Legislative Council
Council
may be disallowed
First Because a Council, with one exception, of official persons in which the public has no voice, and to which the Public is not admitted, ought not by Ordinance to regulate the fees and conduct of the business
of the Supreme Court, and fetter the freedom of the Judge's action; but that whatever changes are made of this nature should be done by Regulae Generales, framed by the Judge, and without the practitioners' Communication, according to the uniform practice in England and hitherto in Colony, and not by Legislative Enactments
Secondly Because the fees proposed to be allowed are insufficient, regard being had to the Expenses of Solicitors given to House Rent Labour and provisions in this Colony, which are about 200 percent above those in England, whereas the fees contained are less than those allowed in England.
Thirdly - Because the fees to Counsel are fixed, whereas they should be left, as in England, to the discretion of the solicitors, subject to the Control of the Taxing officer, and they are, for the most part, fixed at too high a rate, being in some instances far higher than those allowed in England.