The magistrates do not go the estate, either to try or to punish offenders.
Besides, the three days the magistrates are required to be at home every Saturday, (that being the day on which the apprentices are disengaged,) to give friendly advice and instruction on points of law and personal rights to all apprentices who may call.
PROVISIONS RESPECTING THE MASTER.
1.

The master is allowed the gratuitous labor of the apprentice for forty-five hours each week.

The several islands were permitted by the English government to make such a division of this time as local circumstances might seem to require.

In some islands, as for instance in St.Christopher's and Tortola, it is spread over six days of the week in proportions of seven and a half hours per day, thus leaving the apprentice mere shreds of time in which he can accomplish nothing for himself.

In Barbadoes, the forty-five hours is confined within five days, in portions of nine hours per day.
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