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the salary of the Judge
( 7 ) The right of the judge
vcreade
of salary,
mere
increased,
to
the jurisdiction
the
is in effect admitted as proposed scheme to extend the juris= -diction is, upon his application, abandoned and a Draft Ordinance is published in the Gazette from which the clauses increasing the jurisdiction beyond Five Hundred Dollars have been omitted,
and wherein
no-
mention whatever is
made of a jurisdiction in
Equity.
Upon these facts I would venture
a
to submit that the Colony has perfectly good claim to the Ordinance as originally drafted, that it is
embarassing to the Judge
very
and cannot
tend to create a favorable impression -
upon
the minds of those
among.
st whom
we dwell if he has continually to explain why his hands are tied why in effect a Court of Justice is incapable of doing a justice especially when everybody Knows that the evil admits of so easy a remedy and I would, in conclusion, express a hope that the Secretary of State may give
such directions
a.u
will prevent the desire of the whole profession of this beclony from being disregarded and provide an appropriate tribunal for the settlement of small claims low and in Equity.
both at low and
I have X
Signed / Henry John BBoll.
(True Copy)
Colonial Secretary.