painfully disappointed ; I discovered that I had been totally
puvate practice (under
mistaken and misled as to
amount of duties
my case entirely out! cucumstances & Matter of
any cucur the expenses of living, and that
uncertain speculation) was
in
requered at the question; And that the Native and
trands
Jon
of
Various Capacities of Coron
Solicitor Coroner, and Sheriff in charge of the
Dail
were
Absolutely impossible for any unassisted person to discharge,
capacities
ever
these
at a time that I find myself utterly unable to meet their
which I am connected will often reopene my Secried I do not possess . The heads of Departments with and advantages for working that
for their due discharge
amongst three or four Exepartments, each with facilities
and I may observe that the duties now
prorously to my entering upon them divided:
required of me in
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puvate Praches, even
Requirements, nor could it be possible for
me to undertake
om.
the management of their becseness, presed upon of any one would cibust to ne
as Jam
upon careful consideration, I feel certain the unassisted discharge of Public cluties; and I evill
here observe that
out of the Number of Inquist's which I have held
attubutable to the present disturbed Stake of the Colony ;
that this press of business is not by any means
Sence
my
Anival.
one
perhaps.
or at most hoo cases.
while from the best information I have been able to
can be concured to be attributable to the present crises,
now
Than
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impannelling and Sense of Summe
less frequent,
ordinay tuned, The Obtain Peracy cases are
upon
12
32
once
436
months)
-Upson Jurors ( Criminal sessions being held Trafting and
engrossing upon parchment of Information service of same with Summon's upon presonus, (the Copies:
being puessanty made in the Chinese, if the Prisoners are Chinese ) : The preparation and Sewic
and Service of Subpoenas expon
the Witnesses in different parts of the Colony : The seeing that such Witnesses, and all neussary proofs forthcoming when required, are disties which
- are miest press repon me whatever the circumstances of
The
are
my neussary
Colony : I find my Salary wholly inadequate to the expensiveness of the place and Support putting out of the question the maintaining
Government Official .
- me to state that after
of a respectable position as a It will surely be sufficient for. paying the Ront of a small and inconvenient Room
of about Eight feet Square for transaction of public: business solely, and after defraying the Salary of
a
a
word of
Young lad, merely a Copying Click, and Searby able to speak for understand a English, I have only a balance of £181 per Annum to meet all other expended for myself here, and a
here, and a large family
At home, and I am at the present moment, furthermore, to pay a Bailiff ( difficult wen to be proumed, except
me in
Subpanning
nowac
when steadily employed) for assisting 74 Witnessed for the present sessions. It is Month since Jentued
on the Civil duties of Sheriff, and the feed in that time have not averaged Dollar Pr week. So that I can intitain little hope
Jevo.