justices to transfer any
Supreme Pet to the
any
time
of
they
Court, dur
200
during
the Proceedings; and-
as there will always, I trust, be one Mercantile Gentleman on the Bench, it will be the fault of the community if the interests of the Chinese
are not properly cared for.
9.
With Respect to the 10th
Section of this Ordinance, I now
beg to submit to your Lordship
the following grounds, as those
more immediately calling for its
enactment.
The migratory boat population of
require
the Colony
Court of
frequent
limited jurisdiction when
sittings would be
more frequent than the monthly ones of Supreme Court sitting in its
summary jurisdiction. It is also most probable that the suitors availing themselves of this section will be for
the most part, if not
altogether, Chinese; and by
resorting to this Tribunal, they will not only be exempt from the
formal proceedings of the upper Court, but also from sundry expenses incidental to the forms and proceedings necessary
in that
Jurisdiction.
10.
With these Remarks, and
referring to my former Despatch of the 18th June last, No 30, on the subject, for any further information that may be
deemed requisite, I enclose
an authenticated Copy of Ordinance
No 5 of 1849, which passed the