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added, making allowance
20 weeks. er
five months, to enable him to revisit
Europe for the purpose of consulting
and seeing
2.
his family
do clow
n
The reply, which I directed to be sent to Mr. Smale, whilst offering him leave on part Salary, pointed out the impossibility of my giving him leave of absence on full Salary, unless I am prepared to abolish the Supreme Court whilst Mr. Smale is revisiting his family in England.
3.
It will be observed that he refers
to
Enclosure 1.3.
The Summary Jurisdiction Court Ordinance (May of 1862), and assumes
that the
Judge of
that Court is constituted his Deputy for
all such
Jurisdiction
as he
may
direct, and
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that this
was
the main object of his
appointment as though the Colony
ever
intended to
appoint a supplementary Judge with "the main object"
of giving the Chief Justice control over the
time and services
of so highly paid an
Official merely to secure
for himself.
4.
a long
vacation
In a despatch West of the 28th March 1862 Six Hercules Robinson, when
transmitting the Ordinance in question states
that,
as
it
was
thought the
new
Judge's
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time would not be sufficiently occupied
"Provision had therefore been made by
one
of the clauses of the Ordinance to remit to
The Assistant judge for trial, from time to
time such
cases from the Supreme Court