The contents are as follows: (i) Rough notes, 1831, on the right of the British Crown to legislate by decree of Privy Council for Demerara (folio 1); (ii) Draft legislation, ?1830-1833, concerning poor relief, employment law, the suppression of vagrancy, and the abolition of domestic slavery (folio 13); (iii) Draft legislation, ?1832-1833, concerning the proposed emancipation of slaves (folio 73); (iv) Memoranda, ?1833, on recent demographic trends among the slave population (folio 95); (v) Critical comments, ?1833, on a report on Demerara's slave population (folio 103).