Jamaican Legislative Council

“ The parishes of Portland and Saint George, with the Manchioneal district of the parish of Saint Thomas in the East, extending south to Hector’s River, and a straight line drawn between the source of that river and the nearest source of the Rio Grande, shall constitute one parish, under the name of the parish of Portland, and the town of Port Antonio shall be the parish town thereof. ”

“ Seventeenth— All process and proceedings pending in the now existing circuit and other courts shall be dealt with and determined in the courts of the several parishes respectively constituted under this law, in like manner as they would have been had such process or proceeding been commenced after the coming into operation hereof; and all persons bound by recognizance to give their attendance at the said circuit courts shall be required to attend at the respective courts hereby appointed to be held in lieu thereof, and the respective clerks of the peace shall give notice thereof accordingly. ”

“ The governor shall be empowered, at his pleasure, to remove any of the persons named as churchwardens of any parish appointed under this law, or “The Law No. 8 of 1866 and from time to time to appoint others in their places, and to make fresh appointments in cases of vacancy.
Sixth—The governor may select any one of the custodes of any formerly existing parishes, consolidated by this law, to be the custos of the parish constituted under this law, with jurisdiction over the whole area of the enlarged parish ”