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once to consider
whether any
measure should be proposed to the Council, which would entail the consideration of such.
an increase in the Emoluments of an office which
has been,
ever since its creation,
almost a Sinecure.
The Couil sits regularly,
every Tuesday,
and its business
is generally disposed of at
carly
howr
in the afternoon. It is brice that occasionally, there is a pressure of business, and ·
that now and then, actions
are
are
brought in which Counsel
retained, the matter in
dispute involving difficulty
or some
ne
legal
question of
local interest. The Court in such exceptional cases holds
a special Sitting, but I _ apprehend that if a return were called for of the Sitting. of the Court, it would be found that the Judge
a
it on an
Judge does not
average
nore
than
bout boor 10 full days in the
year.
It
reasone an
the
among
for this very
gothers that with
nce of the Members
concurrence
the Profession Soriginally
of
ggested
an
extension of the