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they will be disposed to pay regard to the laws under which they are permitted to reside. To ensure efficiency, and to secure, to a certain extent, the confidence of the Government and of the Public, this office must therefore be held by some one who has had some previous training in the Department, who is acquainted with the inhabitants and their peculiar characters, as well as with the requirements of the Colony; and I therefore deliberately record my opinion that, on no account, should this office of Assistant Magistrate and Sheriff be abolished; but whether it should be held by Holdforth, or by Mr Inglis the Registrar-General, will remain for Your Lordship to decide. "Their respective claims and aptitude for Office will be found appended to their names in the Schedules, wherein I have considered it my duty to state my opinion of the characters of the Officers of this Government generally.
Police Department.
17. In my Despatch No. 104 of the 26th Instant, I have already reported that I have made considerable alterations and reductions in this Department. The Establishment always appeared to me to be disproportionately large, and I am in hopes that the number of Policemen that I have sanctioned will prove sufficient.