case, but it was not considered necessary to first demand security for costs, to the amount of $5000, but even this was waived, in consequence of the Governor's wishes, in order to bring the case to issue and trial. In other colonies the law officers of the Crown receiving a regular salary or fees, are paid by the Colonial Treasury in cases in which Magistrates and other officers of the Government are concerned. When I was Acting King's Procureur General in Mauritius during the existence of the slave trade, I was paid by fees; and, in all cases relating to the Customs, Protector of Slaves, &c., I was paid by Government if the officers failed or were unable to recover costs; but by the opposite party when the same was practicable.
(Signed) Charles Molloy Campbell.
P.S. The costs can be recovered whenever the Plaintiffs here succeed, or they may be sued for it in Macao.
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(Signed) L. B. Hillier.
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