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Burnaby's Code is thought to have been drafted during March 1765, or during the first week of April 1765. Details of its creation are uncertain, though it is commonly thought to have involved little deviation from the custom of the Bay, being rather a written, explicit record of the settlement's 17th and 18th century constitution and common law.
The code was an amalgamation of Royal Navy law and customary practices in existence in the settlement and was signed by the inhabitants, which included two women. [42] Another conflict between England and Spain erupted in 1779 and ended with the Spanish crown allowing again, per the 1783 Treaty of Versailles , for the British colony to remain ...
In 1765 Rear Admiral Sir William Burnaby, commander-in-chief of Jamaica, arrived in the settlement and codified and expanded their regulations into a document known as Burnaby's Code. When the settlers began returning to the area in 1784, [ clarification needed ] the governor of Jamaica named Colonel Edward Marcus Despard as superintendent to ...
A set of regulations called "Burnaby's Code" was adopted in 1765, which continued in force until 1840, when an executive council was created. Also in 1840, the colony formally became known as British Honduras, although it was also referred to as "the Belize".
In 1765 he sailed to Belize at the request of the loggers there to protect them from Spanish attacks, drawing up a Civil Law for the colony called Burnaby's Code, which some claim to be the world's first constitution [5] and that has been signed by two women. He returned to England in 1767 and on 31 October 1767 was created a baronet.
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Burnaby is a city in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia, Canada.Located in the centre of the Burrard Peninsula, it neighbours the City of Vancouver to the west, the District of North Vancouver across the confluence of the Burrard Inlet with its Indian Arm to the north, Port Moody and Coquitlam to the east, New Westminster and Surrey across the Fraser River to the southeast, and ...