A second pattern of local government has…

A second pattern of local government has developed in Dominica, Grenada, St. Vincent, the Grenadines, and Tobago.

All had been ceded by France to Britain under the Treaty of Paris of 1763, although France had succeeded in temporarily recapturing them in the late 1770s or early 1780s.

Like the older British territories in the Caribbean, these "ceded islands" also have assemblies.

However, the small size of the free landholding population in these islands vitiates the functions of the assemblies and precludes development of a viable system of local government such as has developed in Jamaica and Barbados.