The pleasure of Her hajesty's Government that the Rules of Court should be
to the approval of the
subject to the
Legislature
was
early combated
the
ground of
by Mr Hulme, on his alleged "dignity", and I had
in
hoped that he would acquieses in the instructions
conveyed your Lordship's bepated t. 12 of August 15th- which observed with reference to the above allegation that as "to
compromise,
by
any
69
other Colonial dependencies of
the
Crown"
hairly
Your Lordships will infer from the conchising Paragraph of Mr Hulme's enclosed Letter that he is prepared to submit to the disallowance by Her Majesty This past Rubes, or the _ approval by the local Legis= lature this future
ones.
• As head of the Supreme
Court, he observer, I of course
this mode
of
am
promising, of the rights or dignity the Supreme Court, it seems
Jay
that the
sufficient to course which has been
now
established in regard to these matters in Hongkong has abreasy been established in all the
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responsible for it's proper working. This responsibility. willingly bear is
long
as
entrusted with the entire
I
management of the Court; but if I
am
am
allowed to act
only the part of a Paitne fisse, and this Court should hereafter