precisely the same, the Attorney
receives of 1500. a year General receives
with private practice. Scannor but think that if the subject be brought to the notice
of the bolonial office, it will be consi.
dered that the Attorney General
of HongKong has a
fair
claim
to be placed upon the same
footing. The Attorney General
now derives
very
Little benefit
from private practice owing to I the decline of Legal Business
in the Colony. With reference to this I may mention that during
the year 1867 (in which I wen't?
home on sick leave) 24 bauses were
tried in the Supreme bourt, in which the aggregate of the Debts
or Damages claimed amounted to nearly five millions of Bollars whereas during the last 6 months only two bases have been tried
in which bownsel were
one of them being
engaged
an old suit
commenced more than 2
years
ago, and the other a bommon jury base of a very trifling tha. -racter.dm both bases Junior bounsel only appeared.
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