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It is expedient to transmit for Your Lordship's information the actual application (14 July) which I received from the Chief Justice on the subject, also my reply thereto, in which I availed myself of the opportunity to convey to him your Lordship's decision on several points raised in a former correspondence. Vide Gov to S. S. No 483.
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The subject of his letter including the 34 April 1869 interpretation of his powers under the Summary Court Ordinance (No 7 of 1862).
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As Mr Smale, in acknowledging that letter, speaks of there being so able a Bar practising here at present that in making the arrangements necessary to surmount the difficulties caused by the absence of the Chief Justice and the Judge of the Summary Court at the same time, it would be an embarrassment of choice only. I take the liberty of remarking that there is little foundation for such an extraordinary statement.
3. Including Mr Hallyar, a new addition to the Bar, there are only three practising Barristers here besides the Attorney General, and as two absent judges have to be provided for, the very important duties of the Attorney General have to be provided for by appointments from those four Barristers, whilst some counsel must be left available for the Public. I submit that the assertion of the Chief Justice is entirely opposed to...