CHAPTER V.
THE APPRENTICESHIP SYSTEM.
The nature of the apprenticeship system may be learned form the following abstract of its provisions, relative to the three parties chiefly concerned in its operation--the special magistrate, the master, and the apprentice.
PROVISIONS RESPECTING THE SPECIAL MAGISTRATES.
1.

They must be disconnected with planters and plantership, that they may be independent of all colonial parties and interests whatever.
2.

The special magistrates adjudicate only in cases where the master and apprentice are parties.

Offences committed by apprentices against any person not connected with the estates on which they live, come under the cognizance of the local magistrates or of higher courts.
3.

The special justices sit three days in the week at their offices, where all complaints are carried, both by the master and apprentice.