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"though I would respectfully suggest that he be relieved from the Office of Marine Magistrate, and those services be made over to the sitting Magistrate of the Police Court — the details of the Marine Magistrate's Office are slight, not averaging more than six cases per month, and will entail very little additional labour upon the Court of Chief Magistrate, where these duties have been often performed during the absence or sickness of the Marine Magistrate" — and your Lordship will perceive
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"that Captain Watkins pleads for House Rent on the ground of his being Marine Magistrate, but when House accommodation was permitted to the Harbour Master and Marine Magistrate, that functionary was allowed, vide Despatch N.46 of 12 April, to live in his Office: the exigencies of the service having rendered it necessary to transfer the Civil Hospital to the Harbour Master's Hill and the Harbour Master's Office to the Eastern side of the lower floor of the Supreme Court — and within 20 feet of the Sea: this measure of course deprived Captain Watkins
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