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the Appointment of Stipendiary Magistrates in the Story superseded the ordinary duties and services of the Justices of the Peace in Sessions. In that view His Excellency convened in every instance in which it was stated, and it was understood that the Justices were not expected to attend the Petty Sessions, unless invited to do so upon the occasion of some extraordinary cases requiring adjudication. Notwithstanding this, His Excellency having thought it necessary to call for a return of the attendances at Sessions of the Official Justices, we deemed it necessary to make enquiries as to the attendance of the Justices "holding other official Appointments", and who, being in the immediate Service of Government, might reasonably be expected to pay at least the same attention to their Magisterial duties as their Official Coadjutors;
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and that there had been no reasonable ground for supposing that the Justices holding other official appointments, if we except the one lay member of the Legislative Council, had failed to attend when applied to to assist the Stipendiary Magistrates in cases of importance. So far as we can ascertain no non-official Justice, upon being applied to, declined to attend.