difficulty by the apparent impracticability
you will
yo
of obtaining a substitute, I beg that
y solicit His Excellency the Governor to suspend its operation until it shall have Receives further consideration with despect to the facts Inow propose to lay before you .
The Chief Magistrate of Police of this Colony, besides his ordinary duties us police- magistrate, has others imposed by Colonial Erdinances which are performable by himself alone ; he has the general supervision of the Folice force; and, as Commissoner of the Court of Admiralty, has to take the depositines and
to sit on the trial in
other matter.
every
case
e of Piracy
coming within the jurisdiction
of that Curt . His duties in
are
likely
this last.
to increase with the
od for the
means used
capacity effectiveness of the suppression of Piracy,
already
and with the others
mentioned Require for their proper performance nearly his whole time and
attentions.
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His Excellency the late Governor fixed
1200£ a
ear as a
a year
as a suitable salary for the office of the Chief Magistrate of police without deference to that of Sheriff or
Prevost. Marshal. These
avere
imposed
afterwards by a Wespatch from the Right Honorable the secretary for the tectonics -
remuneration
No rew
AV
was provided for
the
additional expense incurred:
& for the services of Deputy Sheriff, (on whom for the leasons above stated nearly the whole of the duties of Sheriff must fall; of bailiffs, printing, other unavoidable charges;
and
and a
upon.
various
weight of Responsibility
laid
the Chief Magistrats, of little conseguen indeed to the public, but which may
be
вет
more Quinous in its Results to himself.
through.
the
errors or
negligence of his
subordinates, than would be his
own mie
- conduct in the performance of any of Lis