² Cruickshank, I, 186–7.

^{page 164 note 1} Select Committee, 1842, Report, (i), (iv), (v).

^{page 164 note 2} Cf. Cruickshank, I, 194.

^{page 164 note 3} Ibid., I, 195.

^{page 165 note 1} Ibid., I, 288.

^{page 165 note 2} Not all the allied chiefs signed the Bond at the time. I have not yet been able to trace whether (and, if so, when) the rest adhered to the Treaty; but this point is not mentioned by any of the authorities as affecting the jurisdiction thereafter claimed by the British over the whole Protectorate.

^{page 165 note 3} The enforcement of a claim by seizure of the debtor or one of his relatives.

^{page 165 note 4} Sarbah, Fante National Constitution, 99.

^{page 165 note 5} Hence domestic slavery was tolerated in the Protectorate until the Slaves Emancipation Ordinance of 1874.

^{page 166 note 1} Cape Coast Castle, Dixcove, Anomabu, James Fort, Winnebah.

^{page 166 note 2} The Legislative Council consisted of two officials and two nominated unofficials, all Europeans.

^{page 167 note 1} He replaced Cruickshank in 1850, Cruickshank having succeeded Maclean in 1847 on the latter's death.

^{page 167 note 2} Several of the Assessors, notably Cruickshank, Marshall and Chalmers, expressed their favourable opinion of native customary law as the appropriate legal system for natives; Marshall thought the customary law better suited to the native population than “our elaborate and intricate laws of real and personal property”. This system of law “it would be better to guide, modify and amend, rather than to destroy by ordinances and force”.

^{page 168 note 1} For a list of holders of the office of Judicial Assessor, see the Table post, at p. 170.

^{page 169 note 1} Sources: Sarbah, “Maclean, etc.”, 9 J. A. S. 349; and other references.

^{page 169 note 2} Fitzpatrick appointed in 1850 acc. to Sarbah.

^{page 169 note 3} 1873 acc. to Marshall; cf. 16 J. Anthropological Inst. 181; 1872 ace. to Sarbah, 9 J.A.S. 349.