in a well grounded complaint
the want of interpreters in the Supreme Court, and the desire to obtain the services of a young Chinese educated in America
who offered satisfactory conditions
offered in the accompanying
letter from ... to the Chief Justice, whose reply
is also transmitted.
The Chief Justice's objection was considered valid, and
provision is accordingly made in the Ordinance by which the two offices of Court Interpreter and Attorney's Clerk cannot be held together.
I beg on this point to refer
to Mr Attorney General Austin's letter of 18th May, and the Colonial
Secretary's reply
The Attorney General of the Court
requested, and
were allowed, to
be heard by counsel against the
Ordinance, which received seven
modifications in its various stages.
The Chief Justice and Mr Edgar voted against some of the clauses, and for Edgar's dissent written after the reading will be found in the accompanying correspondence
The Governor expressed a wish that his letter above mentioned should
be forwarded with the Ordinance,