que an hve, for
too great
an increase
of the Judges Salary. From this it will be ferceived, that my application, if the Bill passes in its entirety, is for £500 per additional Salary.
Attumm
There is one
further remark which I think it proper to make. If my Salary is increased to the extent suggested, it by no means follows that the Government is
obligation to grant to my Sinccefor
Succefor a Salary of the like
The principle is
unter an
amount.
well recognized that where an officer has been in discharge of duties of a certain clap and
extent, and duties of quite
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different
clap and extent are infrequently imposed upon him, the Salary of anch officer, as
so long
long as he holds the spice, shall be increased but not necesarily the Salary of the office. This, I take it, is a sonus practical new of the question and widently presupposes a quasi-Contract betiven the Government and its Officer. It will be
if
seen, moreover, that , was adopied in the recent Imperial Statute to which I have before had recasion to refer (See 28 and 29 Victoria Chapter 99, Section 15.
I think I ought not b