addosloy, 
 George Webb, 
 C. A. Butler, 
 James A. Rodgors, 
 (lOoi'ge W. Wood, 
 James A. Nabbic, senr., 
 Alexandor Sands, 
 All'. A. M'Culloch, 
 Thos. McKinzio, 
 Logmund Lippman, 
 James Martindale, 
 Samuol Murray, 
 John A. Roxborough, 
 Israel Gardiner, 
 J. H. Boll, A.P.M. 
 H. Perpall.