An Act to enable all His Majesty’s free-born coloured Male British Subjects to sit as Jurors on all Trials and Coroner’s Inquests within these Islands.

AN ACT to enable all His Majesty’s free-born coloured Male British Subjects to sit as Jurors on all Trials and Coroners’ Inquests within these Islands.

WHEREAS doubts have arisen how far the free coloured inhabitants of these islands are eligible to the discharge of certain duties and offices within this Govern­ment; for remedy whereof be it enacted, by his Excellency Sir James Campbell, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Island of Grenada and its dependencies, the members of His Majesty’s Council, and the representatives of the people in General Assembly convened: [Clause 1.] and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, that from and after the publication of this Act, all the free-born coloured male British subjects within these islands, being freeholders, merchants, traders, managers or chief overseers of plantations, or lessees of estates, shall be liable to serve as petty jurors in criminal cases, and as jurors in all trials between party and party in the supreme court of judicature and coroners’ inquests. And the Provost Marshal-General, or his lawful deputy, is and are hereby directed and required to summon each and every of them, in the same manner as is prescribed by laws hitherto in force with regard to other jurors.

Passed the Assembly, this 24th day of November 1828.

(signed) John Ch. Ker, Clerk of Assembly.

Passed the Council, this 24th day of November 1828.

(signed) W. A. Horne, Acting Clerk of Council.

Dated at Saint George’s, in the said Island of Grenada, this 25th day of No­vember, in the year of our Lord 1828, and of His Majesty’s reign the ninth.

(signed) Dan. Gibbs, Speaker.

Assented to by his Excellency the Governor and Commander-in-Chief, this 25th day of November, in the year of our Lord 1828, and in the ninth year of His Majesty’s reign.

(signed) W. A. Horne, Acting Clerk of Council.

Duly published in the town of Saint George, in the Island of Grenada, this 25th day of November, in the year of our Lord 1828, and in the ninth year of his Majesty’s reign.

(signed)            John Douglas, Acting P. M. G.

(signed)            JAMES (L.M.S.) CAMPBELL.