But such a provision approved be superfluous

and unnecessary

would be precisely equivalent to an enactment that the Court

should enforce such

Laws as the Governor

should direct it to enforce?

The Clauses 24, 28-7-8-9-30, 32, 34, 35-6-7-8-9-40-44 & 50 to 59

and 62 to 67 all relate to matters of

form and practice

and

which ought to be regulated not by actual Law, but by Rules of Court, which might be the subject of continued revision and amendment by the Court itself.

122

The Clause, N. 69 70 and 71, regulate

appeals to the Queen in Council. This is not the proper subject of Colonial Legislation. It is for Her Majesty to determine, what Appeals she will receive and on what Conditions.

From Clauses 72 to

go closely connected with the Law

a

respecting Juries.

and

an Act

I object to these Clauses first as being out

of place in an Act of this kind; and simply because,

as I am

unacquainted with

any explanatory reference, the

policy of them is unintelligible to me

V.

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