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# Legislation.
10.
passed
The Ordinances that were
in 1869 were four in number of which the most important were
those relating to the regulation
of
the Harbor, the enrolment of 1 of 1862
Volunteer Corps, the prohibition 2 of 1862 by proclamation (if necessary) of
the export of munitions of War, 3 of 1862 the abolishing of the Offices of Chief Magistrate and Assistant Magistrate, 6 of 1862 the establishing of a Court of Summary Jurisdiction, the Post Office Ordinance, I of 1862
and the Police Ordinance.
# Departments
11.
The
State
of
the various
9 of 1862.
Departments of the Public Service of the Colony
the whole satisfactory.
is on the whole satisfactory.
The Harbour Master is the only Head
of a Department absent from the Colony, but his absence does not impair the Efficiency of the service
as far as the duties of the Office
are
concerned. I have to note the abolition
during the year of the Offices of Chief Magistrate and Assistant Magistrate, the substitution of two Police Magistrates with equal powers, and the constituting
of a Court of Summary Jurisdiction, the Judge of which (in the absence of Mr. Adams who left in April last) is acting as Chief Justice while Mr. Whyte the Police Magistrate is...
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