JAMAICA
We submit to our readers a report of the proceedings of the house of assembly at Jamaica :—
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Your committee also recommend, that the undermentioned persons should receive the sums set opposite to their respective names :—
... —Robert, belonging to Petersfield, in Westmoreland, for defending the horses belonging to the militia, the night on which Dean's Valley was attacked, the sum of 10l. 13s. 4d.
... —James Thomas Lawson, head driver of Petersfield, in Westmoreland, for keeping the negroes of that property manufacturing sugar during all the time of the disturbance, the sume of 10l. 13s. 4d.—Thomas Dixon, James McLeod, William Miles, James Lawson, James Harvey, Catherine McNeil, all to Petersfield, for extraordinary fidelity, each the sum of 10l. 13s. 4d.
Your committee recommend that there be paid to William Shilleto, Esq. to be by him distributed, amongst such of his slaves as were most meritorious, the sum of 40l.—Your committee further recommend that there be paid to the order of James Lawson and Thomas McNeil, Esqrs. to be distributed amongst such of the slaves of Petersfield estate, in Westmoreland, as displayed the most meritorious conduct during the late rebellion, the sum of 40l.